Saskia Wilson-Brown covers best lab practices: how to make a solution, how to use a scale, how to store materials, safety, and more.
Lab work for artisan perfumers – and those who hope to be (in person)
Opening: ‘Blended Worlds: Experiments in Interplanetary Imagination’
Join us for the opening of Blended Worlds: Experiments in Interplanetary Imagination, a PST ART exhibition in collaboration with JPL. At Brand Library and Art Center, in Glendale.
Obsolete Technology: Vinaigres (in person)
Rooted in texts from the IAO Library, this series explores historic techniques no longer in common usage and historic formulas. Class one explores ‘vinaigres de toilette’ – or cosmetic vinegara.
Open Sessions: First Timers Only, April (in person)
For first time visitors to the IAO, our open sessions present a guided introduction to working with scent – with hands-on blending time!
Introduction to perfumery: small group blending (in person)
Smell important aromatics and make your first blends in an intimate and hands-on session led by IAO founder Saskia Wilson-Brown.
Lab Work + Blending Session (in person)
Learn to make your first blends, and get an important introduction to lab work (including using a scale) in a special in-person session led by Saskia Wilson-Brown.
Introduction to perfumery: small group blending (in person)
Smell important aromatics, learn to make your first blends, and get a primer on labwork in an intimate session led by Saskia Wilson-Brown.
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.
Osmocosm @ MIT (in person)
Join a host of speakers – including IAO’s Saskia Wilson-Brown – at Osmocosm conference at MIT in Cambridge, MA.