Perfume Making Workshop at Ho Chi Minh Cafe Apartment

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Duration1h 30m

GroupUp to 8

LanguagesEN · VI

Mobile ticketAccepted

Blend 30+ raw materials into a scent that's entirely yours, not a pre-made kit.

A perfume-making workshop in Ho Chi Minh's Cafe Apartment on Nguyen Hue Walking Street where you blend a signature scent from over 30 premium raw materials using real perfumery structure — top, heart, and base notes — guided in English by a professional perfumer. You take home your bottle with your formula stored so you can reorder the same scent later. The workshop runs 90 minutes and includes a customized label, bottle, bag, and a guide to wearing perfume.

The Experience

You walk into the workshop on Saigon's most crowded street and step away from it entirely. The space is small and unhurried, designed so you can actually think while you're working. A professional perfumer walks you through the fundamentals — how scents layer, how to build intention into a blend, the techniques that separate a real fragrance from a souvenir kit. No experience needed; the instruction meets you where you are.

The materials in front of you are the real thing: over 30 premium raw materials, each one chosen for its character. You're not mixing pre-made blends. Instead, you learn to construct a fragrance the way perfumers do — starting with top notes that hit first, moving through the heart that carries the story, and anchoring it all with base notes that linger. The workshop guides you toward a Vietnamese-inspired scent, drawing on the country's aromatic heritage: lotus (the national flower), pomelo blossom (used in ancestral hair rituals), and other notes tied to the place you're in. But the blend is yours to shape. You follow your nose, adjust as you go, and end up with something that smells like no one else's perfume.

At the end of 90 minutes, you have a bottle you made entirely yourself, tuned entirely to your taste. It comes with a customized label, a bag to carry it, and a professional guide to wearing it. The workshop stores your formula, so if you fall in love with the scent, you can reorder the exact same perfume months or years later — a genuinely personal souvenir, and one you'll actually keep wearing instead of tucking away.

What’s included

Your blended perfume in a bottle with a customized label.
a carrying bag.
a professional guide to wearing perfume.
English-language instruction from a professional perfumer.
storage of your formula for future reorders.

Good to know

Easy physical levelPublic transport nearbyNot for pregnant travelersNot for heart conditionsInfants must sit on laps

Operated by NOTE - THE SCENT LAB

Is this one for you?The workshop is 90 minutes of focused, hands-on work at a single table — no walking, no standing for long stretches, and no physical demands beyond the ability to sit comfortably and follow instruction. It suits anyone who wants to make something with their own hands and take home a result that's genuinely theirs, whether you're traveling solo, with a partner, or with a group of friends.