Perfume Education and Experimentation
Our longest-running program, open sessions present a guided introduction to working with scent - with hands-on blending time!
Join a host of speakers - including IAO's Saskia Wilson-Brown - at Osmocosm conference at MIT in Cambridge, MA.
Perfumer Michael Nordstrand covers creative development for perfumery with a deep dive into the creative brief over three online sessions.
IAO visits Washington DC for a weekend fragrance symposium at Qatar America Institute for Culture.
Dr. Kate Cherrell discusses the séance and modern spiritualism, its sensorial elements, and its transformative effects. Part of the Scent and Society series, online.
Want to understand and appreciate, and even start to work with perfume? We're here to help in a hands- and noses-on workshop for newcomers to the practice.
Our longest-running program, open sessions present a guided introduction to working with scent - with hands-on blending time!
In this online class, perfumer Ashley Eden Kessler teaches perfume composition with an exploration of a sandalwood accord.
A special blending session celebrating the sweet and scary scents of the season, for beginners new to the art and craft of making perfume. Tickets go live October 1.
Perfumer Michael Nordstrand covers creative development for perfumery with a deep dive into the creative brief over three online sessions.
Join us for a scent concert with Brian Goeltzenleuchter and Sean Francis Conway inspired by Septimus Piesse's Odophone at Craft Contemporary. Two performances available.
Join us for a scent concert with Brian Goeltzenleuchter and Sean Francis Conway inspired by Septimus Piesse's Odophone at Craft Contemporary. Two performances available.
Get spooky on Halloween as IAO invites our returning students to explore, experiment, and create scents inspired by Nosferatu. Costumes encouraged!
An open lab for advanced beginner and intermediate perfumers. Bring your own materials or use ours, and blend with new friends.
Perfumer Michael Nordstrand covers creative development for perfumery with a deep dive into the creative brief over three online sessions.
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