The hens perfume house
Every girl blends and bottles her own. The bride’s gets a name.
My Ultimate Hens makes hens parties in six cities. In Melbourne, perfume making is part of our ready-made hens days; everywhere else, it’s on request.
She gets the first spritz and a bottle with her name on it. You get the thank-yous in the group chat, with your name on them.
01 the first spritz
A table of little amber bottles, a drink in hand, and every girl insisting she knows exactly what the bride should smell like.
Hens perfume making with My Ultimate Hens means a fragrance expert showing the group how a perfume builds from the top to the base, then everyone blends and bottles her own perfume to take home, with cocktails, share plates and a VIP booth built around it. It’s make your own perfume, with her girls at the table and the night already booked.
Like every good perfume, the day has three layers. Tap one to jump ahead.
Arrive: your own private room, cocktail in handA round of cocktails lands as you walk in. Aprons on, because nobody wants perfume oil on the good dress.
The sniffing, one bottle at a timeYour fragrance expert has the whole perfume lab set up and walks the group through each scent on its own. The room splits into camps almost instantly.
Top to base, then everyone blendsYour expert shows you how a top note, a heart note and a base note play together, and the real mixing begins. Watching the bride build hers, with a table of her girls leaning in, is the moment of the afternoon.
Bottled, labelled, yoursEach perfume goes into a glass bottle with a custom label and a personalised scent profile card, and every bottle comes home with you.
Then the day keeps goingShare plates and a bonus cocktail for your hen, then a velvet VIP booth with a surprise bottle of bubbly for her. See the whole day.That’s how our ready-made Melbourne perfume days run: two hours of private room for the blending, then the night. Other cities and formats are built to order, so the shape can change.
“The paint and sip, this was great, a lot of fun and everyone enjoyed themselves, even the ones that "can't " paint. Highly recommend!”
Tayla’s crew, BrisbaneA different class, the same truth: nobody needs a “good nose” either. The expert steers, and the wildest blend at the table becomes the story of the day.
02 the heart
Same idea, five moods. Tap the one that sounds like her and it comes with you to the form at the bottom, as one to check for her city and date.
The classic. A fragrance expert, a table of scents, a private room and a cocktail on arrival. Everyone smells her way through the shelf, learns how the top, heart and base fit together, then blends her own.
What goes home: her perfume in a glass bottle with a custom label, plus a scent profile card.
Essential oils and botanicals instead of a classic perfume base, usually blended into a little roll-on. It’s the softer, greener cousin, and it suits the wellness bride and the girls who like to know exactly what’s in the bottle.
What goes home: usually a roll-on of her own blend, in a scent nobody else on earth is wearing.
The wedding-world trend: a styled bar of bottles set up at your accommodation or venue, where everyone mixes her own between drinks. No getting anyone out the door, which the morning-after crew will appreciate.
What goes home: each girl’s own mini blend. Set-up, timing and space depend on where you’re staying, so we check it first.
Some brides walk out with the scent they wear down the aisle. Some just walk out with a very good story. Either way, every bridesmaid takes one home too.
Our Melbourne perfume days open with a round of cocktails the minute you walk in. Prefer it daytime and dainty? A perfume class with high tea or a glass of bubbles is the one to ask for when mum and the aunties are coming.
What goes home: the perfume, and the photo of the bottles lined up next to the drinks.
Thinking further out? Solid perfume, cologne for the groom, or a sound bath with a scent session for the wellness crowd: just ask. And in Sydney, our candle making hens has everyone blending her own signature scent into a candle she pours herself. If the bride loves the house smelling as good as she does, that one’s for her.
Source: our own search research, Google Trends and Google Keyword Planner, Australia. Perfume has overtaken candle making as the scent class people look for, and the perfume bar is the trend coming next.
03 her wedding scent
The rings are sorted, the dress is sorted. Now she gets to choose what the day smells like.
If she wants to, the bride can wear the perfume she blends at her hens on the wedding day, so walking down the aisle smells like the best afternoon she had with her girls.
Some brides find their wedding scent at the table. Some find a perfume that smells exactly like the bridesmaid who wouldn’t stop adding vanilla, and wear it to brunch forever. And every bridesmaid bottles her own, which is the bridesmaid perfume gift all over TikTok right now, made by hand with a story attached.
