AUSTRALIAN PERFUMERY STUDIO
WHERE CURIOSITY ABOUT SCENT BECOMES CRAFT
Raw Materials, finished perfumes, and the knowledge to work with both.
For beginners and experienced formulators alike.
The Parfum Apothecary is an Australian-based studio specialising in fragrance materials for professional perfumers, aromatherapists, hobbyists, incense makers and lovers of scent. Discover raw ingredients and bases to finished fragrances and learning tools to support a thoughtful, hands-on approach to the art & experience of scent.
New to perfumery?
The DIY Classic Notes Kit provides a structured introduction to materials, fragrance families, and the perfume pyramid
The first rule of perfumery: never work neat.
Every professional perfumer works in dilution. It's not a beginner shortcut, it's the correct way to evaluate and blend aromatic materials. At full concentration, materials smell harsh, inaccurate, and often overwhelming. You're not smelling the material, you're smelling too much of it.
When you dilute a 5ml aromatic material to a 10% solution, you extend it to 50ml of working stock. That's five times the material to experiment with, evaluate, and blend, without wasting a drop of something precious and expensive.
For powder materials like ambroxan, calone, and vanillin, dilution isn't optional, it's essential. Powders need to be fully dissolved in ethanol before they can be accurately measured, evaluated, or incorporated into a formula. Without this step, you simply can't work with them properly.
This bundle gives you everything you need to start working correctly from the first session.
Some things you may be wondering
The Parfum Apothecary specialises in fragrance materials used in fragrance blending (perfume, cosmetics, incense), including essential oils, absolutes, resins, aroma molecules, accords and tinctures. Alongside materials, a small range of finished perfumes and educational resources is also offered.
The focus is on providing high-quality materials in small quantities, suitable for learning, experimentation and independent practice.
Products are suitable for professional and independent perfumers, aromatherapists, costmetic formulators, hobbyists, students, incense makers, artists and anyone interested in working more closely with scent.
No formal training is required. Many materials are used by beginners as well as experienced makers, and educational resources are provided to support learning at different stages.
The range includes both natural materials (such as essential oils, absolutes and resins) and synthetic aroma molecules or accords.
Both are standard in perfumery and incense work. Each product page clearly states the nature of the material being offered.
The Parfum Apothecary is based in Sydney, Australia and operates as a small, independently run studio.
Let customers speak for us
I just received my very first order and wanted to reach out and say how beautifully it was packaged.
Thank you so much, I am looking forward to making my own face oils.
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The delivery was earlier than expected, cute packaging and perfect smell!
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