He smelled like stale cigarettes, unwashed teenage armpits and a strident, neon cologne – the kind the desperately poor might buy at Boots and spray onto badly washed clothes before a job interview. Moral of the story?
April, 2016: NSFW (True Story)
March, 2016: Bad Titles For Email Newsletters
This Thing Is In Your Inbox. Stinky News Inside! We’ve Re-Organized Our Newsletter! We’re Going to Italy, but You’re Probably Not… We Met a Guy From Iowa. Eggs Come In Their Own Wrappers.
February, 2016: Riddle Me This
The big news this month is that we are teaming up with Hammer Museum to present AIX Scent Fair – the first international artisan, independent, experimental scent fair to be presented by a contemporary art museum. It all happens May 6–8, 2016 at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles – and applications to participate are due Feb 8!
January, 2016: Roman Passageways
Thanks to the saturnine god of agriculture, wealth and dissolution, two-faced Janus was given the ability to simultaneously see the future and the past; one face forward, the other back. Janus’ name comes from ‘ianus’, the latin word for door.
December 2015: Newsletter
Cyber-Monday? How about cipher-Monday, instead. Here’s one for you, based on simple letter substitution: “Be bjhdxh xaotwq bwpbix vdhk hak abeq habh mkkqx ads – vth eoh hoo abjq.” – Ebs Ztek Ybdc
November 2015: Newsletter
A “sonnet”, with our deepest apologies to Mr. Shakespeare. Seriously. We’re sorry.
3rd annual Art and Olfaction Awards: Submissions Open
Submissions for the third annual Art and Olfaction Awards are open until December 7. We accept work in three categories: Artisan (for artisan perfumers), Independent (for independent/niche brands) and the Sadakichi Award for Experimental Use of Scent.
October, 2015: Newsletter
She returns to her laptop. She writes about Christy Gast’s project ‘Dear Enemy’, the solitary open session in October, the upcoming scented screenings in UK and Denmark, a talk at the Wallace, and… Oh yeah… The awards. She presses send.
Scratch and Sniff
At the first Mechanics of Scent workshop at The Institute for Art and Olfaction, a group of 11 experimentally-minded people got together to try to find the very best hacks for Scratch-N-Sniff.