Perfume lab · Virginia Beach
Make your own fragrance in one evening
Two and a half hours at a perfume organ with 64 materials. You leave with a bottle of your fragrance and its formula. No experience needed.
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Prices
From $60 a person
Every format includes 2.5 hours at the organ with the perfumer, three trial versions, a bottle for each guest and the formula on file. Weeknight sessions, Mon–Thu at 6:30 PM, are 15% off. When you book, you pay a 30% deposit; the rest is paid at the studio.
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How it works
What to expect at your perfume session
No experience needed. Most of our guests are first-timers, and the perfumer explains everything from scratch. If you’re into niche perfume, ask about the raw materials.
The perfumer
Alice Graham, our perfumer, trained in Grasse. Weeknight sessions are run by her assistant, Theo.
One request: please don’t wear perfume on the day of your session, so it doesn’t get in the way of telling scents apart.
Gift cards
Gift a session at the organ
Pick a format and a bottle, then add their name and a short note. The gift card costs the same as the session, and the person you give it to picks the day. It’s valid for one year.
A 2.5-hour session at the organ with the perfumer, three trial versions, a bottle to take home and the formula on file.
By email, as an e-gift card, right after payment. It goes to you or straight to the person you’re giving it to. If it goes to them, you get a copy.
Each e-gift card has a code. When you book a session, enter the code at checkout, and the card pays for the session. If you pick another format or the bigger bottle, you pay the difference. The 15% weeknight discount doesn’t apply to gift cards.
E-gift cardDuo session
2.5 hours at the organ with a perfumer. Each guest makes a fragrance from scratch and takes home a bottle.
Gift card code:
WMWD-4K7Q
To book, enter it at checkout on wormwoodperfumelab.com.
For Olivia
“Happy birthday! Pick any day you like.”
From Sam
Palette
New this season
There are 64 materials on the organ, and once a season we swap out some of them. Five are new this fall: frankincense, smoke, wet stone, dry grass and cedar.
An aromatic Boswellia resin with a sweet, woody and resinous character.
FAQ
Questions guests ask
Yes, that’s how most of our guests start. The perfumer explains everything from scratch.
About 2.5 hours.
- Mon–Thu: 6:30 PM
- Fri: 3:00 PM and 6:30 PM
- Sat–Sun: 11:00 AM, 2:30 PM and 6:00 PM
Not if you cancel. The deposit is 30% of the price. You can move your booking to another date if you tell us at least 24 hours before your session. [TBD: how to move a booking: on the site or by texting Vera]
That almost never happens: you make three trial versions and pick the best one. We also keep your formula, so you can tweak it later.
Please don’t. It gets in the way of telling scents apart.
One year from purchase. After that, the card is no longer valid.
[TBD: street number] Cypress Ave, ViBe District. Go around back through the alley to the gray metal door with a sprig, buzz 12, and come up to the second floor.
Make your own fragrance, or give a session as a gift
From $60 a person, with a 1 oz bottle included.