Andy Tauer of Tauer Perfumes and Tauerville will be visiting Scent Bar in Los Angeles on Sunday, November 20, and will be selling the fragrance Hyacinth and a Mechanic* that day only, in person only,** as part of a new Tauerville Stories collection…
Scent and the City
...the “Scent and the City” exhibition, which asks visitors to discover four millennia of civilizations through their noses.
From historically significant scents such as saffron, frankincense and agarwood to contemporary scents such as cologne, linden trees and burning coal, more than 50 scents are on exhibit and can be visited until June 8 at ANAMED Gallery in Istanbul’s Beyoğlu district. The scents are drawn from literature, rituals, traditions and the economy, spanning a period of 3,500 years, from the Hittite, Ancient Greek and Roman civilizations to the Byzantine and Ottoman empires.
— The exhibit Scent and the City, at the Koç University’s Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations (ANAMED) in Instanbul, includes a scent bar where visitors can create smell combinations using scent strips, and a scent map of Istanbul. Read more at ‘Scent and the City:’ Smelling an exhibition in Istanbul at Hurriyet Daily News, or visit the ANAMED website.
Bottle of liquid doom
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.
Botanical Fragrance From Plants to Perfume
Scent is an integral part of communities from around the world, from incense used in prayer to fragrant flowers offered as a sign of love, to the $30 billion perfume industry. The world of plants is central to this industry, supplying essential oils derived from flowers, barks and roots, supplying inspiration and imagery, and supplying molecules that can be manipulated into something new to the human nose. [...]
This exhibition focuses on the complexities of fragrance, featuring a collection of plants traditionally used in the perfumer's palette. We have tied each one to the distinct perfumes of French master, Serge Lutens. Come visit the Lyman Conservatory for an exploration into this fascinating corner of botany and sample a fine French fragrance, Datura Noir.
— The exhibit Botanical Fragrance From Plants to Perfume will run during the month of May at the Physiology House, Lyman Conservatory, Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts.
The beauty of decay
For her latest project, commissioned by the Smithsonian's Cooper Hewitt, National Design Museum for the fifth installment of its Design Triennial, she tackled the scent of Central Park. Tolaas has done location-focused works in the past, capturing the scents of places such as Istanbul and Greenland, and with Manhattan’s most famous park in the Cooper Hewitt’s backyard, it made sense to develop a work based on that area.
But as the theme of this year’s Triennial is “Beauty,” Tolaas sought to play against what she calls “the classic clichés” of the word. When someone tries to imagine a “beautiful smell,” he or she might imagine perfume, fragrant food or some other pleasing scent. But for this show, Tolaas says, “I wanted to show the other side, and look at the beauty of decay.”
— Scent artist Sissel Tolaas has a touch-and-smell wall at the Cooper Hewitt's Design Triennial, open now through August 21. Read more at Can Smell Be a Work of Art? at Smithsonian Magazine.