Copper clock uses perfume to tell time

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German designer Patrick Palcic presented at this year’s IMM Cologne a copper clock, where perfume leaks at hourly intervals onto the copper face.

Palcic created the clock, named “Es Liegt was in Der Luft” – or There Is Something in the Air – to offer an alternative way to tell the time.

“The olfactory clock allows the user to experience the passage of time in a different way: Instead of the time being read, as with other timepieces, it hangs in the air and is inhaled” says the artist.

Seems like a fun project! Have a nice week. Yours, Fran

Perfume interpretations in resin for Sculpting Scent exhibition

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London Design Festival 2016: London artist Zuza Mengham has created an exhibition of crystal-shaped resin sculptures as a physical interpretation of Laboratory Perfumes‘ range of scents.

Mengham based each brightly coloured sculpture in the exhibition, titled Sculpting Scent, around the brand’s gender-neutral fragrances.

This includes scents like Atlas, containing notes of pipe tobacco alongside rum, vanilla and hay.

Mengham interpreted the different compositions of the fragrances as contrasting colours, angles and visual effects using resin.

She shows citrus scents as clear yellow, and layers translucent resin over speckled, slate-coloured sections to reflect combinations of notes.

The artist has also created pieces with internal patterns that resemble smoke, bubbles, and ink dropped into water. Transparent and opaque sections are placed alongside one another to create light and colour effects.

To me, those sculptures seem to be the perfect encapsulation of scent! Yours, Fran

 

The museum of feelings in NYC

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Welcome to the first museum that reacts to emotions—and turns them into art.

Is New York feeling exhilarated, calm, optimistic? The Museum’s exterior changes color to reflect the mood of the city by scraping social media and other real-time data.

Each installation invites emotional interaction. Touch, feel, play, listen, imagine and breathe. You can even step into the first kaleidoscope controlled by emotion.

“Float through the feeling of calm on a lavender cloud. Use your own biometric data to create a MoodLens—or unique emotional selfie—and match it with a perfect custom fragrance.”

Sponsored by Glade, the bigggest american airfreshener company, you quickly notice that the museum is ‘merely’ a great marketing campaign.

I hope you could still enjoyed the story! Yours, Fran

Museum of Perfumery in Paris

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blog, fragrance, Franziska Josteit, Guillaume de Maussion, IFF, In-Imitable, International Flavors & Fragrances Inc., Jean-Claude Ellena, Le Grand Musée du Parfum, Osmothèque Versailles, Paris, Patricia de Nicolaï, perfum, scent, Sylvaine Delacourte

On December 1st, 2016, at Faubourg Saint-Honoré in Paris, in the historical building dating from the XVIIIth century that hosted before the Christian Lacroix fashion house, the parisian Grand Museum of Perfumery will be opened.

Le Grand Musée du Parfum, where there will be more than sixty fragrances presented, is created with participation of International Flavors & Fragrances Inc., and in collaboration with Jean-Claude Ellena and Osmothèque Versailles.

The president and founder of the Museum is Guillaume de Maussion. The Museum will be financed by the French Syndicate of Perfumery (Syndicat Français de la Parfumerie) which unites 66 perfume brands.

Autumn is coming, so let’s get prepared to visit some museums again! Yours, Fran

SmellSCAPES performance by Klara Ravat

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In line with last weeks post, I went to the Odorama session called Art + Distillation, and one of the speakers was Klara Ravat with an impressive olfactory performance.

2 women were laying on a podium, when an electronic voice told the audience to gather 11 people around each of the laying woman. “Go on your knees. Take the perfume that is standing in front of you and spray/ drop it on the closest skin-point. Smell. Come closer and smell again. What do you feel? What do you smell?”

I observed the audience and found some puzzled faces… quite funny… e.g. on the foot, on the hair etc. Btw: the perfums were distallation works from Klara, whereas one was the Scent of Amsterdam that we distilled last Saturday in the workshop (see previous post).

The intention of Klara was to break that barrier of personal contact and to actually come closer to each other.

