Perfume Education and Experimentation
Want to understand and appreciate, and even start to work with perfume? We're here to help in a hands- and noses-on introductory workshop!
Train your nose by smelling important fragrance materials in different scent families in this in person introduction to perfume materials.
Art historian Jessica Murphy joins the Institute for Art and Olfaction for a discussion of her olfactory research and museum work.
Our popular online intensive returns! Learn the most important information and materials for a new perfumer hoping to start their practice - or for an experienced perfumer who needs to level up their technical skills - over five online sessions.
In this online class, perfumer Ashley Eden Kessler teaches perfume composition with an exploration of an orange blossom accord.
Ashley Eden Kessler teaches perfume composition with an exploration of a delicate lily of the valley accord.
In its 6th edition, ESS is designed to build community and learning in creative practices with scent. Through informal talks, round tables and workshops, practitioners can share experimental work in an open and unrestrained environment that facilitates collaboration and inquiry. Part of Scent Week LA.
Spyros Drosopoulos, Ernesto Collado and Saskia WIlson-Brown lead a 6 day in person workshop at Mas Flaquer, a regenerative farm outside Barcelona, highlighting connections between diverse ways of working through a combination of field work, hands-on blending time, and lectures.
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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