Tag: Institute for Art and Olfaction

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 …

From Art to Bats: Review of Perfumes The Guide 2018 by Luca Turin & Tania Sanchez

aromatica poetica July 18, 2018

Perfumes: The Guide 2018 presents more than 1,200 perfume reviews by Tania Sanchez, a writer with interests in perfume, aesthetics and culture, and Luca Turin, a biophysicist, perfume critic and olfaction-science rabble-rouser of The Emperor of Scent fame, and accomplishes its mission to assert perfumery as an art form, worthy of criticism. I discovered their first guide Perfumes A-Z while researching Aroma Victoriana, where I quoted their admonishment of the perfume industry and its medieval secrecy–a secrecy that has helped …