Nice message for a sunny start of the week! Yours, Fran

PS: Photos by Stichting Mediamatics

Inhaling history and smelling the future

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Amsterdam, aroma, blog, Caro Verbeek, fragrance, Franziska Josteit, history, In-Imitable, Mediamatic, Odorama, perfume, PhD, Royal Academy of Arts, scent, smell, TED

Caro Verbeek is an art and smell historian, curator and author with a focus on modern, olfactory and tactile art. She is currently a PhD candidate at VU University with the project ‘In Search of Scents Lost – Reconstructing the Aromatic Heritage of the Avant-garde’. She teaches the course ‘The Other Senses’ at the Royal Academy of Arts (The Hague) and moderates the monthly ‘Odorama’-platform at Mediamatic Amsterdam.

Here is her TED talk about historical and futuristic smelling:

A picture says a thousand words, but maybe a smell holds a thousand images… Let’s stay curious! Yours, Fran

Smell Dating – sniff out your partner

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Love is a reaction, and smells are really just floating chemicals. Knowing this, it makes sense to build a dating agency around the idea that scent is a larger factor in attraction that physicality. Enter Smell Dating, the world’s first service of it’s kind.

How it works (from their website)

1. We send you a t-shirt
2. You wear the shirt for three days and three nights without deodorant.
3. You return the shirt to us in a prepaid envelope.
4. We send you swatches of t-shirts worn by a selection of other individuals.
5. You smell the samples and tell us who you like.
6. If someone whose smell you like likes the smell of you too, we’ll facilitate an exchange of contact information.
7. The rest is up to you.

3 days without deodorant… hmmm, not sure when to do this experiment…

Yours, Fran

 

Largest flower in the world – a scented moment

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Peter de Cupere wrote about his trip to the Botanic Garden Meise, Belgium, and i wanted to share his story! He went to smell the Amorphophallus, which typically requires at least 7 years before it blooms. He says that it’s an amazing strong scent, not so pleasant 😉 Here some more background info of the fascinating flower.

Amorphophallus (phallos, “penis”, referring to the shape of the prominent spadix), is a large genus of some 200 tropical and subtropical tuberous herbaceous plants from the Arum family, native to Asia, Africa, Australia and various oceanic islands. A few species are edible as “famine foods” after careful preparation to remove irritating chemicals.

Once the spathe opens, pollination must happen the same day. In many species, the inflorescence emits a scent of decaying flesh in order to attract insects, though a number of species give off a pleasant odor.

Through a number of ingenious insect traps, pollinating insects are kept inside the spathe to deposit pollen on the female flowers, which stay receptive for only one day, while the male flowers are still closed.

These open the next day, but by then the female flowers are no longer receptive and so self-pollination is avoided. The male flowers shower the trapped insects with pollen. Once the insects escape, they can then pollinate another flower.

You can see a time lapse here:

There are so many fascinating flowers out there! Let’s keep our eyes open! Yours, Fran

Do you smell blue? Synesthesia

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The 4th edition of Odorama, a scent event serie organized by Mediamatics in cooperation with Caro Verbeek, dealt this time with the fascinating topic of synesthesia.

Synesthesia is a neurological phenomenon in which stimulation of one sensory or cognitive pathway leads to automatic, involuntary experiences in a second sensory or cognitive pathway. People who report a lifelong history of such experiences are known as synesthetes.

Dr. Cretien van Campen: He is best known for his work on synesthesia in art, and studies of perceived quality of life, in particular of how people with health problems perceive their living conditions in the context of health and social care services.

Dr. Laura Speed: Is there a linguistic interpretation for synesthesia? Dr. Laura Speed is researcher (psycho-linguistics) at the Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen working on the linguistic explanation of synesthesia opposed to a genetic or cultural component.

Amy Toner is a choreographer that teaches children to dance according scents, so to say smell-movement synesthesia.

Smell performance “Bee-ing”

We smelled fragrances of Dana el Masri.

Have a good start into the week! Yours, Fran

 

 

Odorama and other smelly stories !?!

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Amsterdam, art, blog, Caro Verbeek, fragrance, Franziska Josteit, In-Imitable, Marit Mihklepp, Mediamatic, Odorama, olfactory, perfume, Peter De Cupere, scent

Last week i attended a smelly evening organized by Mediamatic Amsterdam. Odorama is a new program by Mediamatic in collaboration with Caro Verbeek, an art historian who is especially interested in the sense of smell. Odorama concerns everything that reaches and effects the nose. The program will explore olfactory art and design that is experimental and challenging, sometimes known and sometimes unknown.

Speakers of that evening: Peter de Cupere, Caro Verbeek, Marit Mihklepp

A very inspirational concept with interesting people in a cool atmosphere!

Next event to come (and join)! Yours, Fran