Open Session: First Timers Only (in person)
Open Session: First Timers Only (in person)
For first time visitors to the IAO, our open sessions present a guided introduction to working with scent - with hands-on blending time!
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 a two-day intensive exploring how to construct crucial floral perfume accords: rose, jasmine, orange blossom.
Ashley Eden Kessler leads a two-day intensive exploring how to construct crucial floral perfume accords: rose, jasmine, orange blossom.
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.
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.
Back by popular demand! Scent enthusiasts Jack and Natalie host a smell-led exploration of Los Angeles' spectacular Griffith Park.
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 led by Julianne Lee.
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.
Dana El Masri leads an exploration of dark woods in fine fragrance and perfumery: smell your way through the genealogy of perfume.
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