Redefining luxury, one event at a time
Essence & Co. was founded on a simple frustration: that the most beautiful nights of people’s lives were being sent home with favours nobody wanted.
It started with a bin bag
Anyone who has helped pack down a wedding knows the moment. The room empties, the lights come up, and there on the tables are the favours — sugared almonds, printed coasters, small candles — most of them still sitting exactly where they were placed. Thoughtfully chosen, carefully budgeted, and quietly abandoned.
Essence & Co. began in 2025 as an answer to that. Not a favour handed out, but a favour made — chosen by the guest, filled in front of them, labelled with the couple’s names, and carried home in a hand rather than left on a chair.
What we did not expect was how much the bar itself would matter. It turned out that a lit, gold-fitted fragrance bar is not just a favour station. It is a centrepiece, a conversation starter, and the thing guests photograph most after the cake.
Three things we won't compromise on
The fragrance has to be good
A pretty bar with a disappointing scent is a wasted opportunity. Every fragrance is an eau de parfum concentration that holds through a full night, because a bottle only gets kept if it is worth wearing.
It has to look built for you
Personalised signage and custom labelling are included in every package, never an upgrade. A hired unit with somebody else’s branding on it is not luxury, and we will not put one in your room.
The day should be effortless
We deliver, build, style, staff and pack down. You should not be fielding supplier questions on the morning of your wedding, and with us you will not be.
The sense that remembers
Smell is the only one of the senses that reaches the memory and emotion centres of the brain almost directly, without being processed elsewhere first. It is why a scent can return you to a specific room, a specific person, a specific year — instantly and completely, in a way a photograph rarely manages.
That is the whole thesis of this business. We are not selling perfume. We are giving your guests a way back into the best night of your life, for as long as the bottle lasts.
2025
Established
12
Signature Scents
VIC
Wide Travel
24h
Quote Turnaround
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We'd love to hear about your event
Whether it is a wedding, a launch or a fiftieth, send us the details and we’ll tell you honestly whether we are the right fit.