Art

5th Experimental Scent Summit: Olfactory culture under the Lisbon sky

On 6 June 2024, the 5th Experimental Scent Summit, organised by the Los Angeles-based Institute for Art and Olfaction, took place in Lisbon. A day teeming with encounters between researchers, artists and perfumers from all over the world who shared research and ideas about olfactory culture.

Olfactory Culture

Christophe Laudamiel: “50% of perfumery is plagiarism or remixes, it’s time to adopt a code of ethics”

The independent perfumer who worked with Procter & Gamble and IFF and now creates fragrances for The Zoo, Strangelove NYC, Richmess and BéLAir Lab Tokyo is calling for a revolution in a bid to build tomorrow’s perfumery, a more ethical and more creative perfumery where the perfumer’s role as author is recognised. We talked to him.

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Fairs & Events

Artworks to smell around the world this spring

The news of olfactory art has rarely been as prolific as this year. Nez offers you a non-exhaustive world tour of the scented exhibitions to see, but above all to smell in this spring and early summer of 2022.

Olfactory education: how to cultivate your nose

Where to train as a perfumer

From specialised schools and university courses to in-house schools at composition houses, there are several paths open to anyone who wants to make perfumery their profession.

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"All-inclusive": Perfumery confronts inequalities

Saskia Wilson Brown: ”Only diversity can allow for a living culture”

Director and founder of the Institute for Art and Olfaction in Los Angeles, Saskia Wilson Brown is deeply engaged in open access and transmedia practices. The Institute for Art and Olfaction, founded in 2012, is a non-profit arts organization devoted to experimentation and education in perfumery.

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