Perfume Masterclass. Brisbane/Gold Coast

Samantha has more than3 0 years experience in the beauty industry working with artisan beauty and fragrance brands in Australia and overseas. She spent five years working in London with prestigious perfume houses such as Floris, Penhaligon's and Miller Harris, honing her craft with specialist perfume training in London and Paris.Upon her return to Australia in 2008, Samantha established The Powder Room. Today, The Powder Room is a thriving boutique consultancy, and Samantha spends her time educating people about the art of perfume through her Perfume Master Classes, training sales people how to sell perfume and consulting on all things beauty, fragrance and sensory branding related. She creates fragrance, candles and beauty products for fashion and beauty brands, sensory branding and atmospheric engineering for architectural spaces. Samantha's impressive roster of clients include Cathay Pacific, Bombay Sapphire, GoDaddy, Mecca Cosmetica, Toni Maticevski, Kerastase, Westfield shopping centres, Sand and Sky, Coco and Eve and The Bachelor Australia.Learn the art of perfumery from an industry professional with almost 3 decades experience with access to the finest raw materials from around the world.Please contact us on info@thepowder-room.com if you are interested in a class in your city or check out our upcoming events below.

Samantha Taylor - The Powder Room

Our Perfume Master Class is an introductory session into the intriguing world of perfume. Guests will learn of the origin of perfume, perfume throughout history, perfumers training and will be able to experience rare raw materials, the building blocks of perfume. Learn how to select a new fragrance for your self and how to apply and store fragrance.
 As part of the class guests will be able to create their own fragrance using the Olfactorium, a mini perfumers organ from our partner Cinquieme Sens in Paris, the global leader in perfume education. The Olfactorium contains perfume raw materials from the worlds leading perfume houses, and gives you the best possible tools to create your own master piece to take home!
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The workshop will cover:
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Origin of the word perfume
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History of perfume
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Who wore perfume throughout history 
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Perfumers training and how they create perfume
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Fragrance families – demonstrate with example of each
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Synthetic versus Natural materials
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Discuss origins of raw materials and guests have an opportunity to smell some examples
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Mass versus Niche perfume
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Fragrance wardrobe – Different fragrance for different seasons and occasions. 
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How to chose a fragrance that suits
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How to wear and store perfume
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Perfume creation. Guests will take home a small bottle of their creation.
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