The Perfumery Art School UK

The Perfumery Art School UK is a genuine, long-running UK operation - Perfumery Art School UK Ltd was incorporated at Companies House on 11 January 2013 (company no. 08356910), registered in London, and remains active. It was founded and is led by Isabelle Gellé, a creative perfumer specialising in natural aromatics, supported by John Marchant on student services and Dr Mah Hussain-Gambles MBE, a pharmacologist, as technical advisor.

The school's two flagship qualifications are CPD UK certified: a 12-month Certificate in Perfumery Art and a 24-month Diploma in Art of Perfumery, the latter built from roughly 700 learning hours across four modules - Sense of Smell (300 hours), History & Cultures (50 hours), Fragrance Creation (250 hours), and Legislation & Selling (100 hours, covering cosmetics-registration and regulatory compliance rather than just blending technique). Final assessment requires submitting a finished perfume sample for grading. Certificate pricing runs £990 to £1,750 depending on whether a UK/EU starter kit is included.

A significant caveat for anyone booking now: as of this July 2026 review, the school's own site displays a banner stating no new online course sessions are scheduled for 2026, and the Certificate's product listing shows as 'Unavailable'. The same pages elsewhere quote specific 2026 session start dates (13 April and 11 June, with a 10 March application cutoff) - both now in the past relative to today's date - which reads as the site's next-intake information not having been refreshed. Separately, the bulk of teaching is delivered by e-learning rather than in a UK classroom; the school's occasional in-person sessions (e.g. an Advanced Formulation workshop) run at a studio in Spain, not in the UK. Anyone considering this school should confirm current UK intake availability directly before enrolling.