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ODOU issue 4 out now!

Odou is the only magazine dedicated to smell and perfume through creative writing, photography and design. The issue is exclusively available for print.

In issue 4 we go on a chronological perfume narrative. Beginning with raw materials like ambergris and myrtle,  Mandy Aftel and Hector Villeda-Martinez describe what makes them unique.

We go to perfume school with Dana El Masri, where she shares the inner workings of her time at the Grasse Institute of Perfumery, and Writer John Preston fears he’s smelled the last great Comme des Garçons fragrance – understandably.

Perfumer and Writer Pia Long wants us to move on from ingredients lists, focusing on the beauty of the perfumes themselves, whilst Persolaise is searching for weird and otherworldly perfumes in the mainstream market. Brooke Belldon shares her joy for perfume events with illustrations by Massimo Alfaioli, and lastly, Alex Musgrave delivers a series of stunning scent shorts and visuals. 

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What the nose knows…

This Fall, many of you may be teaching a course on sensation and perception or lecturing on scent culture. Why not put What the Nose Knows: The Science of Scent in Everyday Life on your reading list (as we did!)? It’s an entertaining way to introduce students to classical topics such as odor memory and identification, important aroma molecules, history of scent measurement, and more. Continue reading What the nose knows… →

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A review of Tate Britain’s Sensorium ~ by Eddie Bulliqi — Basenotes.net

“I will not forget this exhibition any time soon, and this is one of its strengths. However, I still don’t feel that it truly achieved its aim of ‘encouraging a new approach to interpreting artworks’. Facetious as this comment may be, of course the technology and stimuli behind this project will alter the experience you have in front of the painting, simply because it’s not where it normally is in a white room…”

Read more at: http://www.basenotes.net/features/3179-a-review-of-tate-britains-sensorium