Perfume Education and Experimentation
Are you a librarian, library worker, library science student or archivist with basic knowledge of the Library of Congress Cataloguing system? The IAO Library needs you!
Want to understand and appreciate, and even start to work with perfume? Minetta Rogers is here to help in a hands- and noses-on introductory workshop!
Jeffrey Paul (Aromatic Gourmet) shares the history, making, and tasting of flavored and aromatic salts in this in-person workshop.
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.
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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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