Creating your own perfume: the workshop
Signature of Cinquième Sens
Just steps from the Eiffel Tower, spend three hours feeling, choosing, and creating. Guided by a perfumer-trainer, you transform your intuition into a personal formula and leave with 30 ml of a perfume that belongs only to you.
150 € per person
The workshop and your 30 ml bottle are included.
3 hours
The time to feel, try and work with a perfumer-creator
Paris 7th
18 rue de Monttessuy, 75007 Paris.
Two steps from the Eiffel Tower.
Your creation, 30 ml
Share the perfume you have created.
From intuition
to the formula
You explore 19 facets, identify what appeals to you and start to associate. With each try, the perfumer-formulator helps you understand what is at play and adjust the proportions. Gradually, your intuition becomes a balanced formula — without the expert choosing for you.
Why choose
the Atelier Création Parfum?
Creating begins with attention. You discover the facets one by one, observing the images and the emotions they evoke, then pinpointing what truly appeals to you. There is no one-size-fits-all answer: the perfumer-formulator helps you refine your perception and find your words. This initial exploration builds your personal palette and gives meaning to every choice that follows.
Starting from 19 facets, you build your formula step by step. The notes of the head, heart and base give structure; the tests allow you to adjust a proportion, strengthen a contrast or soften an accord. The method does not stifle your creativity: it provides the necessary guidelines to move from an intuition to a balanced composition, of which you remain fully responsible.
The perfumer-formulator accompanies you without ever creating on your behalf. He makes olfactory families accessible, draws your attention to the intensity or durability of a facet, and helps you read each test. You can ask questions, go back and understand the effect of an adjustment. This expert and warm presence puts you at ease, while allowing your sensitivity to guide the creation.
At the end of the three hours, your formula is put into a bottle. You leave with 30 ml of your creation: the trace of the materials felt, the decisions made and the balance found. On the skin and over time, the perfume continues to reveal itself. It tells as much about the journey undertaken during the workshop as the sensitivity you chose to express.
Just steps from the Eiffel Tower, you enter a house entirely dedicated to the sense of smell. Materials, tools, and professional guidance change the way we perceive fragrance: you no longer choose an existing fragrance; you discover the gesture that allows you to create your own. The setting invites you to slow down, trust your nose, and fully experience the pleasure of creating.
Rediscover the perfume you created
You created your perfume during a Cinquième Sens workshop and would like to wear it again? Renew your creation using the formula created during that experience.
Rediscover the accords you chose, the notes you associated them with, and the pleasure of wearing a personal creation. A way to prolong the memory of the workshop, long after the last drops of your first bottle have evaporated.
They lived
The experience
Extend the experience
The Olfactorium® Atelier Création brings together 19 accords and test bottles to allow you to continue to feel, compare, dose and formulate at home. If the experience inspires you to go further, the Initiation to Perfumery and the Language of Odors (Level 1) training from Cinquième Sens Institute helps you to structure your initial foundations.
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Ready to create your perfume?
Treat yourself to three hours of creation in Paris, steps from the Eiffel Tower, or give this break as a gift.