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:
Criminalizing food odors in Italy!
Food odors frequently provoke and trigger public debate on olfactory tolerance. There is a current case on food odors in Italy.
Deo-odorizing can be dangerous
The Times recently reported that a schoolgirl died after being overcome by fumes from her deodorant while on a family holiday:
New Materials for de-odorizing the fashion world
Wool-blend tees are promoted for keeping your outdoor stink-free as Wired reported:
If your scent wrote a song…
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 .
Scent as a medium in contemporary art
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:
Virtual reality, digital lives & the interest in smell
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”.
The problem with pleasure!
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.
Olfactory language in British fiction
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...
Perfumism, manifesto – 2010?
In 2010, Andy Tauer reflected on his observations as a perfumer and initiated perfumism.com.
Scent Verse: Muse Booze
Scent Verse is a inspiring poetry project on Basenotes curated by writer Eddie Bulliqi.
Fragrance manifesto by Christophe Laudamiel (2017)
Christophe Laudamiel once again shakes the industry and the field as a whole:
Beyond the little trees
The air freshener Little Tree epitomizes the state of contemporary scent culture. This might sound provocative.
Olfactory Magazine “NEZ” in English
The emergence of publications have always been milestones for the development of fields and discourses. Thus the publication of an English speaking olfactory magazine is of significance. Bringing together articles, interviews, surveys and critical analysis with an olfactory focus, NEZ challenges us to use our noses to explore the world.
Olfactory Art by Peter de Cupere
After 20 year of working with scent this new book provides an overview of Peter de Cuper’s oeuvre.
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