Luca Turin: The World Upside Down
Luca Turin’s blog on perfume, “Duftnotes,” began in 2005 and sadly ended in 2010. Some wonderful folks worked hard compiling snippets of …
My Perfume Book Collection
It’s only fair that given the amount of time I’ve spent writing about the smell of books that I should be focusing …
Olfactory Resistance: Celebrating Mad Perfumista’s First Anniversary
It’s amazing to think that a year has gone by since I started this blog, and it has been an incredible journey. …
Vive le livre! Long live books!
I adore the tactile experience of holding a book. I like gazing at the cover design, feeling the weight of it in …
The Art of Scent : 1889-2012 — Exhibition Review
In 1917, a French American artist named Marcel Duchamp submitted a work of art he called “Fountain” to be exhibited at the first New …
Deconstructing Chanel No. 5: Work by Maki Ueda
Considering a bottle is sold somewhere in the world every 6 seconds, Chanel No. 5 looms large in our cultural imagination. The …
Perfume on the Beach: Nyehaus Presents Rebels in Paradise during ABMB
It’s not a gurney… but you very well may need one. When I began this blog a short while ago, there was …
JK Huysmans on Perfume as Art
From Against Nature (À Rebours) (1884): For years now [Des Esseintes] had been an expert in the science of perfumes; he maintained that …
The Dark Wonder of Kiki Smith
Every successful work of art produces a sense of wonderment. It allows you to see the things from a different perspective, opens …
Jul et Mad Paris and Aftel’s Chef’s Essences at MiN New York
If you live in New York and you try to take advantage of all of the things the city has to offer, …
Smell Me: Martynka Wawrzyniak’s Scented Exhibition at Envoy Enterprises
‘In today’s society we do everything we can to mask the natural scent of our bodies, thus forgoing an ancient form of …
Making Up and Selling Out: Kenny Scharf and Jean-Michel Othoniel Collaborate with Kiehl’s and Dior
In the NY Times today, Bee-Shyuan Chang reports on the collaboration between the artist Kenny Scharf and the cosmetics company, Kiehl’s. Following Andy …
Anti-Aesthetic: The Scents of Comme des Garçons
“Anti-aesthetic”…signals that the very notion of the aesthetic, its network of ideas, is in question here: the ideas that aesthetic experience exists …
On the trail of a flavor genome: Anicka Yi’s sensorial art – now on Cafleurebon!
A few months ago, the fabulous Mark Behnke, editor of the award-winning perfume blog, Cafleurebon.com, invited this perfumista to be a guest …
Taxicab Confessions: Interview with Christopher Brosius
Many thanks to Candy Perfume Boy for bringing my attention to this video! This perfumista loves CB I Hate Perfume. I love …
A Philosophy of Love: the Self and the Scented
“Does my heart move because I love someone who is an absolute singularity, or because I love the way someone is?”–Jacques Derrida …
Spirited Away: Scent News from New York
August has been quite the month in the New York fragrance world. Elements Showcase brought dozens of perfumers and cosmetics brands to …
Immaterial: perfume and contemporary art
When I began this blog, I intended it to be an outlet for me to get out my writerly urges, and …
A Whiff of Revolution: New York artist Lisa Kirk bottles the smell of war
The combination of art with politics is a subject that has always interested me. A few weeks ago, I traveled to Kassel, …
From Faking It to Making It: Icelandic Visual Artist Andrea Maack’s Perfume Line
A visual artist turned niche perfumer? The Icelandic Review magazine features a story on Andrea Maack, a visual artist who began in …