Perfume Education and Experimentation
SOLD OUT! In the spirit of 'Mickalene Thomas: All About Love', the IAO collaborates with the Broad to lead a series of workshops designed to explore the creative practice of working with scent.
SOLD OUT! In the spirit of 'Mickalene Thomas: All About Love', the IAO collaborates with the Broad to lead a series of workshops designed to explore the creative practice of working with scent.
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!
In this online class, perfumer Ashley Eden Kessler teaches perfume composition with an exploration of violet and orris accords.
Dana El Masri leads an exploration of green woods in fine fragrance and perfumery: smell your way through the genealogy of perfume.
Perfumer Rubia Chaudri explores the scents of the Qur'an, in a culture-driven in-person smelling session.
Join your fellow perfumers and blend in community with plenty of aromatic materials to discover. Returning students only.
In a scent-enlivened session, Dana El Masri explores the signatures and styles developed by Edmond Roudnitska over the course of his career.
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!
Join us for the opening of Blended Worlds: Experiments in Interplanetary Imagination, a PST ART exhibition in collaboration with JPL. At Brand Library and Art Center, in Glendale.
Minetta Rogers leads a special blending session celebrating the start of fall, for enthusiasts of the art and craft of making perfume.
Train your nose by smelling important fragrance materials in different scent families in this in person introduction to perfume materials, led by Julianne Lee.
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!
In this online class, perfumer Ashley Eden Kessler teaches perfume composition with an exploration of a sandalwood accord.
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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