Perfume Education and Experimentation
In this 3-part course with Atlas Obscura, Saskia Wilson-Brown leads an information-rich introduction to the practice of experimental perfumery.
Visit IAO Library and Gallery during our winter open hours. We can't wait to meet you!
In this online class, perfumer Ashley Eden Kessler teaches perfume composition with an exploration of an animalic honey accord.
Visit IAO Library and Gallery during our winter open hours. We can't wait to meet you!
Want to understand and appreciate, and even start to work with perfume? We're here to help in an introductory perfume blending workshop led by Julianne Lee.
IAO Gallery presents a multisensory installation by Minetta Rogers, in conversation with MFK Fisher’s 1924 essay, The First Oyster. Join us for the opening event!
In this 3-part course with Atlas Obscura, Saskia Wilson-Brown leads an information-rich introduction to the practice of experimental perfumery.
For returning students! Join your fellow perfumers and blend in community with plenty of aromatic materials to discover. In person, led by Julianne Lee.
Visit IAO Library and Gallery during our winter open hours. We can't wait to meet you!
Dana El Masri leads an exploration of animalics and musks in fine fragrance, as we smell our way through the genealogy of perfume.
Join us for a hybrid video and live Q+A covering the crucial first steps of setting up and working in a perfume lab and making perfume compositions.
Visit IAO Library and Gallery during our winter open hours. We can't wait to meet you!
Danial Krasofski presents an interpretive class that explores the Jean Carles approach to form and perfume composition.
Dr. Claire Bunschoten explores concepts of longing that often circulate with gourmand fragrances, tracing the negotiation of nostalgia from the emergence of this fragrance family to odes composed to Bath and Body Works’ Warm Vanilla Sugar.
In this 3-part course with Atlas Obscura, Saskia Wilson-Brown leads an information-rich introduction to the practice of experimental perfumery.
Train your nose by smelling important fragrance materials in different scent families in this in person introduction to perfume materials, led by Julianne Lee.
Visit IAO Library and Gallery during our winter open hours. We can't wait to meet you!
IAO Library curator Charles Rosenberg presents a smelling session, exploring perfume box sets This session benefits the IAO Library and its related programs. (in person)
In this online class, perfumer Ashley Eden Kessler teaches perfume composition with an exploration of an dusty, echoey, resinous old church incense accord.
Visit IAO Library and Gallery during our winter open hours. We can't wait to meet you!
Want to understand, appreciate, and even start to work with perfume? Minetta Rogers teaches the basics, in this introduction to perfumery.
The IAO team is taking the end of the year to reflect, relax, and make plans. See you in January!
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