Perfume Education and Experimentation
Perfumer and writer Mandy Aftel joins IAO's Saskia Wilson-Brown for a discussion about her new book, Symbolorum: The Secret Wisdom. Online.
Join us online for a fascinating talk on how fragrance molecules are created with artist and researcher Sean Raspet.
Perfumer Spyros Drosopoulos (Baruti) joins IAO founder Saskia Wilson-Brown in the latest edition of our free-wheeling conversation series, Meet a Nose.
Perfumer Lakenda Wallace explores theories around scent's impact on behavior change. Can our sense of smell help us break our bad habits?
In this online class, perfumer Ashley Eden Kessler teaches perfume composition with a soft, dark, polished leather perfume accord.
Join perfumer and writer Pia Long for an author reading and discussion about her new book, DEMO ACCORDS. Online.
Ashley Eden Kessler leads an eleven week session exploring crucial materials in the perfumers' organ. Class includes materials kit. Online.
Perfumer Dana El Masri explores green woods and green resin materials, and their scents in fine fragrance in a perfume genealogy class.
In this online class, perfumer Ashley Eden Kessler teaches perfume composition with a dry, woody, pipe tobacco perfume accord.
Join us for an online orientation for newcomers to the field of perfumery, from perfume basics to setting up and working in a perfume lab, in a three part course that blends live instrucion, pre-recorded video, and a Q&A.
In this online class, perfumer Ashley Eden Kessler teaches perfume composition with traditional amber and amber DNA perfume accords.
Maxwell Williams joins us in an Olfactory Provocation, presenting an exegesis around scent, currency, and government intervention. Online.
In this online class, perfumer Ashley Eden Kessler teaches perfume composition with a beachy, dry ambergris perfume accord.
Aachen-based professor Dr. Sergej Rickenbacher joins the IAO to share his research into olfaction and its reflection in literature. Online.
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