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Maria Loboda Recreates Smoking Room as Scented Garden

Katherine — Mon, 13 May 2013 19:35:57 +0000

“Smoking Room in a Private Palais in Brussels as Seen From the Entrance, 1905″ is the title of an installation by Maria Loboda commissioned by the Frieze Art Fair as part of its public projects program on Randall’s Island. “Smoking Room” consists of a garden that is intended …

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Olfactive Studio: Photographers and Perfumers Join Forces

Katherine — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 01:14:06 +0000

Perfumes begin as ideas. A perfumer is presented with a brief from a client in the form of a written description, a piece of music, a painting, or a specific object, and it is the perfumer’s job to translate that into scent. In the case of Olfactive Studio, a line …

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Doug Wada’s Perfume Bottle Prints

Katherine — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 15:11:13 +0000

Doug Wada is a New York based artist who makes detailed and realistic drawings of humble objects. Subway seats, garbage bags, and now perfume bottles have inspired Wada’s work because of their abstract and formal qualities. You can see more of his work on his website. Most recently Wada created …

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Learning Perfume Notes

Katherine — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 00:18:27 +0000

It’s rare that I write perfume reviews here, mostly because I am not as interested in ingredients per se as I am in the overall effect of all of them combined. It’s high time though that I became better acquainted with the nuances of notes, both natural and synthetic, to …

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Mad Perfumista on Le Labo in Man of the World Magazine

Katherine — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 19:49:41 +0000

I’m happy to announce that I am the new scent critic for Man of the World Magazine, a new publication created by Alan Maleh. It features everything for the “sophisticated male,” including art, travel, fashion, and an expertly curated selection of unique objects and exclusive brands. I’ve been featured in …

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Francesco Vezzoli’s Decadent Perfume Faux-Mercial

Katherine — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 17:07:37 +0000

I always love a good perfume commercial, like Chanel’s Egoiste ad from the early 1990′s and David Lynch’s work for Calvin Klein’s Obsession. Even better are the spoofs of the genre. Kristen Wiig stars in a SNL skit called “Red Flag” that pokes fun at the pretentious, pseudo-seriousness of perfume …

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Feet of the Gods by Jay Batlle

Katherine — Mon, 11 Feb 2013 22:08:20 +0000

I’ve written on the work of Jay Batlle previously, and here is a new work from the studio. It’s inspired by the famous advertisement by the French perfume house Rigaud for their iconic scent, Un Air Embaumé (An Air Embalmed). Batlle recreated the image of the woman inhaling from a …

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That Smells Radical: Fluxus Art Engages the Nose

Katherine — Sun, 10 Feb 2013 19:13:56 +0000

In 1965, Takako Saito produced Spice Chess, consisting of a chess board whose pieces are filled with spices. One can only recognize the position being played by inhaling its scent rather than relying on sight. The set includes white pawns made of cinnamon, white rooks of nutmeg, the white knights are ginger, black bishops are Cumin, and the black …

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Luca Turin: The World Upside Down

Katherine — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 21:25:19 +0000

Luca Turin’s blog on perfume, “Duftnotes,” began in 2005 and sadly ended in 2010. Some wonderful folks worked hard compiling snippets of the blog and now we have a complete online archive of the posts Turin wrote during this time, most of which predates the release of his now classic …

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My Perfume Book Collection

Katherine — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 03:54:01 +0000

It’s only fair that given the amount of time I’ve spent writing about the smell of books that I should be focusing on the books themselves. Here are all of my books on perfume that I use for research, inspiration, and most importantly, a bit of eye candy. On Perfume …

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