Perfume Education and Experimentation
Perfumer Spyros Drosopoulos (Baruti) joins IAO founder Saskia Wilson-Brown in the latest edition of our free-wheeling conversation series, Meet a Nose.
Join us for an artist talk with Joe Merrell, and celebrate the closing of his solo exhibition, 'Happy Accidents'.
Perfumer Lakenda Wallace explores theories around scent's impact on behavior change. Can our sense of smell help us break our bad habits?
Saskia Wilson-Brown leads a class covering scent creation and formula expansion: Let's make ourselves a new perfume for the new year!
Learn the basics of perfumery, explore important aromatic materials, and create your first short perfume formulas: Saskia returns with her popular three-part perfumery course. (online)
In this online class, perfumer Ashley Eden Kessler teaches perfume composition with a soft, dark, polished leather perfume accord.
Join perfumer and writer Pia Long for an author reading and discussion about her new book, DEMO ACCORDS. Online.
Ashley Eden Kessler leads an eleven week session exploring crucial materials in the perfumers' organ. Class includes materials kit. Online.
Perfumer Dana El Masri explores green woods and green resin materials, and their scents in fine fragrance in a perfume genealogy class.
In this online class, perfumer Ashley Eden Kessler teaches perfume composition with a dry, woody, pipe tobacco perfume accord.
MIcah Anderson presents an olfactory journey through agarwood. Join us to experience various facets of this extraordinary material, enlivened by deep contextual knowledge.
Saskia Wilson-Brown leads a class covering scent creation and formula expansion: Let's make ourselves a new perfume for love!
Join your fellow perfumers and blend in community with plenty of aromatic materials to discover. Returning students only.
Join us for an online orientation for newcomers to the field of perfumery, from perfume basics to setting up and working in a perfume lab, in a three part course that blends live instrucion, pre-recorded video, and a Q&A.
For first time visitors to the IAO, our open sessions present a guided introduction to working with scent - with hands-on blending time!
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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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