Smell enters directly into the limbic system. It triggers emotion. You identify first through your nose before you identify through vision. Babies smell their mothers before seeing them. Smells surround us all the time; they permeate the immediate environment and penetrate the whole body. We breathe 23,040 times a …
Minimalist Art emerged as a powerful force in America in the 1960′s as a response to the heroic, gestural painting of Abstract Expressionism. Artists like Donald Judd, whose work is pictured above, used industrially and mass produced materials to make sparse, simple geometric forms free of elements that would suggest …
Elegance, science, violence! They’ve promised the tree of good and evil will be buried in darkness, the tyrannical virtues will be deported, so we can bring here our love so pure. It began with certain disgusts and it ends – we being unable to seize this eternity all at once …
To create a perfume you have to be the servant of the unconscious. – Serge Lutens Few would dispute the genius of Serge Luten’s perfume line. His boutique under the august arcades of the Palais Royal is a pilgrimage site for anyone serious about perfume, and every new release is …
Some of you might have been lucky enough to catch Wolfgang Laib’s installation “Pollen from Hazelnut” at the Museum of Modern Art …
In the last decade we have seen many excellent books written about perfume that are intended for a mainstream audience. Among them …
“Smoking Room in a Private Palais in Brussels as Seen From the Entrance, 1905″ is the title of an installation …
Perfumes begin as ideas. A perfumer is presented with a brief from a client in the form of a written description, a …
Doug Wada is a New York based artist who makes detailed and realistic drawings of humble objects. Subway seats, garbage bags, and …
It’s rare that I write perfume reviews here, mostly because I am not as interested in ingredients per se as I am …