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The odour equivalent of being tone-deaf

Posted by Robin on 21 June 2017 4 Comments

In another space, I close my eyes and it is as if I had stepped inside a quiet Mediterranean church on a July day: I can smell the wood polish, the dried flowers, but also, somehow, the cool of the stone, the soft clunk of the door closing the deep-pile hush that builds over centuries of whispers.

This is a revelation. Whatever the odour equivalent of being tone-deaf is, that’s me.

— Jess Cartner-Morley visits the exhibit Perfume: A Sensory Journey Through Contemporary Scent at Somerset House in London. Read more at Perfume genius: how fragrances help explain the world at The Guardian. Hat tip to Pyramus!

A Sensory Journey

Posted by Robin on 9 June 2017 2 Comments

A trippy 1 minute spot for the exhibit Perfume: A Sensory Journey Through Contemporary Scent, which opens later this month at Somerset House in London.

The Smoked Plum & Leather

Posted by Robin on 3 May 2017 Leave a Comment

The Smoked Plum & Leather: This interpretation of an old fashioned combines plum liqueur, brandy, Laphroaig whisky, cinnamon, blackcurrant tea and lemon garnished with smoked cinnamon and dried blackcurrants.

— Londoners can stop by the Bluebird in Bloom café for a cocktail inspired by a Jo Loves fragrance. Read more at Jo Malone's new tapas and tipple business venture kicks off in London at Cosmetics Business.

A Sensory Journey Through Contemporary Scent

Posted by Robin on 2 March 2017 Leave a Comment

A Sensory Journey Through Contemporary Scent, image from Somerset House

The exhibit “Perfume: A Sensory Journey Through Contemporary Scent” will open at Somerset House in London on 21 June and run through 17 September…

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Bottle of liquid doom

Posted by Robin on 18 April 2016 8 Comments

To create this fatalistic fragrance, the pair went through the Book of Revelation, plucking out every mention of a scented element: thunder, blood, rocks of the mountains, incense, wormwood, rod of iron, creatures of the sea, hail and fire, animal horns, flesh burned with fire, brimstone and, of course, a grievous sore. They then passed this somewhat unlikely shopping list on to Edinburgh-based perfumer Euan McCall to turn the 1611 King James Bible’s vision of annihilation into a “wearable scent”. That’s right, a limited-edition bottle of liquid doom can be yours for just £300 plus VAT.

— You can smell Apocalypse, a fragrance by artists Jon Thomson and Alison Craighead, at the exhibit Party Booby Trap at Carroll/Fletcher in London through 25 May. Read more at I sniffed the end of the world, and it smells like bile and dread at The Guardian.

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