olfaction
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Scent of Museums
The scent of a museum is generally considered quiet, idealized and hermetic. Institutions try hard to create sterile moments for the visual and non-touchable to speak aesthetically without the intrusion of other senses (no touching! no smells! no voices please!). Regardless of old or new art, museums often smell like their audiences (often stale le…
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Rhinoferocious
Originally published on Aromatica Poetica. Rhinoferocious – a word to describe those who defend perfumery as an art.“He was courageous and bold in his attempts to dismantle the narrow boundaries of perfume as product to elevate people’s understanding of perfume as an art: in a word he was rhinoferocious.” Rhinographies (rhinography) – the study of…
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Digiscents & Noble Prize in Olfaction
“You don’t want to just do a problem because it’s easy to solve, you want to do something that you’re obsessed with, that you just have to understand, because that’s where the joy comes from, and that also, I think, is where the great discoveries come from, for people are really trying to try to…
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