Perfumer'S Workshop
Perfumer's Workshop was founded in New York in 1970 by Donald Bauchner and his wife Gun, after Donald had spent a decade working inside the American fragrance industry. The original concept was custom blending: customers visited a counter, talked through preferences, and walked away with a personally composed eau de toilette mixed from a library of base oils — an idea that prefigured the bespoke and indie-fragrance movements of the following decades. In 1972 the house began offering pre-made versions of its most-requested formulas, and Tea Rose, originally a counter blend, was relaunched as a full retail fragrance in 1977. It became the brand's defining product: a true rose soliflore that has remained in continuous production for nearly fifty years. The firm is still family-owned, distributed worldwide, and best known for the Tea Rose line and the men's fragrance Samba.
DNA over time
Each column is an era. Each colored band shows that family’s share of accord weight across every perfume the house released in that window. Bigger band = the house leaned harder on that family.
