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A robot will fetch the fragrance matching your olfactory profile

Posted by Robin on 28 September 2021 2 Comments

Exhibits tackle questions like: How do the industry’s top “noses” create scents? Why was the original Eau Sauvage by Edmond Roudnitska such a popular bestseller? How is smell linked to memory? The answers are inside the stately mansion that was once the residence of the Roederer Champagne family, and more recently, Christian Lacroix’s maison de couture. At the end of the visit, a robot will fetch the fragrance matching your olfactory profile in the museum's gorgeous store.

— A new Grand Musée du Parfum will open in Paris this December (the last one closed in 2018). Read more in A Sneak Peek at Paris's New Grand Musée du Parfum at Condé Nast Traveler. Update: Nope, my mistake, still closed!

What the Venus de Milo smells like

Posted by Robin on 25 June 2019 Leave a Comment

She was one of the great beauties of antiquity, and soon we are going to find out what the "Venus de Milo" smells like.

The Louvre in Paris has asked two of France's top "noses" -- otherwise known as perfume creators -- to come up with fragrances to go with some of its greatest treasures.

— Read more at Venus de Milo to get an extra whiff of glamour at France 24.

Mille Facettes

Posted by Robin on 11 October 2018 Leave a Comment

The installation, called Mille Facettes—A Thousand Facets of Olfactory Lights, was presented as an artistic interpretation of the new fragrance, purporting to take the visitor for some 90 seconds inside a diamond, or more accurately inside a Plexiglas box in which a white light was diffused into a million facets of colors, plunging the visitor into the creative mind of the perfumer.

— Cartier's pop-up installation for Carat can be found at the Cartier pop-up shop on Wooster Street in NYC, or at rue Vieille du Temple in Paris. Read more in At Its ‘Rendez-Vous’ Experience, Cartier Mines the Past and Present to Reinvent Classic Luxury at ArtNet.

The outdoor lifestyle

Posted by Robin on 1 October 2018 Leave a Comment

And with these sentiments in mind, Gorham set out to imbue Byredo’s aesthetic and enthusiasm for the senses into the outdoor lifestyle, from Eleventh Hour’s evocative aromatic elements to handpicking products symbolic of camping culture (Stanley thermos bottles! Vargo pots! JJJJound cutting boards!) to collaborating with renowned French chef Jean Imbert on an evolving menu of freeze-dried delicacies.

— Inside Byredo's Eleventh Hour pop up store in Paris. Read more at Exclusive: Get a First Look at Byredo’s Camping-Inspired Perfume Pop-Up in Paris at Vogue.

An original and sensorial discovery

Posted by Robin on 31 May 2018 Leave a Comment

Bringing together close to 110 art and archaeology objects together for the first time, it will take you on a journey through Chinese civilisation. A selection of ceramics, drawings, bronzes, and paintings from the collections of the Shanghai Museum is presented for the first time in Europe alongside some twenty pieces from the Musée Cernuschi collections. These exceptional loans will immerse visitors in an original and sensorial discovery of the museum, punctuated with olfactory experiences throughout the chronological progression of the exhibition.

— The exhibit "Perfumes of China, the culture of incense in imperial times" will be open through 26 August at the Musée Cernuschi in Paris, and includes historical fragrances recreated by Dior.

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