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Category Archive: Scent Culture News

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Gallery exhibition at Berlin: Perfume in art & fashion

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Michael Müller, best known as a sculptor, shows in his recent exhibition at the Berlin based gallery Thomas Schulte a series of small sculptures taking the form of perfumes, soaps etc. The perfume contains a drop of the artist’s sweat as Michael Müller remarks in an interview:

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Posted on 20/06/201713/06/2018 exhibitionScent Culture News
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Narratives describing smells

How do your headphones smell?

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Have you ever noticed how your headphones smell? Do you expect a review of headphones talking about the olfactory qualities of the product? The recent review by Wired demonstrates the necessity of a multisensory product design:

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Posted on 18/04/201703/03/2018 Scent Culture News

Criminalizing food odors in Italy!

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Food odors frequently provoke and trigger public debate on olfactory tolerance. There is a current case on food odors in Italy.

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Posted on 06/04/201703/03/2018 Scent Culture News

Deo-odorizing can be dangerous

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The Times recently reported that a schoolgirl died after being overcome by fumes from her deodorant while on a family holiday:

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Posted on 03/04/201703/03/2018 Scent Culture News

New Materials for de-odorizing the fashion world

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Wool-blend tees are promoted for keeping your outdoor stink-free as Wired reported:

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Posted on 01/04/201722/10/2018 Scent Culture News

If your scent wrote a song…

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Studio Folie is an olfactive design studio founded by Kaya Sorhaindo. It is known for projects that inscribe new meaning long associated with classical perfumery such as Le Cinema Olfactif .  

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Posted on 31/03/201706/03/2018 Scent Culture News

Scent as a medium in contemporary art

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Artist and writer Catherine Haley Epstein, provides an overview on the role of scent in contemporary art  on Temporary Art Review. What is interesting is the broader storyline:

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Posted on 31/03/201704/03/2018 Scent Culture News

Virtual reality, digital lives & the interest in smell

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A feature on some recent developments with respect to scent culture appeared in The Guardian on 16 September 2016: “technology addiction makes us crave smells”.

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Posted on 29/03/201703/03/2018 Scent Culture News

The problem with pleasure!

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Scents and in particular fragrances are often discussed as enjoable and pleasurable experiences. Thus this recent scholarly book deserves a closer look when discussing Huxley’s feelies or James Joyce and the scent of modernity.

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Posted on 28/03/201703/03/2018 Scent Culture News

Olfactory language in British fiction

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Scent has so far remained largely sidelined into the context of the eighteenth-century novel. Reading Smell by Emily Friedman and published in 2016 provides models for how to incorporate olfactory knowledge into new readings of the literary form central to our understanding of the eighteenth century and modernity in general: the novel.

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Posted on 28/03/201703/03/2018 Scent Culture News

Perfumism, manifesto – 2010?

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In 2010, Andy Tauer  reflected on his observations as a perfumer and initiated perfumism.com.

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Posted on 28/03/201721/01/2018 Scent Culture News

Scent Verse: Muse Booze

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Scent Verse is a inspiring poetry project on Basenotes curated by writer Eddie Bulliqi.

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Posted on 27/03/201712/03/2018 Scent Culture News

Fragrance manifesto by Christophe Laudamiel (2017)

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Christophe Laudamiel once again shakes the industry and the field as a whole:

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Posted on 27/03/201704/03/2018 Scent Culture News

Beyond the little trees

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The air freshener Little Tree epitomizes the state of contemporary scent culture. This might sound provocative.

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Posted on 25/03/201703/03/2018 Scent Culture News

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