Established 2011

Girls trip ideas › Perfume making

Perfume making girls trips, a scent of your own

Every one of you can name her signature scent faster than her own postcode, and the girls could pick it out of a crowded room. A perfume making workshop is choosing, blending and bottling one of your own. Pick the class, pick your city, and get this girls trip out of the group chat.

Pick your cityPick your city
What it is
A perfume blending workshop
Make it a weekend
Pick your city, pick a weekend
Cities
Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Gold Coast
Weekends from
$399 per person, somewhere to stay included
Friends in pyjamas and towel turbans getting ready together

Why perfume making works for a girls trip

Everyone has opinions, and most of them are wrong.

Perfume gets chosen by holding out a wrist for someone to sniff. Every group has the friend whose scent you’d know anywhere, and the one who has worn the same bottle since school.

Making something side by side does something a dinner booking can’t. Hands busy, noses working overtime, and the real conversation drifting in between sniffs.

And every scent ends up a little like the woman who made it. The table always has notes, in both senses.

A bottle that smells like the weekend, every time you wear it.

What a perfume making workshop is like

Sniff, blend, bottle.

A perfume making workshop usually means a table of scent notes to smell and choose from, someone showing the group how a fragrance is built, and a small bottle each to take home.

  1. A table of little bottles.

    Scent notes lined up, and the first ten minutes spent sniffing, wincing and claiming favourites.

  2. Building it, drop by drop.

    Lighter notes, deeper notes and a lot of wafting a test strip under someone else’s nose for a second opinion.

  3. Every scent smells like her.

    Some go fresh and clean, some go full evening. The table argues about all of it.

  4. Two friends hugging in a kitchen

    Then make it a weekend.

    Book it, then pick a girls weekend in your city, with somewhere to stay, the food, the drinks and where to next, already in an order that works.

Get this girls trip out of the group chat

Pick a weekend, pick your city.

Each is a whole girls weekend with somewhere to stay, the food, the drinks and where to next already in an order that works. Each city’s page has every other girls weekend there.

Prices are from, per person, for a minimum of six. Accommodation can cost more on busy dates such as school holidays, so we confirm the price for your exact dates.

The girls pulling faces over drinks at a busy bar

Melbourne

The girls are thriving. Naturally

Garden Party Girls Weekend

Your terrarium workshop comes to your city apartment with an artist host, then bubbly and share plates by the river and cocktails among the palms at a rooftop garden bar.

From $399 per person, minimum of six

What’s included

  • Overnight accommodation in a chic city apartment
  • A terrarium workshop at your apartment with your artist host
  • A tiny garden each to take home
  • Riverside dinner with bubbles on arrival and share plates
  • A bottle of bubbly at a rooftop garden bar
  • A discounted cocktail menu

See every detail of Garden Party Girls WeekendCompare Melbourne’s art and craft weekends

See Melbourne girls weekends
Friends laughing over glasses of sparkling at a cosy wine bar

Sydney

Light the good one

Candles and Catch Ups

Candle making in a private studio, BYO, then a bottle of sparkling at a wine bar and dinner up on a rooftop.

From $549 per person, minimum of six

What’s included

  • Overnight accommodation in a chic city apartment
  • Candle making in a private studio with your host
  • A scented candle each to take home
  • Reserved seating and a bottle of bubbly at a wine bar
  • Rooftop dinner with bubbles on arrival and share plates

See every detail of Candles and Catch Ups

See Sydney girls weekends
Friends potting tiny succulents into glass terrariums around the workshop table

Brisbane

Botanical babes, in full bloom

Botanical Babes Weekend

A terrarium workshop at a long table with your own host, dinner and bubbly in a dining room dripping with greenery, then a bottle of bubbly under a giant pink flamingo.

From $479 per person, minimum of six

What’s included

  • Overnight accommodation in a chic city apartment
  • A terrarium workshop with your own host
  • A terrarium each in its own carry bag
  • Bubbles on arrival and share plates in an art deco dining room
  • Reserved seating and a bottle of bubbly at a tropical garden bar

See every detail of Botanical Babes Weekend

See Brisbane girls weekends
Two friends in white robes getting ready at the bathroom mirror

Gold Coast

Pour the wax, spill the tea

Hot Wax And Hot Goss

Your candle making host comes to the apartment with signature fragrances and unlimited toppings, then bubbly and share plates on a rooftop deck, and brunch at the door the next morning.

From $449 per person, minimum of six

What’s included

  • Overnight accommodation in a chic coastal apartment
  • A candle making workshop at your apartment
  • Signature fragrances and unlimited toppings
  • A soy candle each in a gift box
  • Reserved seating, bubbles on arrival and share plates at a rooftop beach club
  • A brunch platter delivered the next morning

See every detail of Hot Wax And Hot Goss

See the Gold Coast girls weekends

What kind of girls group perfume making suits

Every very particular nose.

It suits the friend with a perfume for every mood, and the one who’s worn the same bottle for twenty years.

Friends doing their makeup together in a lounge with an ocean view

The ones who want to make something.

Hands busy, nobody performing, and a keepsake at the end.

The scent people.

The ones who can name every candle in the shop.

The group with a backlog.

The real conversation drifts in between sniffs.

Every age at the table.

From the twenty somethings to the friends who’ve been to every birthday since school.

A milestone birthday.

A scent that brings the weekend back every time.

Friends from different chapters.

Nothing breaks the ice like an argument about vanilla.

