Chandler Burr will be holding a Scent Dinner at the Four Seasons restaurant in New York City on Wednesday, December 2 at 7 pm:
An olfactory expert and connoisseur, Chandler is a sensory genius who has created the most unusual dining experience we’ve ever heard of…
King's Maine lobster poached in lobster carrot butter over a Maine potato fondant followed a round in which we sniffed tangerine, baby carrots and "an olfactory painting of unripe, green mango."
— Columnist Meredith Goad attends one of Chandler Burr's The Perfect Scent Dinners, in After 'Perfect Scent Dinner,' the nose knows at the Portland Press Herald. Many thanks to Karen for the link!
Chandler Burr, author of The Perfect Scent, will be giving a talk in New York City on December 8 as part of the Times Talks series:
Perfumes are classic holiday gifts. But perfume is also one the world's great art forms. Discover both aspects of scent in this fascinating interactive guided tour of some of the world's fragrance masterpieces, led by Chandler Burr, fragrance critic for The New York Times Style Magazine and author of “The Perfect Scent: A Year Inside the Perfume Industry in Paris & New York.” You will smell jasmine from Grasse, pink peppercorn absolutes…
Some fragrances from that period seem to have been designed with smoke in mind to be mixed at the time of use, one half of some ambient gin and tonic. It was as if the composed smell needed an audience: perfume supplied the music, smoke the crowd noises.
— From Jasmin et Cigarette, Luca Turin’s latest column at NZZ Folio.
[Daniela] Andrier explained at the fragrance’s launch that she took inspiration from the soap form of Infusion d’Iris…
Chandler Burr, the New York Times perfume critic and author of The Perfect Scent, takes 3 women shopping for perfume at Sephora.