Concept bottles, unfortunately, but I would buy one in a heartbeat. From the Polish design firm Ah&Oh (and there are some wonderful closeups at their website) found via The Essence of an Author…Contained in a Perfume Bottle at Design Taxi. Shown are the bottles for George Orwell, Edgar Allan Poe and Marquis de Sade; there is also a bottle for Pierre Choderlos de Laclos.
A very unique human sense
Over the past decade the relationship between the visual arts and olfaction has moved beyond the boundaries of teasing, humorous and entertaining, to an expansive and distinct contemplation. [...] Olfactory Art is a contemporary modality of expression in which creators intentionally engage a very unique human sense in their practice - that of smell.
— From Olfactory Art: A New Genre at Psychology Today, with many thanks to Jennifer for the link!
The revolution
A video by Lisa Kirk and Gabriel Jeffrey for the new Revolution fragrance.
Update: video no longer available, sorry!
Lisa Kirk Revolution ~ new fragrance
Artist Lisa Kirk has launched Revolution, a fragrance created with perfumer Patricia Choux in 2008 for the conceptual art piece Revolution Pipe Bomb:
Through research gathered from interviews with anonymous journalists, activists, and political radicals, Kirk developed the Revolution fragrance…
Scents and Medical Sensibility ~ exhibit in Washington, DC
Scents and Medical Sensibility is an exhibit now running at the Joan Hisaoka Healing Arts Gallery at Smith Farm Center in Washington, DC:
Have you ever pondered how the olfactory sense affects visual perception, or how a scent can evoke a dormant childhood memory? In this unconventional exhibition…