Perfume Education and Experimentation
Calling all perfumers! Scent Fair LA returns for its fourth edition, taking place between May 30 – June 1, 2025, at Craft Contemporary in Los Angeles, CA. We’re thrilled to open the call to perfumers and scent practitioners from around the world.
Want to understand and appreciate, and even start to work with perfume? We're here to help in a hands- and noses-on introductory workshop!
Join us for a library volunteer session, assigning keywords to our books on perfume and scent.
Ashley Eden Kessler covers the crucial first steps of setting up and working in a perfume lab and making perfume compositions. This class is a hybrid video and live online Q+A.
Danial Krasofski presents an interpretive class exploring the Jean Carles approach to form and perfume composition for returning students.
For first time visitors to the IAO, our open sessions present a guided introduction to working with scent - with hands-on blending time!
Want to understand and appreciate, and even start to work with perfume? We're here to help in a hands- and noses-on introductory workshop!
For first time visitors to the IAO, our open sessions present a guided introduction to working with scent - with hands-on blending time!
Ashley Eden Kessler teaches technical perfumery and composition with a thorough exploration of two jasmine accords.
Train your nose by smelling important fragrance materials in different scent families in this in person introduction to perfume materials.
Art historian Jessica Murphy joins the Institute for Art and Olfaction for a discussion of her olfactory research and museum work.
Want to understand and appreciate, and even start to work with perfume? Julianne Lee is here to help in a hands- and noses-on introductory workshop!
Charles Rosenberg presents a smelling session of fine fragrances keyed to the release of Viscose Journal 07. In person.
Ashley Eden Kessler teaches technical perfumery and composition with a thorough exploration of a rose accord.
Join us for a special perfumery workshop for beginners, as Minetta Rogers leads us through the joyful smells of spring.
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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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