Explores visual-olfactory equivalencies, as Saskia Wilson-Brown teaches a perfume-making class that examines the unfathomable olfactory depths of purple.
Make your own perfume! Shades of Purple (in person)
Make your own perfume! Shades of Yellow (in person)
Saskia Wilson-Brown celebrates the solar season with a perfume-making class that emphasizes yellow smells: Sunshine, peaches, honey! In person.
Make your own perfume! Shades of Blue (in person)
Saskia Wilson-Brown leads a class covering scent creation and formula expansion: Make a new perfume that explores the color blue. In person.
Make your own perfume! Shades of Green (in person)
Saskia Wilson-Brown leads a class covering scent creation and formula expansion: Let’s make a new perfume that explores facets of green. In person.
The Art and Craft of Perfumery: History, Extraction, and Formulation Intensive
Ernesto Collado, Spyros Drosopoulos and Saskia Wilson-Brown combine their areas of expertise to present a six day perfume intensive that approaches the practice with a holistic and inclusive lens. At Mas Flaquer, a regenerative farm in Catalonia, Spain.
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.
Our very first video
Back in 2012, we recorded our very first video: a wide-eyed plea for help to launch the IAO. We recently found it in our old hard drives, and share it here, with you!
WPC TALK
In June 2018, IAO founder Saskia Wilson-Brown gave a talk at the World Perfumery Congress about a new initiative exploring alternatives for current IP structures as they relate to historic and independent perfumery. Here are the slides and Saskia’s presenter notes, shared under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License