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Union City, NJ
Family-run atelier
Your scent, made live and saved forever.
Fragrance should feel like you. So we build yours on camera, one bottle at a time — then keep the formula so you can reorder it any time.
580+materials on the wall
943+formulas saved
10 yrsat the bench
Composed live, on camerathe thing a shelf can't do
In-stock creation
Walk in today. Walk out wearing it.
Come to the studio, build a scent from what's on the bench right now, and take your bottle home the same day — no waiting on a stream.
In person · same day
Your scent, made while you're here.
Using our in-stock core scents and materials, we blend and bottle right there with you. It's hands-on, it's quick, and it's yours before you leave.
- Explore the scent wallSmell your way through the in-stock core scents and materials on the bench.
- Blend it with JohnDial in top, heart, and base together until it's exactly you.
- Bottle it and take it homeWe fill, label, and save your formula — you walk out wearing it today.
Booked through Square — placeholder link, swap in the real booking URL.
Where to begin
Four ways in.
Create Your Scent
Compose a custom fragrance with John — live on stream or in the studio by appointment.
Create YoursReorder Your Scent
Already have a bottle? Your formula is on file. Bring it back in a couple of taps.
Reorder My ScentGift a Scent
A custom fragrance session or a core scent, wrapped and ready to give.
Shop to Gift
The real process
How a scent gets made.
This genuinely is a sequence — consult, compose, seal, save. Nothing here is a template.
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Consult
On stream or in the studio, we talk through what you want to smell like — notes, memories, the person you're buying for.
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Composed live
John builds it at the bench, on camera, drawing from 580+ materials and adjusting until it's right in front of you.
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Sealed & shipped
Your bottle is filled, labeled with its own batch code, and shipped from Union City.
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Saved forever
The exact formula goes into the database under your name — reorderable, resizable, reformulateable, any time.
Saved forever
Your formula doesn't expire when the bottle's done.
Most fragrances vanish the moment they run out. Yours won't.
Every scent John composes becomes a saved profile under your name — its own batch code, its notes, its history. When the bottle's empty, scan the label or look yourself up, and it comes right back.
- Look yourself up in Your Profile to bring any saved formula back.
- Reorder the exact formula — or size it up, or tweak a note.
- 943+ client formulas already saved and reorderable today.
Studio Perfumers · Scent Profile
Your Scent
Floral & Classic · composed live
Rose
Jasmine
Orris
+ your blend
Saved forever · Reorder anytime
The perfumer
Meet John Catana.
One trained perfumer, one bench, ten years of practice.
Studio Perfumers isn't a faceless house of "master perfumers." It's John — professionally trained, working from a real bench in Union City with his family beside him. Every bottle that ships is a formula he built himself.
TrainingProfessionally trained, composing by hand at the bench.
The bench580+ raw materials on the wall — naturals, aroma molecules, accords — composed by hand and by scale.
HomeUnion City, New Jersey. Family-run. Ten years in.
Core scents
Nine families to start from.
Ready-made scents live in the shop. Each one is also a doorway into a custom build — a place to point when we're composing yours.
Floral
Rounded, romantic, and timeless — the shape most people call “perfume.”
Shop BloomFresh & Citrus
Bright, clean, and sparkling — the top of a summer morning.
Shop FrescoGreen
Crisp and leafy — cut stems, herbs, and fresh air.
Browse the shopFruity
Juicy and playful — ripe fruit with a little sweetness.
Shop LusciousGourmand
Warm and edible — vanilla, caramel, coffee, and cream.
Shop DominanceWoody
Warm, resinous, and grounded — the low notes that stay on skin.
Shop WoodyAnimalic
Deep, skin-like, and magnetic — musk, leather, and warmth.
Shop Coffee Leather OudMarine
Cool and open — salt air, water, and driftwood.
Browse the shopAromatic
Herbal and clean — lavender, sage, and cool spice.
Shop Purewood
Scent profiles, explained
How fragrance works — the friendly version.
No experience needed. Here's just enough to know what you like when you sit down with John.
No experience needed
A scent profile is simply the shape of your fragrance — which notes you smell first, which ones settle in, and which ones linger for hours.
Every scent moves in three layers, from the first spritz to the end of the day. You don't need to name a single ingredient — just tell us what feels like you, and we translate it at the bench.
Think of it like a song: the opening grabs you, the middle carries it, and the base is what stays in your head afterward.
Ready to try? Create yoursTop notesthe first impression · bright, fleeting (5–15 min)
Heart notesthe character · what it becomes (1–2 hrs)
Base notesthe memory · warm, long-lasting (hours)
Fresh & Citrus
You like clean, bright, wakes-you-up scents.
Floral & Classic
You lean romantic, timeless, unmistakably "perfume."
Oceanic & Aquatic
You want cool, airy, open-window freshness.
Woody & Amberous
You're drawn to warm, cozy, stays-close scents.
Ways to wear it
Everything we carry.
The same custom formula, bottled the way you like to wear it — plus what's coming next, and our Cielo Mystic line. Everything in stock lives in the shop.
In stock now
Shipping today · fragrance formatsEau de Parfum
100ml EDP
The full bottle — for the scent you reach for every day and want to last.
See price in shop
Shop 100ml
Eau de Parfum
50ml EDP
The everyday size — plenty to live with, easy to keep on the dresser.
See price in shop
Shop 50ml
Eau de Parfum
30ml EDP
A smaller pour — perfect for trying a new scent or gifting one.
See price in shop
Shop 30ml
Roll-on oil
Oil Rollers
A close-to-skin oil that travels in a pocket — dab it on wherever you are.
See price in shop
Shop rollers
Coming soon
In development · not yet buyable
New formats
Lotions soon
Soaps soon
A Studio Perfumers line
New line
Cielo Mystic
Our own distinct line under Studio Perfumers — hand-blended perfume oils, worn as a roll-on.
Annointment
Hand-blended perfume oil · roll-on
Archangel Michael
Botanical perfume oil · roll-on
More scents in the Cielo Mystic line are on the way.
Two ways to create
Build it live, or book the studio.
Same perfumer, same bench, same formula saved at the end. Pick the room you'd rather do it in.
Whatnot
Drop into a live show, claim a slot, and watch your scent composed on camera in real time. The most fun way to do it — and the one only we can offer.
- Composed live, on camera, while you watch
- Scheduled stream times — no appointment needed
- Formula saved to your name before it ships
By appointment
Prefer to do it in person, one-on-one? Book a session in Union City and compose your scent with John at the bench.
- Private session, one-on-one with the perfumer
- Booked through Square — pick a time that works
- Same database, same "saved forever" formula
Wholesale & private label
Your brand, our bench.
Building a line for a shop, a hotel, an event, or your own label? Here's how a project comes together with us.
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Discovery
Tell us your brand, the vibe you're after, your audience, timeline, and budget. We start from what you're trying to say.
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Scent development
John composes custom options at the bench, drawing from 580+ materials, until the direction feels right for you.
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Sampling & refine
You test the samples in the real world and we adjust — notes up, notes down — until it's exactly right.
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Production
Filled, labeled, and bottled to your spec — EDP, oil rollers, and more formats as your line grows.
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Saved forever & reorder
Your formula stays on file under your brand — scale it up or reorder any time, and it's identical every run.
Start a wholesale project
Minimums, formats, and pricing are worked out per project — tell us what you're planning and let's talk.