Perfume Education and Experimentation
Want to understand and appreciate, and even start to work with perfume? Julianne Lee is here to help in a hands- and noses-on introductory workshop!
Minetta Rogers leads a hands- and noses-on perfume class exploring a historical formula reconstructing the scent of honeysuckle. In person.
This exhibition aims to showcase perfume formulas as cultural and aesthetic artifacts. Join us for an exhibition walk-through and talk led by co-curators Professor Urs Stäheli and IAO founder Saskia Wilson-Brown.
For first time visitors to the IAO, our open sessions present a guided introduction to working with scent - with hands-on blending time!
Ashley Eden Kessler leads an eleven week session exploring crucial materials in the perfumers' organ.
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!
For first time visitors to the IAO, our open sessions present a guided introduction to working with scent - with hands-on blending time!
In this online class, perfumer Ashley Eden Kessler teaches technical perfume composition with an exploration of a silky tuberose accord.
For first time visitors to the IAO, our open sessions present a guided introduction to working with scent - with hands-on blending time!
Charles Rosenberg explores scents from the IFF x Odeuropa Historical Scent Collection: Pomander, Dutch canal, hell, and more.
In this online class, perfumer Ashley Eden Kessler teaches technical perfume composition with an exploration of a crisp, green fig accord.
Train your nose by smelling important fragrance materials in different scent families in this in person introduction to perfume materials.
This sensory trio of vignettes features three acts: from a fragrant lecture on architectural aura, a surrealist scent-tagged auction of priceless goods, to a cake-piped pas de deux on a frosted human body in motion. With Halston Bruce, Hannah Marie Marcus, Kelly Delany and Meg Paradowski
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.
Join P.F. Candle Co. founder Kristen Pumphrey for a container candle making workshop.
Join P.F. Candle Co. founder Kristen Pumphrey and learn how to make hand-rolled incense cones - a meditative and aromatic project straight from her book, At Home with Fragrance.
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