Perfume Education and Experimentation
Have you wanted to understand and appreciate perfume, without knowing what it is, where to start, or how to learn? We're here to help, in an online introduction to the practice.
For first time visitors to the IAO, our open sessions present a guided introduction to working with scent - with hands-on blending time!
Dana El Masri leads an exploration of green woods in fine fragrance and perfumery: smell your way through the genealogy of perfume.
Perfumer Sarah Horowitz-Thran draws from decades of experience to teach basic business skills for emerging brands.
Danial Krasofski presents an interpretive class that explores the Jean Carles approach to form and perfume composition.
Smell examples of fragrance materials used to recreate animalic and human stink, in this introduction to perfume materials and notes.
Train your nose by smelling important fragrance materials in different scent families in this in person introduction to perfume materials led by Minetta Rogers.
Join your fellow perfumers and blend in community with plenty of aromatic materials to discover. Returning students only.
In this online class, Ashley Eden Kessler teaches technical perfume composition with an exploration of a white wood accord.
In this online class, perfumer Ashley Eden Kessler teaches perfume composition with an exploration of an oud accord.
Perfumer Sarah Horowitz-Thran discusses how MoCRA guidelines and other regulations may affect your creative perfumery practice, in this in-person introduction.
Want to understand, appreciate, and even start to work with perfume? Minetta Rogers teaches the basics, in this introduction to perfumery.
A special session celebrating Halloween, for enthusiasts of the art and craft of making perfume.
A special session celebrating Halloween, for enthusiasts of the art and craft of making perfume.
Dr. Leslie M. Kay joins the Institute for Art and Olfaction for an in person lecture about her research into scent and brain health.
When you sign up for a class or event at the IAO, you will receive an Eventbrite confirmation email which contains important information, such as materials lists or preparation instructions. Please be sure to scroll down in the email, so you see those instructions.
For online classes, you will receive the Zoom log-in information approximately 12 – 24 hours before each session begins. To avoid this going to spam, add hello@artandolfaction.com to your address book. Our online classes are recorded, and the video is available to registered attendees for 7 days after the class takes place. Because the class is recorded and can be viewed later, we do not provide refunds or transfers for online classes.
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