What pairs well with perfume making

Weekends with the same make something feel.

More ideas to stack onto the same weekend, each with its own page.

Candle making

Choose a signature fragrance, pour your own candle. Its own weekend in Sydney and on the Gold Coast.

More on candle making

Terrarium making

A tiny garden each, in glass. Its own weekend in Melbourne, Brisbane and on the Gold Coast.

More on terrarium making

Floristry

Fresh stems and a bouquet each.

More on floristry

Paint and sip

A canvas each and something to sip. Its own weekend in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane.

More on paint and sip

Clay and pottery

Hands in clay. Its own weekend in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane.

More on clay and pottery

Hat burning

A felt fedora each, designed by you. Its own weekend in Brisbane.

More on hat burning

A facial

The other kind of glow. Its own weekend in Melbourne and on the Gold Coast.

More on facials

A pamper session

Manicures at a beauty bar, or a pamper team at your apartment. Its own weekends in every city.

More on pamper sessions

Every creative girls trip idea

Good to know about perfume making for a girls trip

The small things the girls will ask about.

Making it a weekend

Book it separately, then pick a girls weekend in your city.

Skill level

None needed for a typical workshop. Your nose does the work.

The weekends above

Each has a host and everything you need, and a keepsake to take home.

Photos

Bottles up, everyone in. What goes on socials is the group’s call.

Perfume making girls trips, at a glance

What it is
A perfume blending workshop: scent notes to choose from and a bottle each to take home.
Make it a weekend
Pick your city and a girls weekend, then book it separately.
Group size
From six of you. Fewer? Tell us how many when you check your dates.
Price
The weekends start from $399 per person, with somewhere to stay included. Accommodation can cost more on busy dates.
Who runs it
My Ultimate Girls Trip, part of My Ultimate, female founded in 2011.

Real girls trip reviews

In their own words, exactly as written.

Two women in matching pyjamas and towel turbans with spritzes in a hotel room

My friends response when I sent the option through was literally "yep this is us".

That was all I needed.

Sarah, 28
Three women in pyjamas piled on a bed together, cuddling

Everyone kept saying I'd nailed it.

Obviously I told them it was all me.

Sorry My Ultimate.

Emma L., 32

Read more girls trip reviews

My Ultimate has been creating unforgettable girls weekends since 2011, so we know a thing or two about bringing the girls together.

  • 2011Female founded and still founder-led
  • Thousandsof My Ultimate celebrations every year
  • 4.7on Google
  • IATAregistered and accredited under TIDS
  • All four citieswith a make something weekend
  • Proudmajor corporate sponsor of Share the Dignity
Friends in a group hug by a window at sunset with spritzes

A workshop, or a whole girls weekend

Make something, then keep going.

Plenty of groups book a workshop and have a lovely couple of hours. Then everyone’s on the footpath with a little bottle, working out where dinner is and who’s heading home.

A My Ultimate weekend is the whole thing in one booking: somewhere to stay, something to do built in, the food, the drinks and where to next, so the day turns into a weekend together.

Somewhere to stay, already in it.One living room for the getting ready, the debrief and the morning coffee.
One front door at the end of the night.Everyone heads home to the same place.
You’re in the photo.In the photo with the girls, not organising it.

Meet Nyree, who started My Ultimate in 2011

Send it to the girls

In your words, ready to paste.

Girls trip idea: a make something weekend. Candle making with a scent of our own, or terrarium making, then dinner and drinks, with somewhere to stay for all of us.

From $399pp. Who’s in?

https://www.myultimate-girls-trip.com.au/perfume-making-girls-trip

Planning a surprise? Check who’s in the chat before you paste.

Pick your city

Where are we going?

Pick your city to see every girls weekend there, prices and all. Then get the whole trip out of the group chat.

Four friends sipping rosé in a vineyard at duskMelbourneGirls weekends from $379See every Melbourne girls weekendFour friends on the bow of a boat raising glasses towards the Sydney Harbour BridgeSydneyGirls weekends from $399See every Sydney girls weekendA city skyline and river at golden hour, boats moored belowBrisbaneGirls weekends from $379See every Brisbane girls weekendFour friends laughing over drinks on an oceanfront deck at sunsetGold CoastSee the weekendsSee every Gold Coast girls weekend

Know what the girls want? Start a Melbourne girls trip wishlist, or check available dates for your group or call or chat with us on 1300 339 734.

Perfume making girls trip questions

Asked a lot, answered here.

Still deciding? See what pairs well with perfume making, or pick your city and see the weekends.

Can we make perfume on our girls trip?

Yes, book it separately and pick a girls weekend in your city to build the trip around. A good fit: the candle making weekends in Sydney and on the Gold Coast, where everyone chooses a scent and pours her own candle, and the terrarium weekends in Melbourne and Brisbane.

What happens at a perfume making workshop?

Usually a table of scent notes to smell and choose from, someone showing the group how a fragrance is built, and a small bottle each to take home.

Do you need any experience?

Not for a typical workshop. Your nose does the work.

How much are the weekends?

The candle making and terrarium weekends shown start from $399 per person, with somewhere to stay included. Accommodation can cost more on busy dates such as school holidays, so we confirm the price for your exact weekend when you check availability.

Is a make something weekend good for a birthday?

A lovely one. Everyone leaves with a keepsake from the weekend.

How many of us do we need?

Six for each of the weekends. Fewer than that? Let us know how many of you there are. We cater for groups of many sizes.