Perfume Education and Experimentation
Want to understand, appreciate, and even start to work with perfume? Minetta Rogers teaches the basics, in this introduction to perfumery.
For first time visitors to the IAO, our open sessions present a guided introduction to working with scent - with hands-on blending time! Two sessions added for November.
In a scent-enlivened session, Dana El Masri explores the signatures and styles developed by Sophia Grojsman over the course of her career.
In this online class, perfumer Ashley Eden Kessler teaches perfume composition with an exploration of a rich vanilla absolute accord.
Perfumer Michael Nordstrand covers creative development for perfumery with a deep dive into the creative brief, over three online sessions, with homework in between.
In this 3-part course with Atlas Obscura, Saskia Wilson-Brown leads an information-rich introduction to the practice of experimental perfumery.
In this online class, perfumer Ashley Eden Kessler teaches perfume composition with an exploration of an animalic honey accord.
In this 3-part course with Atlas Obscura, Saskia Wilson-Brown leads an information-rich introduction to the practice of experimental perfumery.
For returning students! Join your fellow perfumers and blend in community with plenty of aromatic materials to discover. In person, led by Julianne Lee.
Dana El Masri leads an exploration of animalics and musks in fine fragrance, as we smell our way through the genealogy of perfume.
Join us for 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.
Danial Krasofski presents an interpretive class that explores the Jean Carles approach to form and perfume composition.
Dr. Claire Bunschoten explores concepts of longing that often circulate with gourmand fragrances, tracing the negotiation of nostalgia from the emergence of this fragrance family to odes composed to Bath and Body Works’ Warm Vanilla Sugar.
In this 3-part course with Atlas Obscura, Saskia Wilson-Brown leads an information-rich introduction to the practice of experimental perfumery.
Train your nose by smelling important fragrance materials in different scent families in this in person introduction to perfume materials, led by Julianne Lee.
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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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