Tip for the organiser: get the photo of the bride holding her finished bottle up to the light, and keep her scent profile card somewhere safe. If she falls in love with her blend, ask us and we’ll find out what the expert can do about more of it.
Add her girls and watch the shelf fill. Screenshot it for the group chat.
Eau de the bride, and a bottle for every one of her girls. Blended at her hens.
04 the top
Three taps and you’ll know which scent family sounds most like her, with a dress code, a jug and three songs to match. Change it any time. Screenshot it for the group chat.
1. Her perfect Saturday morning
2. What she wears to a party
3. Her drink order
Pick one answer in each row.
For the bride with fresh flowers on the kitchen bench every week, and opinions about peonies.
Bergamot on top, peony and rose at the heart, a soft musk underneath.
Florals and pastels, a flower in every girl’s hair, the bride in white.
The Rose Garden: rosé, lychee and a whisper of rosewater. Scale it for the group.
Stop and smell the bride.
Flowers, Miley Cyrus. Kiss from a Rose, Seal. Lavender Haze, Taylor Swift.
For the bride who is first to suggest a swim and last to remember sunscreen.
Lemon and grapefruit on top, neroli at the heart, clean vetiver underneath.
White linen, a pop of lemon yellow, sunnies on heads. The bride in head-to-toe white.
The Top Note: prosecco, elderflower and soda over a lot of ice. Scale it for the group.
Zest friends, forever.
Walking on Sunshine, Katrina and the Waves. Good as Hell, Lizzo. Levitating, Dua Lipa.
For the bride who orders dessert before she has seen the mains, and shares none of it.
Juicy pear on top, orange blossom at the heart, vanilla and tonka underneath.
Pink, all of it. Heart sunnies are not negotiable.
The Vanilla Pear Fizz: pear juice, vanilla vodka, bubbles on top. Scale it for the group.
Sweet, with a hint of trouble.
Sugar, Maroon 5. Watermelon Sugar, Harry Styles. Espresso, Sabrina Carpenter.
For the bride with a favourite candle and a favourite red, who will tell you about both.
Fig on top, cedar at the heart, sandalwood and amber underneath.
Earth tones, gold jewellery, one great blazer. The bride in cream.
The Amber Hour: bourbon, apple and a cinnamon stick, built long. Scale it for the group.
Warm, woody and worth the wait.
Dreams, Fleetwood Mac. Valerie, Amy Winehouse. Golden, Harry Styles.
For the bride who is last off the dance floor and still first to brunch.
Blackcurrant on top, tuberose at the heart, a dark musk underneath.
Black, sequins and a red lip. The bride in white, obviously.
The After Dark: tequila, blackcurrant cordial, lime and soda. Scale it for the group.
A hint of mischief that lasts all night.
Toxic, Britney Spears. Padam Padam, Kylie Minogue. Dangerous Woman, Ariana Grande.
For the bride who has known what her wedding would feel like since she was nine.
Neroli on top, jasmine and orange blossom at the heart, white musk underneath.
The bride in white, everyone else in one soft colour, pearls welcome.
Champagne. No garnish, no fuss, no further questions.
Eau de Bride.
Love Story, Taylor Swift. Marry You, Bruno Mars. Crazy in Love, Beyoncé.
For dreaming only: every fragrance expert keeps their own shelf, so the scents on the day may differ from these. The jugs, captions and songs are free ideas from us, not part of any package.
05 will it suit our lot?
The classiest thing on the hens menu that still ends with eight girls spritzing each other in a booth.
She has a bathroom shelf of bottles and an opinion on every one of them. This is her favourite hobby, with her favourite people, and a bottle at the end with her name on it.
She wants a beautiful day, not a messy one. Perfume making is calm, clever and very pretty on camera, and the natural version suits the girl who lives on green juice.
Nothing to perform, nothing to wear that makes anyone nervous, and mum will declare hers “very French” within ten minutes. It works for 25 and 65 at the same table.
The class doesn’t depend on drinking. Tell us who’s skipping the cocktails when you tell us about her, and we’ll look at every stop with them in mind. Expecting? Say so then too, so the fragrance expert knows before the day.
It’s impossible to stay strangers while you’re holding a scent strip under someone’s nose. By the second bottle, the uni friends and the work friends have formed an alliance.
Our ready-made Melbourne perfume days start at six girls, bride included. Smaller than that, or in another city? Tell us your number and we’ll build it around you.
