Perfume Education and Experimentation
Join us for the very first open purchasing hours at the IAO! The public is invited to peruse our Student Organ and purchase small vials of aromatic materials, along with books and more.
Saskia Wilson-Brown presents a smell-enlivened lecture series demonstrating perfumery's impact on creative and cultural expression, at Philosophical Research Society. In this talk, we explore how humans have used scent to understand magic and the supernatural.
Learn how to create perfume at the IAO’s open sessions: Learn by doing, and make new friends along the way!
Perfumer Dana El Masri explores ambery and balsamic materials in perfumery, focuscing on beeswax, cistus-labdanum, and vanilla.
Perfumer Lakenda Wallace explores the technicalities of creating tinctures and absolutes for perfumery, in an online class.
In this online class, perfumer Ashley Eden Kessler teaches perfume composition with a deep, floral, spicy, rose perfume accord.
In 'Praying to the Gods' at IAO Gallery, artist Persephenie brings together plants, scent, incense, and self-portraiture to explore reverence through the body.
Egyptologist Dora Goldsmith joins the IAO to share her research into the perfumes of queens in ancient Egypt. Online.
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 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.
Saskia Wilson-Brown presents a smell-enlivened lecture series demonstrating perfumery's impact on creative and cultural expression, at Philosophical Research Society. In this talk, we explore how humans have used scent to understand and express power.
Join your fellow perfumers and blend in community with plenty of aromatic materials to discover. Returning students only.
In this online class, perfumer Ashley Eden Kessler teaches perfume composition with a delectable, fresh orange blossom perfume accord.
Interested in working with scent as a perfumer, artist or casual fan? Learn how in this hands- and noses-on introductory blending class.
Join us for open purchasing hours at the IAO! The public is invited to peruse our Student Organ and purchase small vials of aromatic materials, along with books and more.
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