Perfume Education and Experimentation
IAO director Saskia Wilson-Brown recently visited Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In her ongoing quest to visit every botanical garden, she took a moment to check out the Benjamin Rush Botanical Gardens at the Mütter Museum, tended by the oldest private medical society in the United States: the College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Here is her report from the field!
IAO Board Member Rubia Chaudri and director Saskia Wilson-Brown recently visited Alexandria, Virginia, and went on a tour of a beautiful (and definitely haunted) historic apothecary. In this post, Saskia shares what they learned during their tour of the Stabler-Leadbeater Apothecary Museum.
The IAO’s Saskia Wilson-Brown recently visited Iceland, and took a moment to check out the iconic perfume brand, Fischersund. Here is a report, from the (cold and drizzly) field!
On a trip to Doha, Qatar organized by the Qatar America Institute for Culture, a group of delegates visited the Perfume Museum in Doha, started by collector Reem Abu Issa. In this post, Saskia Wilson-Brown shares some of her favorite exhibits from the museum.
On a trip to Doha, Qatar organized by the Qatar America Institute for Culture, a group of delegates visit the Qur’anic Botanic Garden. In this post, Saskia Wilson-Brown shares some of her favorite plants, and smells, from the tour.
When we describe something in English, the ordering of our adjectives is very important. It goes something like this: Opinion, size, age, shape, color, origin, material, purpose and – finally – noun. Thus “comely contemporary Cuban counterfeit cologne” sounds more appealing, say, than “pirated Peruvian present-day pretty perfume”. Alliteration, of course, adds the spice.
During the months of July and August, the IAO teamed up with Mediamatic in Amsterdam in experimental project enfleuraging redheads, led by IAO board member and bon-vivant, Kendra Gaeta.
In June 2018, IAO founder Saskia Wilson-Brown gave a talk at the World Perfumery Congress about a new initiative exploring alternatives for current IP structures as they relate to historic and independent perfumery. Here are the slides and Saskia’s presenter notes, shared under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License
Camus: “We don’t have the time to completely be ourselves. We only have the room to be happy.”