Perfume Education and Experimentation
Perfumer Lakenda Wallace explores traditional and machine methods for extracting oil from botanical materials for use in perfumery. Online.
Hsuan L. Hsu shares his research for his new book 'Olfactory Worldmaking', exploring how smell reshapes human connections, and resists racial and colonial capitalist systems.
Perfumer Jeffrey Paul introduces blending techniques for natural perfumery, with a focus on citrus materials and eau de cologne.
Explore aromatics and perfumes from 'Perfume: The Story of a Murderer', in an in-person smelling session that draws from the IAO library.
In this perfume genealogy class, Dana El Masri explores uncommon floral materials (hyacinth, narcissus, osmanthus) and their usage in fine fragrance. Online.
In this online class, perfumer Ashley Eden Kessler teaches perfume composition with a fresh, long-lasting citrus accord.
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.
Ashley Eden Kessler returns with her popular accord series, teaching perfume composition with a briny, salty marine accord.
In this online class, perfumer Ashley Eden Kessler teaches perfume composition with a soft, white wood perfume accord. Beginners welcome!
Spyros Drospopoulos and the IAO team up for the latest of our popular perfume intensives, taking place in France's beautiful Loire Valley.
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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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