My quest to find the great American perfume | The Guardian
From France to Dubai, scent is viewed as high art – but not in America. What is it about US’s relationship to smell that puts it so far behind in this field?
Category Archives: Scent Culture Monitor
Peter de Cupere: Eau de Cocoa
A purifying mask with chocolate filters? Yes, please! Thanks to the inexhaustible Peter de Cupere: A chocolate perfume good enough to eat? Continue reading Peter de Cupere: Eau de Cocoa
Eau de Cocoa – edible perfume | In-Imitable
A chocolate perfume good enough to eat? A purifying mask with chocolate filters? Yes, please! Thanks to the inexhaustible Peter de Cupere.Â
You can order the Eau de Cocoa here. Costs: 69€ per bottle.
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Francis Kurkdjian & Fabien Ducher: New perfume rose
Together, a fragrance legend and a horticultural pioneer have cultivated what could be the first new perfume rose in more than a century. Continue reading Francis Kurkdjian & Fabien Ducher: New perfume rose
Francis Kurkdjian and Fabien Ducher, Changing History in a Bottle – The New York Times
Together, a fragrance legend and a horticultural pioneer have cultivated what could be the first new perfume rose in more than a century.
The new rose above was created by the nose Francis Kurkdjian and the breeder Fabien Ducher. They spent six years ferreting out the ancestral chains of Damask and May roses to develop their hybrid, which they call Nevarte.
Atmospheric fingerprints
Human interaction includes contact with the bacterial universe of another person ejected into the air: Continue reading Atmospheric fingerprints
A Unique Perfume-Cloud of Bacteria Follows You Wherever You Go — NOVA Next | PBS
Looks like we’re not that different from flowers after all. We each have our own odor “cloud” or headspace. Probably won’t be long before headspace technology can create a concentrated “Eau de You”!
via FRAGments
Smell and Art – an introductory course to olfactory art
Maki Ueda will be giving a 3 weeks course on olfactory art titled “How to Confuse Your Senses†in The Netherlands. Continue reading Smell and Art – an introductory course to olfactory art
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Olfactory Games – “Smell and Art – an introductory course to olfactory art†– YouTube
Maki Ueda will be giving a 3 weeks course on olfactory art titled “How to Confuse Your Senses†in The Netherlands. Above is the final presentations of Ueda’s “Smell and Art – an introductory course to olfactory artâ€, at Interfaculty Art Science, an interfaculty of Royal Academy of Arts and Royal Conservatory, The Hague.
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An Appetite for Innovation: Harvard’s David Edwards talks to Nautilus about how ideas can change the world.
David Edwards (inventor of the oPhone), sits down with Gayil Nalls (interdisciplinary artist) to discuss innovation. Both are brilliant minds, working with scent.