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LifeLabs New York Williamsburg SMELLS (good)

Posted by Robin on 28 January 2011 16 Comments

LifeLabs New York, a non-profit adult education company, is offering a scent tour of Brooklyn's Williamsburg neighborhood:

The ‘Williamsburg smells (good)’ tour is a social smelling adventure, using the streets of Williamsburg, Brooklyn to activate and learn about our enigmatic sense of smell. Topics on the menu: Scent, memory, & emotions. Crayola crayons, sugar, leather, subway grease, your grandma’s perfume and the smell of kindness.

You’ll meet other curious & sociable scent-adventurers as we sniff out 5 alluring spots in Williamsburg’s back yard: a hip & heady brewery, warm polish bakery, deep-smelling eco- chocolate factory, happy coffee grindery, and a poetic perfumery, all within an 8 block radius of one another.

The course will be held on Saturday, February 5th from noon to 3 ($22); more information here. Thanks to Jessica for the link!

Filed Under: perfume in the news
Tagged With: course, new york city, scent event

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  1. Rictor07 says:
    28 January 2011 at 10:29 am

    This sounds like it would be a good idea, if it werent being attempted during the frigid New York winter.

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    • Robin says:
      28 January 2011 at 11:47 am

      Yeah. I’d rather do this in May.

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  2. Jill says:
    28 January 2011 at 10:39 am

    I like this idea!

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    • Robin says:
      28 January 2011 at 11:47 am

      It’s a great idea.

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  3. elise says:
    28 January 2011 at 11:34 am

    what Poetic Perfumery do they visit!
    So wish I lived in NYC…..

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    • elise says:
      28 January 2011 at 11:43 am

      I think it is CB I Hate Perfumes…

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      • Robin says:
        28 January 2011 at 11:47 am

        That would be my guess.

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  4. Tara says:
    28 January 2011 at 11:42 am

    This sounds really fun and interesting. I’ll see if I can go…Has anyone done anything like this? Is it fun for kids (11 and 13) or would they be bored to death?

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    • Robin says:
      28 January 2011 at 11:48 am

      No idea…it is an “adult education” org, but that doesn’t mean much. Maybe email them?

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    • 50_Roses says:
      28 January 2011 at 5:44 pm

      If the event includes a visit to a brewery, there may be a minimum age. My husband and I took a tour or a rum distillery, and it was adults only. I think 18 to 20-year-olds could participate if accompanied by an adult over 21, but no one under 18 was allowed.

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  5. Dolly2 says:
    28 January 2011 at 12:24 pm

    This sounds like fun. I can identify with some of the items described.

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  6. Erin says:
    28 January 2011 at 2:29 pm

    The brother of a friend lives in Williamsburg. In the fall, I told him about my interest in perfume and he mentioned CB IHP, which is apparently just around the corner from him and which he visited. I told him what I knew about the line and CB himself, and when I ran into him at my friend’s place over the holidays, he immediately blurted out: “Hey, I think of you all the time! Every time I pass that place with the perfumes that smell like graves and dust and cat butt and whatever…” I wasn’t sure whether to be flattered or not. Will definitely hit CB’s shop next time I’m in NYC.

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  7. ol rait says:
    28 January 2011 at 2:44 pm

    I can hear the Bond No. 9 lawyers loading their guns….

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    • annemarie says:
      28 January 2011 at 8:20 pm

      Huh? Why?

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      • ol rait says:
        29 January 2011 at 11:30 am

        Bond is notorious for threatening suit against anyone they deem to be approaching their copyrights. A few years back, they threatened to sue an indie perfumer for using the word Peace in a perfume name because Bond has a fragrance called… Scent of Peace, I think.

        Yeah, just making a facetious stab, but really would not put it past that company.

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        • annemarie says:
          30 January 2011 at 3:58 am

          Gotcha, yes, I’ve heard that kind of thing about Bond before. It’s one of the things that puts me off the Bond line.

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