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Repository 167: Fragrance Wunderkammer | Learning from Master Mandy Aftel
People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion. – Albert Einstein As stated in my last post on learning my olfactory alphabet, I’ve been on a quest to learn the art of perfumery so I can design a fragrance on forgetting. Forgetting is indeed an illusion, and most definitely wearing a fragrance that makes you forget is an illusion. Impossible one might say. Though I’m persisting…
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Repository 162: Learning My Olfactory Alphabet | Art as Fragrance
“Odors have a power of persuasion stronger than that of words, appearances, emotions, or will. The persuasive power of odor cannot be fended off, it enters into us like breath into our lungs, it fills us up, imbues us totally. There is no remedy for it.” Patrick Süskind, “Perfume, The Story of a Murderer Over 20 years after reading two works of literature that permanently stained my brain (in the best way) and resonated with me like none other, I…
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Repository 99: Bon Mots | The Science of Scent | Luca Turin on Scent
Continuing my olfactory research and armchair scent travel, I just completed the Luca Turin book “The Secret of Scent, Adventures in Perfume and the Science of Smell.” Luca Turin is a biophysicist and has a remarkable career in the perfume world designing fragrance molecules for major perfume and flavor companies. The title of the book is deceiving – the secret of scent remains a secret after reading it. Unlike Mandy Aftel, whose book I also completed last month titled “Essence…
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