research
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Tools for Your Nose: A Digital Labspace
Over 15 years ago, when I first fell in love with the idea of using invisible materials to engage audiences, I had to rely naively on the essential-oils-with-vodka-macerate-for-6-weeks model, then followed by a serendipitous workshop in Northern California where I was exposed to beautiful, highly specialized, and barely available natural perfumery materials. The sources of…
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On the Nose: What to Learn from Funk and Fragheads
Happy grad season!! This Odorbet word selection is by Alexandra Segal*, Wesleyan University class of 25, who recently wrote her undergraduate anthropology thesis on perfume and queerness. It received both High Honors and the 2025 Gay, Lesbian, and Sexuality Studies (GLASS) Prize for best research and writing in the field. Alexandra grew up in Los…
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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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