Luxury Mobile Experiences
Custom Perfume Bars & Lip Labs, Brought to Your Event
Custom perfume bars, Lip Labs and spa-inspired experiences that guests create with their own hands — brought to your wedding, shower, corporate event or party. Blended in house by a trained perfumer and skincare formulator.
- 140+
- Fragrance notes
- 5 to 5,000
- Guests
- 3
- Markets served
- In house
- Blended in our own lab
What is a custom perfume bar?
A custom perfume bar is a fully staffed, fully styled mobile station brought to your event, where every guest blends a custom fragrance from real perfumery materials and takes the finished bottle home. The station is the entertainment and the favor at the same time.
Glitters & Grace runs custom perfume bars, Lip Labs, bath bars, skincare bars and candy bars across Chicagoland, Milwaukee and Indianapolis. Everything is blended in house by trained perfumer and cosmetic formulator Cheryl Gleason in our own lab. Adult perfume bars start at around $500, children’s parties from $475 and fragrance consultations from $650. See full pricing.
The experiences
Five custom perfume bar and beauty experiences
Every station arrives styled, staffed and ready to play. Book one, or pair a few so your guests wander from one to the next instead of waiting in a single line.
Luxury Perfume Bars
Guests blend a fragrance that exists nowhere else, guided by a trained perfumer using absolutes, essential oils and CO2 extracts. They create it, we label it, they take it home. Four perfume bar styles for different event types.
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Custom Lip Lab
Pigments, shimmers and adjusters mixed into a personalized lip color, poured and packaged at the station. Fast, photogenic, and endlessly customizable to a color palette.
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Bath & Body Bar
A styled apothecary spread where guests build a custom bath ritual from foaming salts, botanicals and premium fragrance, finished with a hand-made bath bomb.
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Skincare Bar
A guided consultation followed by a personalized take-home set built for each guest's skin. Our most consultative station, and the one guests ask the most questions at.
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Luxury Candy Bar
Premium sweets in glass apothecary vessels, styled to your palette, with custom-labeled take-home boxes. Our fastest station, and a favorite alongside a perfume bar.
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Fragrance Consultation
One to one with a perfumer, unhurried, at our Mokena studio or your home. The formula is recorded and kept, so your fragrance can be made again.
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Built for the moments that matter
Weddings
The one wedding favor nobody leaves behind. Guests blend their own fragrance during cocktail hour, the reception or dessert, and we bottle it under a label with your names and date. Years from now, they will still be wearing your wedding.
- Cocktail hour and reception stations
- Custom labels with your names and date
- A signature scent built around your wedding
Bridal Showers & Bachelorettes
No toilet-paper dresses required. A station gives every guest something lovely to do with their hands and something to take home, and it delights the bride’s aunt just as much as her college roommate.
- Sized for groups as small as five
- Perfume bar, bath bar or Lip Lab, or combine two
- Doubles as the favor, so one less thing to plan
Corporate & Brand Activations
Trade show booths, holiday parties, client evenings and wellness days. A staffed beauty bar draws people in, keeps them happily lingering long enough for a real conversation, and sends them home with something beautiful that carries your brand.
- Custom branding on labels, packaging and signage
- Signature scents and brand-matched lip shades
- 20 to 500+ guests, COI and load-in handled
Kids & Teen Parties
Age-appropriate, genuinely fun, and a whole lot more exciting than a craft kit. Kids mix their own lip gloss, perfume or body spray and proudly show it off to anyone who will look. Teens get the full lab experience.
- Birthday parties, spa parties and Sweet 16s
- Lip gloss, body spray, bath and glitter stations
- Hosted start to finish — you run nothing
Custom & Themed Parties
Tell us the era, the film, the palette or simply the feeling, and we build the whole bar around it, right down to the scents. We have poured a 1920s perfume bar, a 70s disco bar and an 80s-inspired Lip Lab, and the part guests remember is that even the fragrances belonged to the decade.
- A scent menu curated to your theme, not a stock list
- Styling, vessels, signage and packaging to match
- Decades, films, destinations or a palette you hand us
Custom Fragrance & Commissions
Sometimes what you want isn’t a party at all. You can commission a perfumer, which simply means asking a perfumer to create an original fragrance just for you, the way you might commission a portrait. Bring the memory, the mood or the person, and we will find it in a bottle.
- A brief in your own words, no fragrance vocabulary needed
- Developed in our lab, with revisions until it is right
- Your formula recorded and kept, so it can be made again
Why us
Not a scent bar. A true perfumer’s bar.
Our bars are built on the same raw materials perfumers have treasured for centuries. Your guests can smell the difference the moment they lift a blotter, and the fragrance they make lasts long after the party.
Real perfumery materials
Our founder is a trained perfumer who formulates with absolutes, essential oils and CO2 extracts, so we can tell your guests exactly what is in the bottle they made, and where it came from.
