What perfume to buy in Vienna

Perfume houses that reinvent the scents of imperial Vienna around 1900.

See the houses Make your own perfume, from €75

Guide last checked 27 Sept 2026. Every fact links to its source.

Schönbrunn Palace and its formal gardens in Vienna, seen from the Gloriette hill

Houses worth bringing home

WienerBlut

Checked 10 Oct 2026

Vienna · since 2008 or 2009 (sources disagree)

Independent Vienna perfume house founded by Alexander Lauber, named after the 1873 phrase and Strauss waltz "Wiener Blut". It reworks Vienna's old handkerchief perfumes in small batches, bottled by hand, and each scent tells a Viennese story, from a Court Opera ball to Sigmund Freud.

Where to buy

Duft und Kultur, Tuchlauben 17, 1010 Vienna
Duft und Kultur Bazar, Rotensterngasse 28, 1020 Vienna
Lobmeyr, Kärntner Straße 26, 1010 Vienna (Mon to Sat 10:00 to 18:00)
Saint Charles Cosmothecary, Gumpendorfer Straße 33, 1060 Vienna
Online at wienerblut.at (free EU shipping over €100)

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Or make your own

3 Vienna workshops, compared

Blend your own scent with an expert and take the bottle home. Check the booking page for the current price. How prices compare in other cities.

A copperplate engraving of a branching arborvitae tree, with self-heal and ground pine at its foot — Arborvitae. Besler, 1640

BalanceLife

Regular group workshops in Vienna where you blend your own perfume from natural essences, with drinks and snacks. They are held at Salon Alserbach on set dates, most of them at weekends; its website does not give the street address.

Length: about 5 hours (14:00 to 19:00)
Take home: a 30 ml bottle of your own perfume

Price€110 per person, with a 30 ml bottle, drinks and snacks; some dates also sell other tickets from €89; a private workshop for 2 people costs €320

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Checked 9 Nov 2026

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A copperplate engraving of a double damask rose bush in full flower, with white and yellow wood sorrel at its foot — Damask rose. Besler, 1640

Ottakring

Beevie Cosmetics

A perfume workshop at a natural cosmetics maker in Vienna's 16th district, near Brunnenmarkt. Up to eight people blend their own perfume from plant essential oils in about two hours, and each takes home a 30 ml bottle.

Length: 2 hours
Take home: a 30 ml bottle of the perfume you create
Where: Fröbelgasse 46/1, 1160 Wien

Price75 €

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Checked 7 Nov 2026

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An engraving from the 1600s: an elegant couple holding flowers on a terrace above a formal garden — L'Odorat, the sense of smell. Engraving, 1600s

SKAWSKI LABS

A small perfume studio in Vienna's Josefstadt. You talk through the scents you like, smell raw materials, test a first blend on your skin and refine it, then take home your own named perfume.

Length: around 1 to 1.5 hours
Take home: a 30 ml bottle of your own perfume (50 ml for 169 EUR)
Where: Piaristengasse 12-14, 1080 Vienna
Hours: By appointment only

Price139 EUR

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Checked 7 Nov 2026

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