Perfume Education and Experimentation
As our kick-off to Scent Week 2025, the Institute for Art and Olfaction is honored to welcome our guests to IAO Gallery with an exhibition exploring the perfume formula as a cultural and aesthetic artifact. Join us for a welcome reception, at IAO Gallery, with California botanicals provided by Tomorrow.
Halston Bruce examines the legacy of Mexico’s most celebrated modern architect through the lens of imposed memory, scent, and performance.
Hannah Marie Marcus presents a confabulatory scented estate sale and ritual reckoning of value.
In its 6th edition, ESS is designed to build community and learning in creative practices with scent. Through informal talks, round tables and workshops, practitioners can share experimental work in an open and unrestrained environment that facilitates collaboration and inquiry. Part of Scent Week LA.
Lakenda Wallace and Rachel Binder present an evening of sensory delight: An evening of potables, perfume, freshly picked fruit and flowers.
The 11th Art and Olfaction Awards return to our hometown of Los Angeles. Join us to celebrate the finalists, and applaud the winners.
Join us for the special preview party celebrating Scent Fair LA and be among the first to experience the various offerings at the fair, including a more intimate shopping experience, open bar, and music!
Join us for Scent Fair LA, a weekend celebrating artisan, independent, and experimental scent practices.
Join us for an artist discussion and exhibition preview for Ether: Aromatic Mythologies, presenting thirteen artists exploring the intersection of mythology, storytelling, art, and scent. (in person)
Join us for Scent Fair LA, a weekend celebrating artisan, independent, and experimental scent practices.
Have you ever been gifted a perfume that just didn’t suit you? Or blind bought a fragrance that left you with fragrets? The Nose Candy Scent Swap is your chance to finally turn that trash into Trésor! The Nose Candy gals host their latest Scent Swap, as part of Scent Week LA.
Join us for an intimate walkthrough of Craft Contemporary's Summer/Fall exhibitions with curators Saskia Wilson-Brown (Ether, Aromatic Mythologies / Maker-in-Residence: The Institute of Art and Olfaction), Joseph D. Valencia (California Community Foundation | FVA 2025), and Kate Yeh Chiu (M&A x Craft Contemporary Courtyard 2025: Light Gauge).
In this online class, perfumer Ashley Eden Kessler teaches perfume composition with an exploration of a sweet, juicy mango accord.
Spyros Drosopoulos, Ernesto Collado and Saskia WIlson-Brown lead a 6 day in person workshop at Mas Flaquer, a regenerative farm outside Barcelona, highlighting connections between diverse ways of working through a combination of field work, hands-on blending time, and lectures.
Saskia Wilson-Brown leads a deep dive of a historical Eau de Cologne formula. Explore the materials used in a classic version of the perfume, and recreate your own. In person.
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