Exclusive Kotodama Workshop: Create your own Scent with Perfect Potions

Breathe deeply, and rediscover the world through your sense of smell.

About Sal & Carolyn

Sal Battaglia and Carolyn Stubbin are a creative partnership whose work flows from a shared, lifelong love of the natural world. Together they founded the pioneering Australian aromatherapy house, Perfect Potion, in Brisbane in 1991. For more than three decades, their art has explored the meeting point of nature, scent, and the senses.

Sal is an artist of scent. For over forty years he has worked with the raw materials of the natural world — essential oils, resins, woods, and botanicals — masterfully formulating unique essential oil blends and composing natural perfumes. An internationally acclaimed author, his books, including The Complete Guide to Aromatherapy and Kotodama of Scent, are regarded as essential references in the field. His practice sits where craft, chemistry, and contemplation meet, creating natural perfumes designed to move and to heal, while inviting others to slow down, breathe deeply, and rediscover the world through their sense of smell.

Carolyn is a visual artist, photographer, and author who holds a Master of Visual Arts. As Creative Director of Perfect Potion, she has shaped its artistic vision from the very first store. As the formulator behind the entire Perfect Potion skincare range, she creates holistic skincare utilising a rich palette of unique Australian botanicals and natural plant ingredients from all around the world. Her artistic eye was first trained in her hometown of Boonah, in the Scenic Rim, traditionally Ugarapul Country, where the smell of freshly turned earth and eucalyptus became some of her earliest and fondest memories. That connection to landscape still drives her work today, whether through the lens of a camera or the botanical art of plant-based skincare.

Sal and Carolyn share a love for Minjerribah/Terrangee. A place whose salt air, light, coastline, and native flora have long been a source of retreat and inspiration. The island continues to shape their art, and they are delighted to share it as part of the Straddie Arts Trail.

The workshop

Join Salvatore Battaglia for an exclusive hands-on workshop where you can explore the Kotodama of Scent and create your own custom natural perfume based on the aromas of the Kotodama study to take home.

All guests will receive a small gift — Kokoro perfume — and take home the custom natural perfume they create on the day.

Tickets: $25

📍 Second Sand Studio, Mulumba | Point Lookout, Minjerribah / Terrangee