Scents of Belonging Perfume Gallery

Your scent. Your story. Your belonging.

Perfume Gallery · Temba, HammanskraalKeep scrolling. The gallery opens.

Over a hundred designer-inspired fragrances.

Poured slowly. Filled with care.

Sealed, and waiting for you.

A scent never stays where you leave it.

Welcome to the gallery. Where would you like to start?

Find your scent Order online
Skip the film

The testing bar

Find your scent
in three taps.

You don't need to know perfume names. Tell us who it's for and what you love, and we'll hand you the strips to try.

Rather smell them in person?

1 Who is it for?
2 What do you love? Pick one or more

3 Your strips. Tap one to try it.

Lift the cap.

One spray is enough.

Smell good.
Feel good.

Come through, test your favourites and leave smelling unforgettable.

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The Ripple Effect bottle, a square glass flacon with a stepped black cap, on a walnut shelf

Our house scent

Ripple Effect.

The one we made ourselves. Come and smell it at the gallery, or let it find you.

Rows of Scents of Belonging bottles on the walnut shelf at the gallery

Every scent, four sizes

  • 10 mlR50to carry
  • 30 mlR180to try
  • 50 mlR280most chosen
  • 100 mlR500to keep

The collection

    These are our most asked-for. Over 100 more are on the shelves in Temba, and if yours isn't here, name it and we'll find it.

    For every celebration

    Gift a scent.

    Every bottle leaves the gallery in its jute pouch, with a white gift bag on request. Tell us who it is for and we will help you choose.

    A Scents of Belonging bottle with a silver cap and a gold ribbon, beside its jute pouch and a white gift bag
    For herA scent she will remember
    The Ripple Effect bottle with a black ribbon beside its jute pouch
    For himRipple Effect, the house scent
    Two Scents of Belonging bottles, black cap and silver cap, in front of a white gift bag
    For the ones who matterTwo bottles, one gift bag
    The fluted gold-cap bottle on a desk beside a cream notebook and its jute pouch
    For the one who leadsThe fluted gold bottle
    The clear Black Edition bottle with a black ribbon beside its jute pouch and a black silk scarf
    For the boldBlack Edition, clear as glass
    Ripple Effect and the fluted gold bottle side by side with black and gold ribbons
    For him & herTwo scents, one story

    Order a gift on WhatsApp

    Every scent begins
    with a single note.

    Then it becomes yours.

    Be remembered.

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    Worn in Hammanskraal

    Born here.

    Outside the gallery, Mokhari Building Nthabeleng, coming home to a gift Her signature, chosen at the testing bar Temba At the gallery window, opposite U-Save Shop 92, the amber window His signature, out of the pouch

    A customer in a camel jacket holds up a Scents of Belonging bottle outside the gallery Nthabeleng on her couch, smiling with her gift of perfume A customer in a black hoodie smiles with her bottle A customer in a patterned cardigan holds a bottle close A customer in a denim jacket in front of the gallery window The gallery's front window with the amber bottle mural A young man in a black leather jacket smiling as he lifts his Scents of Belonging bottle out of its jute pouch

    The guestbook

    What people say
    after the first spray.

    FaridaCame for the fragrance, loved it enough to tell everyone.
    A mini outfit checkDressed, sprayed, out the door.
    Thandeka MabundaCo-founder, wearing her own.
    A day at the galleryFilmed by Bontle, from opening up to the first customers.
    Unuka kamnandi"You smell good." That is the review.
    Two favouritesChosen at the testing bar.
    Wow, these are indeed scents of belonging that lift my spirit and fill my heart with joy.
    Two Scents of Belonging bottles held up in a garden Nthabeleng on her couch, smiling with her gift of perfume
    Nthabeleng Thabang MogaleOn coming home to a gift from the gallery · 18 March
    A Scents of Belonging bottle resting on its linen pouch on a walnut table
    How it arrivesWrapped in a linen pouch, ready to give.

    A scent never stays
    where you leave it.

    It follows you.

    From Temba,
    Hammanskraal,

    to anywhere in
    South Africa.

    Be remembered.

    Order online. Collect at the gallery, or we courier it to your door.

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    Name it.
    We'll find it.

    Can't see your favourite? Tell us its name. We source it within two days, or we mix a scent just for you.

    Three Scents of Belonging bottles resting on rose silk

    Your own perfume business

    Start with five.

    1. One bottle for you.
    2. Four for your friends.
    3. Sell at retail. Keep your profit.

    No recruitment. No team. No monthly fees.
    Restock and grow at your own pace.

    The more you stock, the better your buying price.

    • Bronze5 to 9 bottles
    • Silver10 to 19
    • Gold20 to 49
    • Platinum50 and more

    Buying prices for each tier are sent to you on WhatsApp.

    Start with five

    From the counter to a first profit.

    Palesa's first fiveWatch her story
    A man in a denim shirt at the gallery counter, smiling at his first five bottles and pouches
    Collect your fiveAt the counter in Temba
    A woman in an orange top at the gallery counter beside her five bottles and the open box
    Five bottles, five pouchesYour first stock
    A woman offering a bottle to two colleagues in an office tea room
    Four for people you knowOne spray and they're sold
    A woman in a mustard top in a minibus taxi, smiling at the cash in her hand
    Keep your profitNo team, no monthly fees

    The founders

    Oscar &
    Thandeka.

    Husband and wife, and the founders of Scents of Belonging. They opened the gallery in Temba so you can come in, test, and smell luxurious on a Hammanskraal budget.

    We don't just sell perfumes, we help you find your essence.
    Oscar and Thandeka Mabunda, the founders of Scents of Belonging, dressed in black on a red carpet
    Mr & Mrs MabundaCelebrating another year, together and in business
    Thandeka MabundaCo-founder

    TikTok · @thandekamabunda

    Oscar Mabunda, smiling
    Oscar MabundaCo-founder · known on stage as Oscar Omuhle

    TikTok · @oscaromuhleFacebook · Oscar Omuhleoscaromuhle.co.za

    Welcome to the gallery"Thank you for your support, we're in Hammanskraal."

    Facebook · Scents of Belonging

    Come test, come choose

    Inside the gallery.

    Test strips, a soft seat and over 100 scents on the shelves. Take your time.

    A couple at the gallery shelves, he smells her wrist while she laughs, each holding a bottle
    Test side by sideRipple Effect and the gold bottle
    A young woman on the gallery sofa smelling a paper test strip, a silver-cap bottle on the table
    Take your timePaper strips and a soft seat
    An older man in a navy blazer reading a bottle's label by the gallery's crest wall
    Choose at your own paceBy the counter and the crest
    A young man in an olive jacket smelling his wrist after one spray, grinning
    One sprayBlack Edition

    Come smell, test and find your new favourite

    Visit the gallery.

    Shop 92, Mokhari Attorneys Inc Building
    Opposite U-Save, Kudube Unit 1
    Temba, Hammanskraal
    Monday to Friday
    09:00 to 17:00
    Saturday
    09:00 to 13:00
    Sunday
    Closed
    Open in Maps WhatsApp 064 721 2397 Call us
    Inside the gallery: the shelves you'll test from.
    The Mokhari Attorneys Inc building in Temba, a two-storey face-brick building with a long balcony
    Look for the Mokhari Attorneys Inc building, opposite U-Save.