Summer Break
The IAO closes for a two-week summer break. We'll see you in September!
The IAO closes for a two-week summer break. We'll see you in September!
In this online class, perfumer Ashley Eden Kessler teaches perfume composition with a soft, white wood perfume accord. Beginners welcome!
Saskia Wilson-Brown celebrates olfactory gluttony with a perfume-making class that emphasizes brown and tan smells, with a distinctly gourmand edge.
Explores visual-olfactory equivalencies, as Saskia Wilson-Brown teaches a perfume-making class that examines the unfathomable olfactory depths of purple.
Join your fellow perfumers and blend in community with plenty of aromatic materials to discover. Returning students only.
The IAO Gallery is pleased to host From Memory to A Sign من ذكرى إلى علامة by Dana El Masri. This exhibition gathers works created from 2009 to 2026; a constellation of pieces in dialogue with each other across time.
Want to understand and appreciate, and even start to work with perfume? Julianne Lee is here to help in a hands- and noses-on introductory workshop!
This five session online intensive covers the most important information and materials for a new perfumer hoping to start their practice - or for an experienced perfumer who needs to level up their technical skills.
In this online class, perfumer Ashley Eden Kessler teaches perfume composition with a soft, white wood perfume accord. Beginners welcome!
Have you always wanted to visit the IAO, but the happenstance somehow never worked out? Good news: We are pleased to announce regular open hours on Fridays (and also two Saturdays a month) starting in September.
In this perfume genealogy class, Dana El Masri explores fruit materials (incl. peach and mango) and their usage in fine fragrance. In person.
Join Julianne Lee for a low-stakes olfactory game that trains your nose with maximum fun. Let's smell together, and learn while we're laughing!
“बाँस, त्रास और साँस ”: Smell, Endurance, and Breath in Mumbai Taxi Cabs. Yati Sharma explores how Mumbai taxi drivers navigate smell and shared air in the micro-lived-environment of a taxi cabin.
Have you always wanted to visit the IAO, but the happenstance somehow never worked out? Good news: We are pleased to announce regular open hours on Fridays (and also two Saturdays a month) starting in September.
Minetta Rogers presents a smelling session of box sets, fine fragrances, and other ephemera with an industrial focus. In person.
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