MiN New York is holding a series of themed events this month pairing fragrances, drinks and food:
Celebrate the senses with our second installment of MiN New York’s RITUALS, Series II: JOURNEY OF THE SENSES. A FEAST OF SCENTS. Each intimate session is an interactive plain-language discovery class on a unique sensory experience like no other. Your guided fragrance flight of curated scents will be paired with spirits & hors d’œuvres…
There’re companies that are saying, “Well, couldn’t there be a little area at the end where you can show the packaging?”
— Chandler Burr talks about upcoming Art of Scent exhibit at the the Museum of Arts and Design's new Center of Olfactory Art, in Scent of a Museum at the New York Times.
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…
MiN New York looks like a combination of an apothecary, a curiosity shop, and a private club; it’s actually a one-stop-shopping destination for men’s upscale shaving and grooming products as well as niche perfumes for both men and women. This SoHo boutique’s walls of custom-made wood shelving, complete with a rolling library ladder in one alcove, hold the MiN house line of haircare and skincare, male-geared grooming lines (such as Nickel and Proraso), and more unisex products like LaRoche Posay skincare and Marvis toothpaste. Men’s traditional shaving accessories, including some very fancy straight razors and an assortment of shave brushes, are neatly arranged in glass-front cases; a few liquor flasks lurk invitingly on a higher shelf. Last but not least, counters and small tables display a well-thought-out assortment of fragrance lines. Despite the store’s name, which is a permutation of “New York Minute,” there’s definitely a European slant to the product offerings. (MiN also acts as the United States distributor for several of these fragrance brands.)
Every corner of MiN is punctuated with antiques…
The Museum of Arts and Design in New York has announced the creation of the Center of Olfactory Art, a museum department devoted to the art of fragrance and led by Chandler Burr, author of Emperor of Scent and Perfect Scent. Burr hopes to…
…place olfactory art within in the mainstream of art history and to show that scent is a legitimate artistic medium, the equal of painting, sculpture, architecture and music…