Perfume Education and Experimentation
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!
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!
Charles Rosenberg explores scents from the IFF x Odeuropa Historical Scent Collection: Pomander, Dutch canal, hell, and more.
Train your nose by smelling important fragrance materials in different scent families in this in person introduction to perfume materials.
Scent Week Los Angeles returns for its second edition, over a glorious week at the end of May. More information to come!
UFO Parfumes kicks off Scent Week with Awareness - a daytime scent rave. Location and RSVP link to be announced.
As our kick-off to Scent Week 2025, the Institute for Art and Olfaction is honored to welcome our guests to IAO Gallery with an exhibition exploring the perfume formula as a cultural and aesthetic artifact. Join us for a welcome reception, at IAO Gallery, with California botanicals provided by Tomorrow.
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.
Our friends at Scent Bar in Downtown LA welcome Scent Week guests for an open house. Head down to The Row, and join fellow perfume enthusiasts to meet (and greet!) perfumers curated by the Scent Bar team
Lakenda Wallace and Rachel Binder present an evening of sensory delight: An evening of potables, perfume, freshly picked fruit and flowers.
Join us for the special preview party celebrating Scent Fair LA and be among the first to experience the various offerings at the fair, including a more intimate shopping experience, open bar, and music!
Join us for Scent Fair LA, a weekend celebrating artisan, independent, and experimental scent practices.
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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