Perfume Education and Experimentation
An open lab for advanced beginner and intermediate perfumers. Bring your own materials or use ours, and blend with new friends.
Ashley Eden Kessler teaches technical perfume composition with an exploration of an incense accord inspired by an old church. Online.
Learn to make your first blends, and get an important introduction to lab work (including using a scale) in a special in-person session led by Saskia Wilson-Brown.
Why is perfumery regulated? Who decides? In this class, Michael Nordstrand explores perfume regulation and how it affects your practice.
Smell important aromatics and make your first blends in an intimate and hands-on session led by IAO founder Saskia Wilson-Brown.
Humans love a flame and neuroscientist Anna D'Errico loves to explore science. This week, flame and science collide in a talk about candles.
Smell important aromatics, learn to make your first blends, and get a primer on labwork in an intimate session led by Saskia Wilson-Brown.
Join us for special blending session celebrating the scents of the season, for beginners new to the art and craft of making perfume.
Join us for special blending session celebrating the scents of the season, for beginners new to the art and craft of making perfume.
Our longest-running program, open sessions present a guided introduction to working with scent - with hands-on blending time!
Mark your calendars! Online submissions are open from Dec. 1 - 31, for the 10th Art and Olfaction Awards.
Our online intensive returns, over six sessions in January 2024. Starting with an introduction to lab work, the 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.
Smell important materials and perfumes as Dana El Masri shares the history and genealogy of the amber, resinous, and balsamic categories, in person at the IAO.
Our online intensive returns, over six sessions in January 2024. Starting with an introduction to lab work, the 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.
Neuroscientist Anna D'Errico lectures on the divergent histories of odorants, perfume, and medicine in an online talk.
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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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