Here are some tips about how to retrain your nose and palate for healthier cravings. Eating ethnic foods with more bitter, spicy or vinegary flavors can help Americans get leaner.
Yearly Archives: 2012
thinking feeling smelling
Read up on the latest psychoanalysis of the human experience of smell from Psychology Today online.
Evolutionary anthropologist Robin Dunbar unpacks the olfactive variable of heterosexual attraction.
pop-up scent art
Odin and Snarkitecture have teamed up to bring New Yorkers a gorgeous perfume art installation at 330 E 11th street NYC.
words and scent
Read a brief interview with Byredo’s Ben Gorham on his logophilic 
creative process.
wine aroma seminars
Bordeaux native wine aroma expert Alexandre Schmitt educates wine enthusiasts in Paso Robles.
smell your food
Dr. Johannes Frasnelli gives a simple explanation about the link between smell and taste perception.
Sausalito Scent Event TODAY
SF-based artist Paolo Salvagione will be exhibiting some exciting new work called Vessels that integrates scent at the Headlands Center for the Arts in Sausalito, CA. “Vessels” are a dozen vessels that contain a dozen unique smells designed to activate some memory from the past — your past.
scent accessories for the modern lad and lass
You can now enjoy a new take on the old classic: solid perfume in pencil form. We wish they could also write in scented ink. Available for around $10 at Anthropologie. Is there an eraser available if the scent is unappealing?
Le Métier de Beauté, NYC craft maquilleur, has gone where no cufflink has ever gone before. They have designed three types of scent-embedded cufflinks. The fragrance names are more abstract than the concept though. Who could choose from “bold,” “classic,” and “modern,” without actually smelling them? At a cool $3,500, we’d like to give them a test drive before committing. Smells like something every dandy nowadays must have.
South African strip club Mavericks knows their clients’ needs intimately. The club is selling three fragrances as part of a line called “Alibis” which are designed to mask that incomparable lap-dance and booze accord that makes girlfriends and wives so angry. The fragrances are only available for sale at the club itself. SNL did an ad parody in the 90s about a shoe treatment that gives shoes business trip realness. The salt-like powder was the husband’s alibi, covering up his tropical beach getaway with his mistress by pretending to be on a Chicago winter business trip. Life imitates art.
who’s afraid of smelly books?
Let’s hope it’s not children. New York, PHEW York, and other children’s fiction books are breaking new ground, and wind, apparently, in scented literature. New York is said to bring the streets of NYC alive through gum and ice cream as well as farts and dog poop.
Photo: Nicolas Zurcher
Aussies Promote Scent Art
The Museum of Old and New Art in Hobart, Tasmania (Australia) is now showing a multi-sensorial art exhibit that features work by Wim Delvoye including his smelly installation, Cloaca.
Olfactive 