Perfume Education and Experimentation
Saskia Wilson-Brown covers best lab practices: how to make a solution, how to use a scale, how to store materials, safety, and more.
Open hours for 'Death Tastes Plastic' by Sarana Mehra. In this exhibition, Mehra explores the tensions between the mythic & extant realities of death, dying and survival at the end of the Anthropocene.
Scholar Giti Datt shares her current research on Indian attars in a scent-enlivened lecture with an emphasis on gulab (rose) and mitti (earth). In person, at IAO.
Join your fellow perfumers and blend in community with plenty of aromatic materials to discover. Returning students only.
Train your nose by smelling important fragrance materials in different scent families in this in person introduction to perfume materials.
Dana El Masri leads an exploration of desserts in fine fragrance and perfumery: smell your way through the genealogy of perfume.
Open hours for 'Death Tastes Plastic' by Sarana Mehra. In this exhibition, Mehra explores the tensions between the mythic & extant realities of death, dying and survival at the end of the Anthropocene.
For first time visitors to the IAO, our open sessions present a guided introduction to working with scent - with hands-on blending time! Two sessions added for November.
Artist Sarana Mehra returns to the IAO Gallery for her exhibition: Death Tastes Plastic. Join us for the opening reception.
Dana El Masri leads an exploration of dark woods in fine fragrance and perfumery: smell your way through the genealogy of perfume.
Dr. Leslie M. Kay joins the Institute for Art and Olfaction for an in person lecture about her research into scent and brain health.
A special session celebrating Halloween, for enthusiasts of the art and craft of making perfume.
A special session celebrating Halloween, for enthusiasts of the art and craft of making perfume.
Want to understand, appreciate, and even start to work with perfume? Minetta Rogers teaches the basics, in this introduction to perfumery.
Perfumer Sarah Horowitz-Thran discusses how MoCRA guidelines and other regulations may affect your creative perfumery practice, in this in-person introduction.
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