Fully mobile, fully staffed
We arrive with the bar, the displays, the linens, the signage and a team who loves this as much as we do. More than 140 notes to play with, and four styles of perfume bar to suit your occasion.
Any size, any venue
From a five-person shower in a living room to a 5,000-guest activation, we size the staffing and stations to your room and your run of show.
Fine fragrance, not a craft project
The materials on our table are the same kind you would find in a luxury fragrance house, which is why what your guests create wears like a true perfume.
New · Our Mokena Studio
Or skip the venue search entirely
Our first studio in Mokena has a private party room for groups of up to 40, which means the venue and the experience come from the same place.
No venue hunt, no rental contract, and no squeezing a load-in around someone else’s schedule. Just pick a date, choose your experiences, and walk into a boutique room already dressed in elegant decor, fabrics and florals.
It is made for showers, birthdays, teen parties, team offsites and every small celebration that deserves a pretty room.
19060 Everett Blvd, Suite 107 · Mokena, IL
How it works
Four steps, and we handle three of them
Tell us the basics
Date, venue, guest count and the vibe. A rough guess is enough to start, and we would rather hear early than perfectly.
Get a proposal
Recommended experiences, staffing and timing with clear, itemized pricing, so you can keep what you love and skip what you don’t.
We handle the details
Insurance, venue coordination, custom labels, signage and a confirmed load-in window.
We arrive and run it
We set up, host every guest and pack out cleanly. You get to actually enjoy your own event.
Where we work
Three markets, one team
We call the southwest suburbs of Chicago home, and we happily travel throughout each market we serve with no travel fees.
Chicago & Chicagoland
The Loop · River North · Fulton Market · Naperville · Oak Brook · Schaumburg · Mokena
Our home market, where custom perfume bars run for weddings, corporate activations and celebrations from downtown to the collar counties.
Chicago corporate events →Milwaukee
Milwaukee Metro · Third Ward · Kenosha · Racine
Weddings, showers and corporate events from the Third Ward to the Illinois–Wisconsin border.
Check Milwaukee dates →Indianapolis
Indy Metro · Downtown · Carmel · Fishers
Our fastest-growing market, with custom perfume bars and Lip Labs booking across the metro.
Check Indianapolis dates →What people say
From hosts across all three markets
My wedding was absolutely beautiful. We were able to customize everything from our perfumes to our decor. It was amazing and exceeded our expectations! Thank you!Lexi A.Wedding · Naperville
My daughter's birthday party was amazing and we recommend Cheryl's team. They took care of everything. We had manicures, facials, bath salts, perfume and the lip gloss stations. The girls were busy for hours and everything was cleaned up too!Lauren C.Sweet 16 · Hinsdale
It (skincare) was definitely a unique, luxury activity and Instagram worthy. We loved it and highly recommend Glitters and Grace.Julie G.Corporate event · Chicago
Common questions
The things everyone asks first
How much does a perfume bar cost?
A custom perfume bar starts at around $500 for adults, children’s parties start from $475 and fragrance consultations from $650. Every event is quoted individually on guest count, stations, staffing and time on site. Full pricing is published here.
What is included?
All materials, a take-home for every guest, hosts, styling, setup and full cleanup, plus certificates of insurance naming your venue when you need them.
How many guests can you handle?
From five to over five thousand. We scale staffing and stations to your room and your run of show, so a living-room shower and a trade show activation are both ordinary bookings.
Where do you travel?
All of Chicagoland, greater Milwaukee and the Indianapolis metro, with no travel fees. We do travel beyond those markets for larger bookings, quoted in advance.
Can we combine experiences?
Yes, and for larger events we usually recommend it. One station invites guests to linger while another keeps things moving, so together they keep the whole room mingling.
What is actually in the products?
Absolutes, essential oils and CO2 extracts for fragrance, with more than 140 notes to choose from, and cosmetic-safe ingredients throughout. Full ingredient and allergen information is available in advance.
Do you work with children?
Yes, ages 5 and up, with age-appropriate formulations, packaging and pace. Our hosts are background-checked and trained to work with children, and they are very good at making every little guest feel like the star. Kids and teen parties.
How far in advance should we book?
Six to eight weeks for most Saturdays, and further for spring, December and weddings. Weeknights and Sundays are often open on much shorter notice, so it never hurts to ask.
How quickly will you reply?
Generally within two business days. We handle a high volume of inquiries and events. May, September and December are our busiest months and we are often out of the office and at events. We are also usually out at events over the weekends; an inquiry received on a Saturday is answered on a weekday. If you don't receive a response from us within 2-3 business days, please text us at 815-418-6740 with your contact information so we can get back to you.
The good dates go first
We take a limited number of events per date in each market, because a fully staffed, fully styled station cannot be in two rooms at once. May, September, and December Saturdays go earliest, and weddings book a year ahead. Reach out early, even if you are still dreaming it up.