A special blending session celebrating the scents of love, for beginners new to the art and craft of making perfume.
Love Smells: Perfume-Making for Beginners (late, In Person)
Open Session: First-timers only (in person)
Our longest-running program, open sessions present a guided introduction to working with scent – with hands-on blending time!
Open Session: Returning students only
An open lab for advanced beginner and intermediate perfumers. Bring your own materials or use ours, and blend with new friends.
Winter Smells: Blending Session (later, in person)
Join us for special blending session celebrating the scents of the season, for beginners new to the art and craft of making perfume.
Winter Smells: Blending Session (earlier, in person)
Join us for special blending session celebrating the scents of the season, for beginners new to the art and craft of making perfume.
Lab Work + Blending Session (in person)
Learn to make your first blends, and get an important introduction to lab work (including using a scale) in a special in-person session led by Saskia Wilson-Brown.
Gourmands: Perfume Blending Workshop for Beginners (in person)
A special blending session celebrating scents for the sweet-toothed, for beginners new to the art and craft of making perfume.
Eleven Week Materials Course, Module 3 (online)
Ashley Eden Kessler leads an eleven-week session exploring crucial materials in the perfumers’ organ: an indispensable first step in practicing perfumery and an opportunity to grow a technical familiarity with the materials.
Field Notes from Virginia: The Stabler-Leadbeater Apothecary Museum
IAO Board Member Rubia Chaudri and director Saskia Wilson-Brown recently visited Alexandria, Virginia, and went on a tour of a beautiful (and definitely haunted) historic apothecary. In this post, Saskia shares what they learned during their tour of the Stabler-Leadbeater Apothecary Museum.