Eleven Week Materials Course
On ZoomAshley Eden Kessler leads an eleven week session exploring crucial materials in the perfumers' organ. Live, on Zoom. Materials list sent upon signup.
Ashley Eden Kessler leads an eleven week session exploring crucial materials in the perfumers' organ. Live, on Zoom. Materials list sent upon signup.
For first time visitors to the IAO, our open sessions present a guided introduction to working with scent - with hands-on blending time!
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!
Neuroscientist Anna D'Errico discusses some updated research in perfumery neuroscience, in the latest in her Science of Smell series.
Come join your fellow enthusiasts and blend in community with plenty of new aromatic materials to discover. Returning students only.
Perfumer Ashley Eden Kessler teaches perfume composition with exploration of three industrial accords: motor oil, black rubber, vinyl toy.
Author Katy Kelleher joins the Institute for Art and Olfaction for a discussion of her book 'The Ugly History of Beautiful Things.' Online.
Experimental Scent Summit is an annual gathering where invited speakers share research and ideas in an informal, friendly setting. Join us for the 5th edition in Lisbon, Portugal.
The IAO and perfumer Spyros Drosopoulos team up for a five day intensive in the heart of France's gorgeous Loire Valley, at the historic Chateau Le Grippault.
A hybrid video and live Q+A covering the crucial first steps of setting up and working in a perfume lab and making perfume compositions.
Train your nose by smelling important fragrance materials in different scent families in this in person introduction to perfume materials.
Perfumer Julianne Lee leads a four week course exploring crucial green and spicy materials in the perfumers' organ. In person at IAO.
In this online class, perfumer Ashley Eden Kessler teaches perfume composition with an exploration of a milky, summery fig accord.
Come join your fellow enthusiasts and blend in community with plenty of new aromatic materials to discover. Returning students only.
In this online class, perfumer Ashley Eden Kessler teaches perfume composition with an exploration of a juicy, sweet mango accord.
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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