Recipes & Rituals for Community Care: Botanical Scent Bowls

The Scent Bowl Making Workshop is a hands-on experience designed to connect participants to the natural world through the art of blended scent creation. Using resins, wood chips, herbs, and natural materials, participants will craft their own custom bowl to take home. Each ingredient becomes a small lesson in botany—an invitation to notice how plants store memory in resin, root, bark, and leaf, and how those compounds shape the fragrances we receive. These bowls can be used for personal rituals, relaxation, meditation, or as a centerpiece for shared gatherings.

Evandros Amani is a multidisciplinary artist, herbalist, and scent maker whose work explores the intersection of art and nature - where form, fragrance, and ritual converge. Through his brand Essence Equilibrium, he creates handcrafted perfumes and sensory experiences that honor nature and celebrate the art of balance.

Find more of his work at: www.essenceequilibrium.com and on instragram @essenceequilibrium

Workshops are rain or shine.

Accessibility: Our kitchen/classroom space is wheelchair accessible. With prior planning, we can add a few small mats onto the pebbled ground of greenhouse to make a small wheel-chair accessible path. Our learning garden has grass paths, and the entrance is through a gate with a small, raised entrance. Our tables can be lowered/raised, and we have several backless benches or stools. Our kitchen is in regular use, and while we try to cook without peanuts, much of our cookware is shared and we cannot guarantee a nut-free environment. We have a first aid kit, and the closest AED is in another building several yards away. Drinking water is made available in refillable pitchers.

When inside the greenhouse and kitchen we will open our double-doors and windows to vent the space and encourage masking and social distancing when in more closed-in spaces.

Our closest bathrooms are a building away, about a one-minute walk. A gender neutral bathroom is also available, and this is accessible by key which you can request from staff. We are not a scent-free zone, and because herbalism classes take place here, cannot guarantee that the site will be clear of any essential oil smells. If you have needs not addressed here, please reach out to Mallory Craig at [email protected].

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Host or Publisher The Horticultural Society of New York