“Hi Chloe, I wanted to thankyou for the amazing night you put together for Emma's hens night. It was an absolute pleasure dealing with everybody from yourselves in the office. My daughter and all the guests has a fantastic time, so again, thankyou. Kind Regards Kerry-lee”
Kerry-lee, the bride’s mum, BrisbaneA mum who booked her daughter’s hens with us.
“Honestly, I was nervous about the price point of going out as we couldn't decide if we should just have it at my house and nearly talked myself out of it twice. Josh who helped me find our package remembered I'd mentioned during my first chat that we weren't sure if a drinks package would be good value for us because not many of us are big drinkers, and he agreed with me and found a package at a lower price point so I really appreciated that and felt really looked after. He actually cared about us finding a package that suited us which I really appreciated. Really overjoyed with the outcome and so was Rachel the bride and her very fussy mum as well. Thank you to the whole team but especially to Josh.”
Jennifer, on GoogleA crew of light drinkers, and a very fussy mum.
“I booked a hens with this company for my cousin and didn't actually know any of the other girls attending, which can sometimes be a bit awkward when being the organiser, but it ended up being the best hens I've ever been to even if I do say so myself haha
Emily Osmond, on GoogleShe booked a pamper party for a cousin, and didn’t know a single other guest.
We did one of the pamper party packages with the accomodation for some of us as well and it was really good. If you're reading this and wondering whether you should book the package… just do it. It was soooooo good!”
06 the price on the label
One price per person for the whole day, not a class fee plus everything you still have to sort.
Most My Ultimate Hens perfume days in Melbourne sit between about $290 and $330 per person, for the class, cocktails on arrival, share plates, her bonus cocktail and a VIP booth with a bottle of bubbly. The bigger the group, the lower it tends to go.
Each package has a minimum and no maximum, and the bride counts. In Sydney, Brisbane, the Gold Coast, Perth and Adelaide, perfume making is on request: tell us about her and we price it for your group and your date.
07 the label on the bottle
Everything the group will ask, on one label.
08 it happened
No perfume reviews in our bank yet, so here’s what organisers said about hens built the same way: a class, a table, a night.
Real My Ultimate Hens days. Not all of them perfume days. All of them hers.
“Good morning Everyone, Happy Tuesday! I just wanted to touch base after my weekend away and say THANK YOU! Myself and all my Girls had an absolutely amazing time with many laughs and memories. Our accommodation was great and I cannot recommend enough your venue on Darling Harbour - I will certainly be going back there, the food was lovely, the cocktails strong and the music was fantastic - Loved it!
Jaime, SydneyAn in-room pamper at the accommodation: the way a perfume bar at the hens house works too.
The ladies who came to our room for the pamper experience were beautiful, so professional and provided an incredible service, everyone LOVED it and again I cannot recommend them enough. It was so great that everyone was able to be in the room together, chat and have a few drinks during this time - I would highly recommend other groups consider having the in room experience over going to a day spa as it is so relaxed. Thank you again to everyone for all your help, taking the stress out of everything and arranging a fantastic weekend. Jaime :) x”
“The most amazing experience dealing with My Ultimate Hens. They organised an incredible weekend filled with numerous activities. From flower crown making, to cocktail making to cruising around in a fire engine, just to name a few, with all the girls. My ultimate you went above and beyond and I can't stop talking about your company. Thank you!!!”
Cassie Barker, on GoogleA hands-on making class inside a whole weekend.
“Thank you to the amazing My Ultimate team especially to Tash for helping me plan the best Hens for my sister. It was planned so perfectly more than I have expected! Tash and her team are so helpful and very informative and they go above and beyond to assist me with everything. Our Hen had a blast and I am absolutely grateful as I couldn't have made it possible without your help. Hands down the best Hens organiser in Sydney! I will highly recommend you ladies to everyone! Love your work! xxx”
Misheila’s sister, SydneyA sister planning the bride’s hens.
The same people who have been throwing hens since 2011, now with a fragrance expert at the table.
Sydney's first Hen-Tathlon, with 2Day FM
The Jimmy & Nath Show with Emma crashed five My Ultimate Hens parties across Sydney in one day
Female founded in 2011, and still founder-led
So much has changed over the years, but what has not changed is the essence of it all: the laughter, the sparkle, the connection, and that iconic moment to stop and celebrate the friendships that raise and define us.
