11 Week Materials Courses
Ongoing, with Ashley Eden Kessler

 

Knowing your materials is the cornerstone to a thriving perfumery practice. Learning the various facets of each material’s aroma, as well as how it performs in time and space, can be slow, hard and crucial work. 

Ashley Eden Kessler leads a series of courses that takes place over each year, exploring the crucial materials in the perfumers organ in three separate eleven-week modules. In each weekly 2.5 hour online session, Ashley will lead the class in smelling and discussing five crucial perfume materials – both naturals and synthetics. Over eleven sessions, we will systematically go through the materials organ category by category, going into the function, aesthetics and technicalities of each material and its fragrance family.

All participants leave with a fluency in the most important molecules of modern perfumery. For beginners, this series presents an indispensable first step in practicing perfumery and growing your familiarity with the perfumers organ. For more experienced perfumers, the class presents an opportunity to enrich your process and technical abilities.

+ SEE UPCOMING MODULES ON OUR EVENTS CALENDAR

 


WHAT TO EXPECT

Takeaways:

+ Technical knowledge about the molecular components of the studied material
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Knowledge of aromatic materials’ origins and use in fine perfumery
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A greater familiarity with aromatic materials and fragrance families
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Proficiency with organoleptic evaluation

Materials are needed for this class! We will send you a materials list upon signup. Please purchase these materials before attending class. Before class, we will send you dilution exercises, which must be accomplished before the online session begins.

These modules are not consecutive. Any student can start at any module (though modules 1 and 2 cover more commonly used materials). All levels are welcome. This class teaches about the materials of scent, but does not get into blending strategies.

 


 

BREAKDOWN OF MODULES

MODULE 1
Week 1 – Woody Synthetic
Week 2 – Woody Natural
Week 3 – Citrus Natural
Week 4 – Citrus Synthetic
Week 5 – Spice Synthetic
Week 6 – Spice Natural
Week 7 – Green Natural
Week 8 – Green Leaves Synthetic
Week 9 – Aldehydic Synthetic
Week 10 – Fresh Synthetic
Week 11 – Fresh Synthetic

 

MODULE 2

Week 1– Fruity (Synthetic)
Week 2 – Fruity Aldehyde
Week 3  – Rosy (Natural)
Week 4 – Rosy (Synthetic)
Week 5 – Rosy (Synthetic) / Oranger (Synthetic)
Week 6 –Oranger (Natural)
Week 7 – Jasmine (Synthetic)
Week 8 – Marine  / Green Aquatic
Week 9 – Floral Natural
Week 10 – Amber (Synthetic)
Week 11 –Ambery / Sweet (Natural)

 

MODULE 3
Week 1
– Powdery Synthetic
Week 2- Powdery Natural, Balsamic Natural, Miscellaneous Natural
Week 3 – Musk Synthetic, Animalic Natural
Week 4 – Animalic Natural, Animalic Synthetic
Week 5 – Anisic Synthetic
Week 6 – Anisic Natural
Week 7 – Vanilla Synthetic, Balsamic Synthetic
Week 8 – Balsamic Natural
Week 9 – Minty Synthetic
Week 10 – Aromatic Synthetic
Week 11 – Aromatic Naturals

 

 

SPECIAL MODULE 4 – TOPS + BOTTOMS

Well-crafted top notes can be the most impactful yet most difficult to balance area in a perfume formula. Meanwhile, those often overlooked deeper base notes offer the potential to fix a formula over time, as well as to push and enliven a perfume from beneath. Never fear: Ashley Eden Kessler can show you how to polish the tops and structure the bottoms in our six week session focusing on special blending strategies. This class will help create a higher level of expertise for intermediate-level perfumers looking to gain more finesse in blending by covering difficult and exciting materials in six fragrance families. Over the course of six weeks, Ashley will facilitate several traditional blending exercises designed to get the most out of your materials, while giving you a measure of fluency in perfume creation. Each class will spend 1 hour smelling the selected materials, and 1 hour creating group blends.

Week 1 – Top Notes: Green
Week 2 – Top Notes: Citrus
Week 3 – Top Notes: Spice
Week 4 – Top Notes: Aldehydes
Week 5 –  Bottom Notes: Animalics
Week 6 –  Bottom Notes: Musks

 


Questions? Email us at hello@artandolfaction.com