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Scented wearables for Other Senses description: Six irregular, finger-sized forms rest on richly embroidered dark fabric. Pale yellow, creamy material clings to and envelops thin, translucent brown flakes, creating surfaces that seem simultaneously waxy, papery, scaly, and crumbly. Beneath them, thick curling embroidery in crimson, orange, and gold gives the whole image a lush, tactile warmth.

Other Senses * Performance & Gathering * September 26, 2026

Other Senses is a seasonal, multisensory performance and gathering in Brooklyn… Hosts/house band: Ivy Meadows – Sound/Music Lauren Race – Touch/Taste Leona Godin – scent/Text Fall guest artists: Alabaster Rhumb – Music/Poetry Samantha Sea Sea – Performance/art Bonita Oliver – Vocals/art Saturday, September 26, Doors: 7pm. Performance: 7:30pm at the Sunview Acropolis 257 Nassau avenue, Brooklyn Free but space is limited! Please RSVP to OtherSensesNYC At gmail.com. You can also email with any access needs. BYOB, my friends! …

The Smellicopter. Image courtesy Mark Stone and the University of Washington. A drone with plastic fins on the bag, and moth antennae barely visible. “Smellicopter has two plastic fins (shown here in blue) on the back to create drag to help it be oriented so that it is constantly facing upwind.”

The Olfactory Report 1: Smellicopters and the Smell of Old Books * Catherine Haley Epstein

aromatica poetica January 13, 2021

Aromatica Poetica is delighted to present The Olfactory Report, a monthly column dedicated to the business of our noses. In it scent artist and writer, Catherine Haley Epstein, shares news, thought pieces, reviews and opinions from the olfactory landscape. For our first edition of this one of a kind column, she presents a round up of some of the more exciting events and initiatives of 2020. Despite it being, and continually being, a year full of isolation, dissonance and breaking …

Five flower drawings based on those in the 1797 Botanical Magazine: Ixia flexuosa (Six-petaled white flower with a pink center and sparse, long, thin grooved leaves); Campanula speculum (Bluish on the outside purplish towards the center. Five petals and broad smooth-edged leaves); Aster tenellus (Small white petals around a yellow noduled center on a long green stalk with narrow leaves); Campanula carpatica (Light purple on the outside, dark purple towards the center. One flower is opened completely and the others are buds. Five petals fuse together towards the center in a kind of bowl shape, and the leaves are broad and jagged); Potentilla grandiflora (Five heart-shaped yellow petals with a greenish ball ornamented center.

Botanical Flower mask & Mini Art Prints Based on Curtis’ 1787 Botanical Magazine

aromatica poetica October 26, 2020

These botanical flower drawings are hand-rendered by Alabaster Rhumb and based on those by William Curtis in his 1787 Botanical Magazine. The flowers create a wallpaper effect in our Botanical Flower Mask, while each flower—Aster tenellus, Campanula carpatica, Campanula speculum, Ixia flexuosa, Potentilla grandiflora—is also available from Society6 as a mini art print or mini framed art print. Botanical Magazine Front matter The Botanical Magazine Or, Flower-Garden Displayed: In Which The most Ornamental Foreign Plants, cultivated in the Open …

The stunning corpse flower - Amorphophallus titanum - with its burgundy spathe that fans out like a cape around the pale pink and rather phallic spadix of flowers stands in its home in the jungle hot house of the Denver Botanic Garden in 2018.

Corpse Flower * Amorphophallus titanum * Mask to Protect You & Those Around You in Botanical Style

aromatica poetica October 12, 2020

Our Corpse Flower (Amorphophallus titanum) Wallpaper mask features “Stinky” in his Denver Botanic Garden habitat. A corpse flower in captivity takes 7-10 years to bloom the first time and is unpredictable thereafter. Thus, we felt quite privileged to join the long lines to smell the garbagy, putrefying smell in 2018. I wrote about that bitter-sweet-stinky experience in “Corpse Flower Revisited, Briefly in Bloom at the Denver Botanic Gardens.” Alabaster Rhumb took the photo of Stinky and designed our Corpse Flower …

On a cosmic background sits a murky pond surrounded by sunlit bonsai trees. Books, like stepping stones, guide one’s path across the pond to an orange and yellow four-tier pagoda with turquoise eaves. By Alabaster Rhumb for Aromatica Poetica’s Smell and Taste Reading List.

Smell and Taste Reading List * Nonfiction, Fiction, Poetry

aromatica poetica August 8, 2019

*This is a dynamic, ever-expanding list of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry that engages with smell and taste. In the spirit of mixing disciplines, genres and diverse voices, the list is simply organized in alphabetical order by author. If you don’t see something you think we would like, please let us know in the comments below or by emailing us at info@aromaticapoetica.com* *A* Abood, Maureen. Rose Water and Orange Blossoms: Fresh and Classic Recipes from my Lebanese Kitchen. Ackermann, Diane. …

Eye-Bottle spilling on to Medieval manuscript.

CLOSED Call for Submissions & Pitches for Aromatica Poetica’s Blind Writers Project – Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry CLOSED

aromatica poetica December 9, 2018

Thanks to a grant from the Awesome Foundation Disability chapter, we will be able to pay and feature the work of four blind or visually impaired writers in the coming months. Please peruse the site and visit our general submissions page before submitting to get a sense of what we like to publish. More info about Aromatica Poetica’s Blind Writers Project can be found below, but here’s the skinny on what you need to know: Nonfiction, fiction, and poetry from …