Unconventional Perfume Blending: Old Books Accord (in person)
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Gather, ye bibliophiles! Who hasn’t walked into a library with vaulted ceilings and inhaled the cozy, somewhat musty smell of old books? The nostalgia, the sweetness, the mysteries promised by the faded words on yellowed pages…
In “Unconventional Perfume Blending: Old Books,” led by instructor Julianne Lee, we’ll start by enjoying some perfumes from the IAO Collections that feature the note of old books. Next, we’ll smell a bevy of molecules and natural materials that evoke old books in their many forms: dusty, sweet, warm, woody, leathery, inky. We’ll play with those materials and practice balancing a formula. Is your old book a pristine first-edition preserved in a collector’s sleeve, or a tome unearthed from an elven dwelling?
We recommend having at least one IAO class under your belt, but beginners are completely welcome. By the end of class, you’ll leave with your own formula for an old book accord in hand, along with a working understanding of accord-building that you can apply to any other fragrance notes.
Topics covered:
+ A breakdown of the scent of old books in the language of aromamolecules
+ An opportunity to smell perfumes from the IAO Collections that feature old books
+ Accord-creation: ratios, proportions, evaluation
Take-Aways:
+ Your own working formula of an old-book accord to take home
+ Small 5/8 dram vials of your experimental trials
+ A greater understanding of the nuances of the scent of old books
+ A foundational method for building accords
+ Hands-on experience with blending techniques
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