The Institute for Art and Olfaction hosts private and semi-private group sessions for small groups looking to learn in a private setting, or for groups from museums, sales teams, university classes, social clubs, corporations, non-profits and more.
See below for more information, and email us at hello@artandolfaction.com for our rate sheets.
SESSIONS OPTIONS
PROJECT CONSULTATION
ONE-ON-ONE OR PROJECT TEAMS
Our consultation sessions with IAO staff and partners can range from 1 to 3 hours, and are designed to help you make sense of a specific scent-related project or initiative, from a new perfume business to an installation at a gallery. This is a chance for you to obtain clear sales-agnostic answers on some of your questions, whether they relate to scent construction, propagation, the business of perfumery, or anything else.
PRIVATE OR SEMI-PRIVATE SESSION
BETWEEN 2 – 5 PEOPLE
Our individual or semi-private sessions are a chance to obtain hands-on experience and one-on-one training with a range of professionals in topics geared to your specific needs.
GROUP SESSIONS
6 PEOPLE+
Our small group workshops are flexible, informative, honest, hands-on, and fun. We can tailor them to your group’s specific needs, but most often, they include one to two of our educational modules.
PRIVATE AND GROUP SESSION MODULES
We offer several “modules” of knowledge. Please feel free to mix and match, to meet your group’s needs.
MODULE I. UNDERSTANDING PERFUMERY: FROM MATERIALS TO PRACTICE
An overview of perfumery and perfume materials: From accords to synthetics to diluents. Topics covered include a basic history of perfumery, an explanation of the aromatic materials, and an overlook of the fine fragrance and functional fragrance industry (mainstream and niche). We also cover unconventional and emerging practices in scent, including art practices, scented storytelling, and retail and environmental scenting.
MODULE II. SMELLING SESSION + NOSE TRAINING
Smell the materials, learn about their provenance, learn about fragrance classification, and stretch our collective vocabulary and knowledge of scent. As a group, we discuss each aromatic component, and assess their impact and emotional associations for us as individuals.
MODULE III. CREATIVE PERFUMERY: INDIVIDUAL BLENDING SESSION
Each participant has a chance to select five or six materials and create a formula according to their own brief. Each student then blends their own individual formula into a 3ml spray vial. The IAO curates a selection of between 12 – 24 scents that cover the major fragrance families (e.g. floral, ozonic, woody, animalic, etc), as well as a selection of newer aroma-molecules that are, for all intents and purposes, unclassifiable. Materials are adapted to the group’s particular needs.
SPECIAL TOPICS
What is your group interested in? We can adjust materials selection, topics, and discussion to your specific needs.
All sessions start with a brief discussion about health and safety.
We can host up to 16 people at a time in our space, for three hour sessions. We also often visit external spaces, and can accommodate as many people as your space will hold.
CONTACT US
To book a private group session, for more information about customizing the session to your needs, or for our rates, please contact us at hello@artandolfaction.com. We’ll get back to you in a jiffy.