Black balloons, filled with the scent of "Sexy Time," a potent mix of chocolate, condoms, candles, post-coital bed sheets, sweat, nail polish, and lipstick--in short, the smell of a college student's dorm room--filled the lobby of a Parsons auditorium on Friday, sending conference attendees off with a smelly jolt to their own weekends.
— From Sweet Stank of Innovation Wafts Across Parsons' Scent Symposium at Fast Company. The article is about the HeadSpace symposium held last Friday.
Very “out there” and conceptual, but I would LOVE to go to an all-day symposium like this.
And I think the following idea is incredible. Can you imagine an olfactory iPod some day?
“A device that would allow the combination of technology and scent could be very powerful, [Benaim] said. “Imagine the library of music in your ipod, cross fertilized with scent. It would be fantastic.”
I was a grad student for too long — I would NOT like to attend any such thing, but instead, would like to watch it on my iPod at my own pace, just like the TED talks
Joe, I could spend hours coordinating music with perfumes given the two already take up a fair bit of my free time. I might actually then rival The CEO’s love of tech gadgets and ability to bond with them for hours if there was such a fantastic device.
I’m sorry, am I the only one who hears “Sexy Time” and thinks of Borat?
I was at the conference, it supposedly was a reference to Borat!
That’s too funny!!!! Thanks for letting me know. : )
Mindxpandr- No you weren’t alone! And Borat has to be the least sexy man in the world (with apologies to Sacha Baron Cohen).
P.S. Took me a minute to work out your user name but I got there in the end!
Borat is ridiculously unsexy, that’s for sure!
I was there; it was amazing! You had to be there to experience these far out there experimental scents filling the auditorium: from the 7 “Thresholds of Life” (I got 2 sets of 6 stage crystals! Sex was only sprayed on napkins in a jar; every someone opened it the lobby filled with the pungent bleach-like smell of semen!), to Toshiko Mori’s “Anti-gravity” (which I managed to nab a small container of, with a cotton dabbed with it inside!), to Commonwealth’s wonderful woody scent (which Chandler Burr called better than any wood scent out on the market), to the playful finale of “Sexy Time” which seems to me what the vile “Secretions Magnifiques” should have been and which is sure to put you in a randy state of mind (it certainly did me!)… It makes me wish more such edgy and innovative scents are available in the market! Despite a couple lackluster presentations (hint: if you’re French and your English is crap, please do us a favor next time and have someone edit your presentation for bad grammar and stale cliches), it was a wonderful, engaging, and very fragrant day!
Sounds wonderful, thanks so much!