Perfume 202 and 303
with Ashley Eden Kessler
Ongoing
Perfume 202
Good lab practices can provide the backbone for a thriving creative practice and – for that reason – independent perfumer and IAO board member Ashley Eden Kessler leads a new series designed to provide important next steps for budding perfumers.
Providing crucial information for setting up a professional perfume lab, and helping you ensure that your practice is built on a solid foundation, this recurring class will cover the important technical minutiae: From how to use a scale to how to make a lab solution, an overview of lab hygiene and organization, and how to maintain your scent organ. This class, in short, will allow you to orient yourself as an aspiring perfumer, and help you set up a thriving independent perfume laboratory of your own.
Good for: Advanced beginners, Intermediate
Instructor: Ashley Eden Kessler
Sign-up Requirements: Attendees must have taken either ‘Perfume 101’ or ‘Foundations of Creative Perfumery’. Check our calendar for upcoming sessions!
Topics covered:
+ Introduction to perfume lab techniques: Pipette techniques (basic and advanced), how to use a scale
+ Overview of lab hygiene and organization, setting up your work station.
+ Overview of perfume organ set-up and maintenance
+ Demonstration of making a dilution from pure to diluted for safe use in perfume-blending
Take-Aways:
Participants will leave with a more advanced sense of how to work in their lab, and the tools to start their professional practice.
Perfume 303
Perfume is an art, a science and a craft, and thoughtful creative preparations and revisions can provide the structure for a thriving artistic output in perfumery.
Designed to provide important next steps for budding perfumers, Perfume 303 will teach you the crucial information for setting up a professional perfume organ, conceptualizing and creating perfume formulas, and helping you ensure that your practice is built on a good artistic habits. This recurring class will cover the important creative minutiae: from how to organize your material library, select your palette for composition, track your formulas, and evaluate your trials. This class, in short, will allow you to ground yourself as an aspiring perfume creator, and help you establish your creativity as a practicing independent perfumer.
Good for: Intermediate
Instructor: Ashley Eden Kessler
Sign-up Requirements: Attendees must have taken our Perfume 202 class. Check out calendar for upcoming sessions!
Topics covered:
+ How to choose a material palette for perfume composition
+ Overview of perfume formula writing and maintenance
+ Introduction to organizing perfume formula writing
+ How to evaluate perfume trials and revise formulae
+ Techniques for saving perfume trials
Take-Aways:
Participants will leave with an advanced capacity for perfume composition, and the tools to evaluate, revise, finalize, and scale up their formulations.
+ CHECK OUR CALENDAR FOR UPCOMING CLASSES
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