Nyree FOUNDER to news.com.au on My Ultimate's 15th anniversary
09 her blend
Pick one scent from each layer and her label writes itself. Send it to the group and watch the arguments start.
The first thing you smell, and the first thing to go. Bright and quick.
Who she really is, once the first spritz settles.
The bit that lingers on her wrist at midnight.
Eau de
Bride
Her hens, blended by her girls
Bright, pretty and soft. Smells like a very good day.
Eau de Bride: bergamot, peony and white musk. Bright, pretty and soft. Who is coming to make the real thing?
A blend card for fun. The real one gets made on the day, with an expert and a shelf of scents.10 before you go
The one day she should leave her signature scent at home. We know. We’re sorry. It’s worth it.
Everyone in the colour of her scent family: blush for the garden party, black for out till late, white linen for the sunshine one.
Dress code: we’re all in one colour from her scent family, the bride is in white, and nobody wears perfume. Trust the process.
Your own outfit, plus one thing that matches: a pearl, a satin bow, a gold necklace with her initial.
Dress code: wear what you love, add one pearl or one bow, and skip the perfume. You’re about to make some.
Everyone in whatever, the bride in a white satin set and a veil, so she’s the first thing every photo sees.
Dress code: come as you are. The bride is in white. Fragrance-free, please, we’re working.
11 the jugs
Three jugs that taste the way her scent family smells, and one for the girls who aren’t drinking. Tell us how many, we do the maths.
For the garden party bride.
For the sunshine one.
For the dessert-first bride.
For the non-drinkers, the drivers and the bump.
Our suggestions for pre-drinks or a BYO room, not part of any package. Recipes are a starting point: taste as you go. The Amber Hour and After Dark in the vibes above are made the same way, one shot of spirit per girl, topped long.
12 at the table
Four challenges that turn a table of scent strips into the loudest table in the room. Copy the rules into the group chat.
Once the bottles are full
At dinner
For the labels
The soft one
Free ideas from us, not part of any package. Play them before or after the class, so the fragrance expert gets your full attention while they’re talking.
13 the base
A class ends at the door. This is where the day keeps going, and nobody has to find a dinner table for nine on a Saturday.
Add-ons for this shape: a three-hour booth with two drinks each, a two-hour drinks package in your room, a topless waiter in your private room, or custom hens cookies with her name on them.
We shape this one around your city and date, so tell us what she’d love when you tell us about her.
We set the bar up to suit wherever you’re staying.
14 what we add
A perfume class is about two hours, often with a glass of bubbles and a few nibbles, sometimes BYO. A hens is the whole day it sits in.
Booking a perfume class on its own is a lovely afternoon, and plenty of crews do exactly that. A My Ultimate Hens perfume day is the same blending with the rest of her hens joined up around it.
And the best bit: you’re at the table with your nose in a scent strip, not on your phone sorting the next booking.
“I was a MOH for the first time and feeling the pressure because she is not into the tacky hens thing at all. What I liked most was that Britt actually understood the difference between 'things to do on a hens' and planning a good hens that felt like an actual celebration not a bunch of bookings together because obviously I could have booked a cocktail class and dinner or whatever myself obviously. I only realised after that I just wouldn't have known which combination would suit our group, what order to do it all in or half the little details and personalised touches for the bride that made the whole night what it was. So there's definitely more thought behind these packages than I realised before booking and she absolutely loved it and apparently I'm now the designated event organiser of the group. Would 100% use them again and a big thankyou to Britt and Maddi as well for everything that went into making it so good!”
Vanessa S, on GoogleA first-time maid of honour, for a bride who isn’t into the tacky hens thing.
“Our night flowed really well, no stuffing around and most importantly I got to actually enjoy my friends hens instead of playing event manager all night because everything had already been thought through. The timing, what was included, where we'd go next, what suited the 9 girls we had and honestly, I didn't properly realise how much difference that would make until the actual night itself. It felt like a proper event rather than us just meeting at a few places Han loved every part of it and even said how did you do and find all this?? So that was the review from her I needed and I would use them again in a heartbeat!”
Jess Mitchelson-Hall, on GoogleAn organiser who got to be at the hens, not run it.
Same blending, same bottle to take home. Ready to see what’s in her city? Pick her city.
16 her city
Ready-made in Melbourne, and on request everywhere else we run hens. Pick hers.
