Perfume Education and Experimentation
A special session celebrating Valentine's Day through the art and craft of making perfume. Beginners welcome!
In this online class, perfumer Ashley Eden Kessler teaches perfume composition with traditional amber and amber DNA perfume accords.
Minetta Rogers leads a special session celebrating Valentine's Day with the art and craft of making perfume. Beginners welcome!
Saskia Wilson-Brown presents a smell-enlivened lecture series demonstrating perfumery's impact on creative and cultural expression, at Philosophical Research Society. In the first talk, we explore how humans have used scent to understand seduction and desire.
Minetta Rogers presents a three-part class that incorporates smelling, reading, and perfume-blending sessions, exploring the aldehydic floral perfume category.
Maxwell Williams joins us in an Olfactory Provocation, presenting an exegesis around scent, currency, and government intervention. Online.
Perfumer Dana El Masri explores ambery and balsamic materials in perfumery, including benzoin, frankincense, myrrh, peru balsam, and styrax.
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!
Minetta Rogers leads a nose-training session spent smelling important aromatic materials of the scent families. This in-person introduction to perfume materials is open to all levels of experience.
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!
IAO's Minetta Rogers curates a shelf at Friday Gallery, exploring surrealism in scent. In person.
In this online class, perfumer Ashley Eden Kessler teaches perfume composition with a beachy, dry ambergris perfume accord.
For first time visitors to the IAO, our open sessions present a guided introduction to working with scent - with hands-on blending time!
Join your fellow perfumers and blend in community with plenty of aromatic materials to discover. Returning students only.
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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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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