The House
Built in Silicon Valley. Worn everywhere.
A fragrance house at the intersection of art, engineering, and connection.
Swirl Works is a fragrance house in Menlo Park, California. We make perfume. We teach people how to make perfume. And we bring fragrance into rooms where people are trying to connect, whether that's a corporate boardroom, a wedding, or a Saturday afternoon with friends.
We opened in 2020 at the Allied Arts Guild, a half-hidden arts compound tucked behind wisteria and clay tiles in the middle of Silicon Valley. In 2025, we added a second home inside the Rosewood Sand Hill, one of the most recognized luxury hotels on the Peninsula.
Our work sits in two worlds. On one side: retail. Vanilla Flight, our signature collection of five vanillas, lets customers build a custom three-scent flight that becomes theirs. On the other: corporate. Executive scent experiences designed for teams at Databricks, Nike, Levi's Stadium, and dozens of companies across the Bay Area who want something their people will actually remember.
Fragrance is personal. It triggers memory faster than any other sense. We use that to give someone a moment they keep coming back to.
The Perfumer
Kori Shaw.
Kori is a classically trained perfumer and mechanical engineer whose study of fragrance extends well beyond the lab. She has explored lavender in Provence, distilled mimosa in Spain, and studied vanilla cultivation in the Dominican Republic, learning how fragrance materials are grown and processed before they reach a perfumer's palette. She develops every fragrance Swirl Works produces.
Kori Shaw, Silicon Valley's unique perfumer, is bridging the gap between technology and scent.
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