Three perfume days for crews of 6, 8 and 9 and up: a private room in the CBD, share plates, then a velvet VIP booth.
Melbourne hens partiesBuild her Melbourne wishlistPerfume making built for your group and your date. Sydney also has our candle making hens, where everyone blends her own signature scent.
Sydney hens partiesBuild her Sydney wishlistPerfume making built for your group and your date, with the rest of her Brisbane day around it.
Brisbane hens partiesBuild her Brisbane wishlistPerfume making built for your group and your date, with the rest of her Gold Coast day around it.
Gold Coast hens partiesBuild her Gold Coast wishlistPerfume making built for your group and your date, with the rest of her Perth day around it.
Perth hens partiesBuild her Perth wishlistPerfume making built for your group and your date, with the rest of her Adelaide day around it.
Adelaide hens partiesBuild her Adelaide wishlist17 asked and answered
The ones the group chat will ask you, answered before they do. Anything about booking in general lives on our FAQ page.
No experience and no “good nose” needed. The fragrance expert walks everyone through each scent and how a perfume builds from top to base, then helps each girl blend her own, so the first-timer and the bride with forty bottles at home both walk out with something they love.
Our ready-made Melbourne perfume days give you two hours of private room for the blending. After that the day keeps going: share plates at your reserved table, then a two-hour VIP booth. In other cities, tell us how long you’d like it and we shape the day around it.
Every guest takes home her own perfume in a glass bottle with a custom label, plus a personalised scent profile card that captures what she made. Want to know the bottle size before the day? Your package consultant has it.
It works for both. Our Melbourne perfume days start with the blending in the afternoon and carry on into a VIP booth at night. A daytime version with high tea or bubbles is on request, and it’s the one to pick if noses and mum are the priority.
Yes, and it’s one of the easiest classes for them to love. Perfume making is seated, social and calm, there’s nothing to perform, and every age at the table gets the same bottle to take home.
The class itself doesn’t depend on drinking, so non-drinkers are completely at home. Tell us who isn’t drinking when you tell us about her. If the bride or a guest is pregnant, say so then too, so it’s part of the conversation with the fragrance expert before anything is booked.
Tell us when you tell us about her, so the fragrance expert knows before the day. If your group would rather stick to essential oils and botanicals, ask about the natural perfume version.
Natural perfume is blended from essential oils and botanicals, usually into a roll-on, and classic perfume making is the one our Melbourne days run: a fragrance expert, a table of scents, and a glass bottle with a custom label. Both are hands-on and both go home with you. Tell us which suits her when you tell us about her.
Our ready-made Melbourne perfume days are: your group gets its own private room in the CBD for two hours, just you, the bride and the fragrance expert. In other cities, tell us you’d like it private and we check it first.
Our Melbourne perfume days start from 6, 8 or 9 people depending on the package, bride included, with no maximum. Smaller group, or a different city? Tell us your number and we’ll build around it.
She can if she wants to. The hens blend makes a lovely wedding scent audition, and every bridesmaid takes her own bottle home too. Keep her scent profile card safe, and ask us if she falls in love with it. More on the wedding scent.
A perfume bar at the accommodation is on request in her city. Tell us where you’re staying and we set the bar up to suit the space.
Melbourne has ready-made perfume packages. In Sydney, Brisbane, the Gold Coast, Perth and Adelaide, perfume making is on request and built for your group. Pick her city.
Yes. In our own search research, Australian Google searches for perfume making have grown about 27 times over five years and doubled in the last twelve months, the fastest rise of any class we track. It has overtaken candle making as the scent class people look for, and the perfume bar and the bride’s wedding scent are the trends coming next.
Ask us. Solid perfume, a cologne for the groom, or a scent session paired with a sound bath can all be requested, and we tell you what’s possible in her city.
Our Melbourne perfume days sit between about $290 and $330 per person for the whole day, and the bigger the group, the lower it tends to go. See the prices by group size.
if she’d rather
Not quite her? These sit on the same shelf.
Years from now, one spritz will take her straight back to that table. And she will know who made it happen.
You. The thank-yous in the group chat will have your name on them. Pick her city:
Or tell us about her18 her shortlist
Give us the basics, and we’ll come back with the perfume days that suit her, her city and her crew.
Done. Her perfume day is officially in the works.
Keep an eye on your phone, the first text comes from one of us, not a bot.
While you wait: build her blend
