The creative olfactory workshops
Cinquième Sens
In Paris, our workshops invite individuals, children and businesses to feel, understand and create.
Compose your perfume, discover the techniques of a perfumer or assemble a team: everyone leaves with landmarks, an emotion and something personal to tell.
A desire,
an experience
to choose
Whether you want to offer, create, learn or gather, choose the experience that suits you. Each workshop combines discovery, practice and the pleasure of doing, with a level and pace adapted to its audience.
Companies
Team olfactory building
Get your team out of their comfort zone: everyone senses, exchanges, and builds a shared experience.
Customized professional olfactory workshop
Seminar, launch, customer event: a format created based on your intention, your audience, and your location.
Workshops open to everyone
Creating your perfume (3 hours)
Explore 19 facets, compose your fragrance with a perfumer-formulator and leave with 30 ml of your creation.
Discovering the profession of perfumer (6 h)
Take the time to get into the perfume-maker’s gestures: feel the materials, build an intention, then formulate.
Happy Nose — children's perfume workshop
For 6–15 year olds, a joyful adventure of riddles, smells and formulations, all the way to their own perfume.
They created their perfume with us
Why
Cinquième Sens?
Cinquième Sens Atelier is aimed primarily at those who still know little about the world of perfume, but whose curiosity is only waiting to be aroused. It is entered through the pleasure, emotion and surprise of a scent that evokes a memory or opens up an imagination. Without any prerequisite, everyone discovers how olfaction dialogues with art, taste, design, heritage and our ways of living. By making it sensitive and accessible, Cinquième Sens contributes to giving it its full place among the great contemporary cultures.
A scent affects everyone differently, and that is precisely what brings people together. By sharing perceptions, memories, and preferences, the group discovers other ways to listen and choose together. Among friends, family, or colleagues, the workshop creates a spontaneous conversation, an experience lived together, and a shared memory that continues long after the session.
You don’t need to know how to speak perfume to create. Our training perfumers give you guidance, answer your questions, and help you adjust your choices without deciding for you. The method is reassuring; your sensitivity keeps the lead. Gradually, an intention becomes a formula, then a creation you can be proud of.
The sense of smell is not perceived in the same way at 8 years old, among friends, in the family or with colleagues. The rhythm, the vocabulary and the space given to play or creation evolve so that everyone can simply enter the experience. The essence remains the same: awakening curiosity, trusting your nose and leaving with the desire to look at perfume in a different way.
A workshop can remain a happy memory, or become the beginning of a deeper relationship with scents. Some will want to train their nose and acquire a vocabulary; others will want to understand what olfaction can bring to a profession, a place, or a brand. The three universes of Cinquième Sens then naturally overlap: Cinquième Sens Atelier awakens curiosity, Cinquième Sens Institute allows you to structure and deepen your knowledge, while Cinquième Sens Studio accompanies brand, product, or range projects. Each can thus prolong the experience without ever losing the pleasure and emotion of the first contact.
What they say about it
Offering one of the workshops
Offering a workshop is offering a real experience to live: the pleasure of feeling, understanding and creating, followed by a very personal olfactory memory to take away with you.
in the olfactory debate
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Guides and olfactory culture | 22.10.2025
Team building, client events and VIPs: how perfume can serve your brand
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Case study | 29.08.2025
What is an olfactory signature and why create your own?
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Training and profession | 20.06.2025
5 Techniques to better sell your perfumes in the store
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Extend the experience at home
Want to continue to feel and experiment at home? The Olfactorium® brings together a selection of raw materials in a pedagogical olfactory organ, for you to compare, memorize, and progress at your own pace.
Any questions about our workshops?
Are you hesitating between several formats, want to bring together a group or envision an experience for your company? Tell us about your desire: our team welcomes you and helps you choose simply.