Perfume Education and Experimentation
Join the IAO team to explore scent interpretations of artworks at Getty Center’s annual College Night: An after-hours celebration exclusively for college students—featuring art, food, music, behind-the-scenes experiences, artmaking, and more.
J.W. Dotson leads a multisensory fragrance lecture merging scent, sound, color, and 1960’s Hollywood mysticism.
Hsuan L. Hsu shares his research for his new book ‘Olfactory Worldmaking’, exploring how smell reshapes human connections, and resists racial and colonial capitalist systems.
We welcome our fragrant community as we announce the finalists for the 12th Art and Olfaction Awards. Join us!
Researcher Radel James Gacumo joins the IAO to share his research into early childhood literacy and sensory studies. Online.
Join Julianne Lee for a low-stakes olfactory game that trains your nose with maximum fun. Let’s learn together!
Saskia Wilson-Brown leads a class covering scent creation and formula expansion: Let’s make ourselves a new perfume, Roman-style.
In this perfume genealogy class, Dana El Masri explores woody materials including cedarwood, guaiacwood and sandalwood, and their usage in fine fragrance. Online.
Join Minetta Rogers for a guided blending session celebrating the agrestic and equine through the art and craft of making perfume. Beginners-friendly, in person.