Perfume Education and Experimentation
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.
Botanical perfumer Persephenie leads a class devoted to creating beautiful and aromatic smokable blends. In person.
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.
Egyptologist Dora Goldsmith joins the IAO for the latest talk in the IAO's Olfactory Research Notes series, sharing her research on perfume cones in ancient Egypt.
In this online class, perfumer Ashley Eden Kessler teaches perfume composition with a lovely lily of the valley (muguet) perfume accord.
The 7th edition of Experimental Scent Summit takes place June 9, 2026, at ImpactHub in Athens, Greece.
We are thrilled to celebrate the twelfth edition of the Art and Olfaction Awards at Gazarte Cultural Center, in Athens, Greece.
Ernesto Collado, Spyros Drosopoulos and Saskia Wilson-Brown combine their areas of expertise to present a six day perfume intensive that approaches the practice with a holistic and inclusive lens. At Mas Flaquer, a regenerative farm in Catalonia, Spain.
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