The best perfume making classes in NYC

Learn how to craft your own custom scented candle in this immersive class, which is perfect for both groups and as a solo activity. You’ll learn the fundamentals of candle making and pour your own candle, designed to reflect your personal style.

Learning how to make candles can be a fun, soothing, and social experience, especially in the low-stakes environments offered by a sip and pour class. In these seminars, you and a group of friends and/or strangers will learn the basics of making candles as you socialize and enjoy an adult beverage of your choice. The class is primarily focused on the experience, but you will still learn the basics of candle making and leave the event with your own, personalized candle to take home with you. Like most sip events, this is a great way to spend a night out with friends or to meet new people.

If you love candles, but you either can’t get the scent quite right or you are worried about the kinds of potentially harmful chemicals that are used in many store-bought candles, one of these fragrant candle-making classes might be right for you. In these classes, you will get hands-on experience making candles using organic materials for everything from the fragrance to the wax (or the alternative base materials if you are feeling like learning how to make other candles). These classes are beginner-friendly, and you can customize the fragrances to your own desires, making it a great way to find the perfect scent to fill your house.

Join instructor Samantha in this supportive, beginner-friendly class, and learn how to craft a custom candle. You’ll work with 100% soy wax and toxin-free fragrances, and you’ll learn the candle-making process from start to finish. You’ll take home a candle with your own custom scent, and the knowledge to create more at home.

You can enroll your team members in a perfume blending workshop in which they can craft their own bespoke fragrances (and share their fragrances with co-workers). An expert perfume maker will guide your team members through the process of making all-natural perfumes and fragrances while teaching you about the history of the craft, which dates back to at least 3000 BCE. By the end of this event, everyone will have a unique perfume blend that they can take home with them, and they will have the knowledge they need to start pursuing more advanced perfume-making courses (or they can just show off their new skills to friends and family).

Give your employees the rare opportunity to work with a master chandler and create their own custom scented candles in this premium candle-making workshop. In this class, participants will be given all of the supplies they need to make two unique scented candles that they can take home with them to burn in their own homes or give as gifts. All the while, they’ll learn about the history of candle-making and have the chance to collaborate with their coworkers as they discover what unique kinds of candles everyone in the session makes.

Bring your team together for a fun evening of hands-on crafting as everyone gets the opportunity to make their own personal, artisanal bar of soap. Each participant will have the chance to select the coloring, scent, and botanicals included in their bar of soap, then an expert instructor will guide participants through the process of turning the disparate ingredients into a complete and useful bar of soap that they can take home with them. Whether your employees continue with their new soap-making skills or not, this course is sure to be a hit amongst your team members.

While enrolling in a home goods class like perfume making may seem like a specialized skill, there are numerous benefits that extend beyond the niche nature of this hobby. This is especially true in today’s culture, where consumers are health-conscious and focus on the ingredients in the products we use daily. Whether in the perfumes we apply directly to our skin, in the scent oils blended into candles, or the additives in our soaps, taking a perfume-making class provides an opportunity to learn about organic ingredients and how to create high-quality products free from potentially harmful chemicals and fillers. Also, mastering skills like perfume making helps you identify what types of scents work best for your skin and can help save costs over time compared to buying name-brand items with generalized scents that are produced for the masses. 

As you learn more about perfume making and gain more advanced skills, there’s the possibility of taking your craft from a hobby to a profitable small business. Many small creators sell their handmade products, like perfumes, soaps, and candles, at local craft fairs and swap meets, or open an online shop where they can sell their goods across the world. Custom-made, non-toxic perfumes make the perfect gift for family and friends and fit seamlessly into the thriving organic home goods market. Overall, learning the craft of perfume making is a journey of self-discovery and may pave the way to entrepreneurship.

If you are enrolling in a course to learn how to make perfume, soap, or candles, you’ll first need to decide on what specific artisanal skill you want to learn. While it may seem obvious, the process of making perfume isn’t really transferable to learning how to make soap, save for some of the knowledge of fragrances. You can’t just pick a course about making scented home goods and assume that all the skills you learn will be helpful if you follow a different path later on.

You’ll also want to consider whether you are attending the class as a one-time experience or learning how to create artisanal goods in your home. If you are just looking to spend an evening making your own candles to give as a gift, you don’t really have to consider this, but if you are interested in pursuing it as a hobby (or a side business), you’ll need to consider the start-up costs of building a home workstation and, when selecting the course, whether or not it focuses on providing introductory instruction, like Candle Making Pop Up! Experience, or in-depth study of a particular subject, like the Natural Perfume Workshop.