For first time visitors to the IAO, our open sessions present a guided introduction to working with scent – with hands-on blending time!
Open Sessions: First Timers Only
Open Sessions: Returning Students Only (in person)
Join your fellow perfumers and blend in community with plenty of aromatic materials to discover. Returning students only.
Tracing Perfume: A Genealogy of All Things Green Perfumes (in person)
Perfumer Dana El Masri explores green woods, resins, green materials, and their scents in fine fragrance in a perfume genealogy class.
Experimental Work with Scent (online)
Learn the basics of perfumery, explore aromatic materials, and create your first short perfume formulas in a three-part seminar. (online)
Perfume 202 + 303: Video Lectures + Live Q&A (online)
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.
Orange Blossom: Perfume Accords (online)
In this online class, perfumer Ashley Eden Kessler teaches perfume composition with an exploration of an orange blossom accord.
Open Sessions: Returning Students Only (In person)
Join your fellow perfumers and blend in community with plenty of aromatic materials to discover. Returning students only.
Perfume Accords: Ambergris (online)
In this online class, perfumer Ashley Eden Kessler teaches perfume composition with an exploration of ambergris.
Perfume Accords: Leather (online)
In this online class, perfumer Ashley Eden Kessler teaches perfume composition with an exploration of a soft, dark, polished leather accord. Materials required.