The Institute for Art and Olfaction

Ruminant Dance, Instructions Toward

IAO Gallery presents a multisensory installation by Minetta Rogers, in conversation with MFK Fisher’s 1924 essay, The First Oyster. (in person)

On view at IAO Gallery

Smelling Session: Perfume Box Sets

IAO Library curator Charles Rosenberg presents a smelling session, exploring perfume box sets. This session benefits the IAO Library and its related programs. (in person)

Dec. 18: Sign up

Incense: Perfume Accords

In this online class, perfumer Ashley Eden Kessler teaches perfume composition with an exploration of an dusty, echoey, resinous old church incense accord. (online)

Dec. 19: Sign up

Tracing Perfume: Animalics and Musks

Dana El Masri leads an exploration of animalics and musks in fine fragrance and perfumery: smell your way through the modern history and genealogy of perfume. (in person)

Dec. 11: Sign up

Perfume 202 +303: Lab Skills and Composition Basics

Ashley Eden Kessler teaches a hybrid video and live Q+A course that covers the most important infrastructure for lab work and fragrance creation. (online)

Dec. 12: Q&A session (videos available now)

Eau de Cookie Dough

Dr. Claire Bunschoten explores concepts of longing that circulate with gourmand fragrances, tracing nostalgia and the emergence of this fragrance family.(online)

Dec. 15: Sign up

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Ruminant Dance, Instructions Toward

Smelling Session: Perfume Box Sets

Incense: Perfume Accords

Tracing Perfume: Animalics and Musks

Perfume 202 +303: Lab Skills and Composition Basics

Eau de Cookie Dough

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