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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.

Open Session for first-timers (in person) – SOLD OUT

For first time visitors to the IAO, our open sessions present a guided introduction to working with scent – with hands-on blending time!

Eleven Week Materials Course, Module 3 (online)

Ashley Eden Kessler leads an eleven-week session exploring crucial materials in the perfumers’ organ: an indispensable first step in practicing perfumery and an opportunity to grow a technical familiarity with the materials.

Martial’s Zingers

The Roman satirist Martial often wrote of scent in disparaging terms: perfume, for him, was strongly equated with the ridiculous, the false, the pretentious, and – often (but not always) – the feminine. Read a few choice epigram, here.

Field Notes from Virginia: The Stabler-Leadbeater Apothecary Museum

IAO Board Member Rubia Chaudri and director Saskia Wilson-Brown recently visited Alexandria, Virginia, and went on a tour of a beautiful (and definitely haunted) historic apothecary. In this post, Saskia shares what they learned during their tour of the Stabler-Leadbeater Apothecary Museum.