Two of my favorite perfumers, Ineke and Velvet and Sweet Pea, are offering some Christmas deals on their fragrances that you should check out!

Ineke has gorgeous botanical blends from her Alphabet series and her new Anthropology Floral Curiosity line. Her sample sets are perfect stocking stuffers and great gifts for travelers.

I love Laurie’s rare historical creations. Her oils and body frostings are luxurious, guaranteed to please the hedonist in you.

Tomorrow at 2pm, scent artist Sita Bhaumik will be speaking at the San Francisco Asian Art Museum’s Baat Cheet event. Speakers include: Pixar animator Sanjay Patel, poet and psychiatrist Ravi Chandra, artist Sita Kuratomi Bhaumik, LACMA curator Julie Romain, artist Ranu Mukherjee, musician Cory Combs, India West editor Lisa Tsering, contemporary art collector Dipti Mathur, yoga instructor Monica Desai Henderson, and music and dance professor Nalini Ghuma.
http://www.asianart.org/helios/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=2492

6-9pm is Kearny Street Workshop’s Holiday Party. Asian Santa photo opp and live music by John Lum, Brandon Bigelow, Wilson Wong, and artists from RAMA.
http://kearnystreet.org/

Bhaumik’s installations at Acquired Taste show can be viewed and smelled one last time. The show will be closing this Thursday, Dec 8th at CSU Fullerton’s Begovich Gallery. http://acquiredtaste.sixpackprojects.com/wp/
Check out “To Curry Favor,” a curry powder wall (pictured above) and “Hey Sugar, Sugar,” a powdered sugar doormat.

Move over Chandler, pop-up scent exhibits, gatherings and museums are proliferating like wildfire. Perfume is, undoubtedly, the most immediate scent experience for your average American. However, now more than ever, scent in general is emerging as a new artistic media.

Sephora has joined the bandwagon by coproducing a pop-up scent museum called Sensorium in NY near its flagship with the Department of the fourth Dimesion.

Sephora Sensorium – Life At First Scent & Lucid Dreams from The D4D on Vimeo.

SF new media artist Sita Bhaumik has a curry wallpaper installation until December 8, 2011 at Begovich Gallery at Cal State Fullerton.

Socal artist Lindsey Pfeiler has integrated visual and olfactive stimuli in her installation at the Merlino Gallery BFA show in Long Beach.

Dr. Alan Hirsch of the Smell and Taste Treatment Institute in Chicago has a mission to make the world smell better by curing one patient at a time.

Read the lovely entry on olfaction in the Encyclopedia of Perception by psychologist Dr. Richard J Stevenson, coauthor of Learning to Smell.

NYC has inspired a new children’s scratch n sniff adventure by Amber Jones. The title, New York, Phew York, lives little doubt that it will smell more Urine Town than Big Apple.

photo by Jerome Frazer

John Waters would be proud and dismayed to see a new wave of smell-0-vision with the scratch and sniff cards for the theatrical release of Spy Kids’ 4.

Lithuania has its own perfume. You can now wear your heritage proudly.

Pierre Lubin has concocted a perfume he believes evokes the scents most admired by Marie Antoinette.

San Francisco based scent artist Yosh will be reading auras at Dish tomorrow evening May 13th from 5-7pm. Find out how perfume can help you achieve spiritual balance.

541 Hayes Street
call to book a reading: 415.252.5997

Forget books about perfume. The Duke of Couture is creating a fragrance that smells like books.

It’s called Paper Passion but the release date has not yet been mentioned. It will contain a fatty note.

And in nose news for the nether regions…one man’s shit is another man’s gold. Spritz on Surplus, the world’s first perfume with a fecal note.

Where else but in Chicago?
Chicago-based perfumery Farringay just launched the first ever bacon-based perfume, Bacōn