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OBJECTS
Nifty little personal aroma tubes created by Studio Kawamura Ganjavian based in Spain.
The current issue of arty interview magazine Mono.Kultur from Berlin, Issue 32, features a scent-only story by renowned scent artist Sissel Tolaas. Check back on Olfactive to find out about our upcoming event celebrating Tolaas’ innovative narrative form.
Most people rely on scent to help them remember or be remembered but self-described olfactory esthetician Reed Seifer has designed a scent to help us forget.
Not so new but still a great addition to any wine or scent-lovers collection is the Scents of Wine toolkit and game from France (Le Nez du Vin).
GARDENS
Botanical gardens in the US reach their tendrils out to the art and food-loving set by hosting a new array of botanical events.
ODDITIES
London taxi cabs offer aromatic respite from the Big Smoke’s street stench courtesy of Bond No.9 and Penhaligon’s perfumes.
Home fragrance goes working-class with White Castle’s wildly popular burger-scented candle.
Jury candidates for R. Kelly’s recent sex scandal trial got an unexpected odorama experience during juror selection.
ARTS & LITERATURE
Aimee Bender’s explores the downside of supertasting and smelling in her second novel about a woman suffering from synesthesia. Rose’s taste and nose buds give her psychic insight into other people’s emotions.
Deirdre Foley-Mendelssohn muses about bottling the scent of books in a recent New Yorker post prompting her coworkers to add their olfactory fantasies to the abstract train of thought.
The dark humor of Norwegian filmmaker Tommy Wirkola (director of Dead Snow) meets John Waters’ camp gimick odorama in Wirkola’s latest film Kurt Josef Wagle & the Legend of the Fjord Witch.
The LA Times takes a turn down memory lane with an article bemoaning the invention of odorama. Check out Martin J Smith and Patrick J Kiger’s book-length work on Smellovision and other American pop culture mistakes.
Last year Smellovision inspired two Boston-area artists Megan Dickerson and Bridget Matros to produce their own film screenings with odor aids.
Read articles featuring American scent writer Chandler Burr on scent description and a feature on French perfumer Jean-Claude Ellena.
Avant garde scent artist Sissel Tolaas teamed up with photographer Nick Knight to create a fragrance on the internet.
The Gorilla Perfumer launches pop-up olfactory art exhibitions in locations across London.
Perfumer Shelley Waddington offers virtual scent tours of California’s Monterey Peninsula in her soon-to-be-released EnVoyage perfume series.
Scent art installations and other events are being offered in the south of France courtesy of Osmoart.
San Francisco perfumer and scent artist Yosh teaches a journalist from the Bold Italic some olfactory sense.
ADVERTISING
Charlotte-based company ScentAir distracted drivers with their mouth-watering BBQ steak aroma wafting over the highway.
GASTRONOMY
Brooklyn Blogger Vetivresse gives tasting and smelling notes of favorite wines.
Chef Daniel Patterson of San Francisco’s COI restaurant talks about his olfactory awakening guided by fellow Bay Area natural perfumer Mandy Aftel in Food & Wine.
A new aroma dictionary aims to give you the language to better articulate your olfactory wine palate in words.
Gourmet magazine’s not-so-recent article about olfactory trends in global gastronomy.
Alinea invents a multipurpose eucalyptus dish to embody the spring thaw.
A Singaporean blogger sends our nose and taste buds to far-away places in Aroma Cookery.
Olfactive’s top aromatic drinks of the past year: the Sage Old Buck, the punny Earl Grey Marteani and the Aviation, which we personalized as a French Aviation by adding a rub fresh of lemon verbena to the rim. And speaking of French cocktails, Hubert Keller serves up a Fleur de Lys martini that delights the nostrils with a whole vanilla bean garnish.
SCIENCE & MEDICINE
Nikas Culinaria gives us a technical illustration of how olfaction and gustation work in the human body.
A recent study found that good-smelling atmosphere significantly increases pleasure in wine shoppers and sellers.
Women in love only have eyes and noses for the men they adore according to recent studies on olfaction and romantic attachment.
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