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Jul 6
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Installation 46: The Smell of Work

No longer a smell of success but a quiet, revolt to the culture of work is emerging amongst Chinese youth. The ban wei, the smell of work...

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May 16
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Installation 45: Smell Squiggles Breathe Life to Images

Universal visual squiggles can communicate direct, heretic qualities of smell - stink, stunk, smell and fragrance can be communicated...

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Apr 28
4 min

Installation 44: The Nose and Our Evolutionary Impulse: Sex, part two

As a clinical mental health therapist I spend a lot of time trying deeply not to pathologize normal behavior in one breath, and trying to...

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Mar 21
4 min

Installation 43: AdoleScents: Smells Like Teen Spirit

(penguin puberty is not unlike human puberty in some ways) On this international fragrance day a post to celebrate the scent of...

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Dec 20, 2023
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Installation 42: Excess Leads to the Power of Wisdom

During this season of excess, a few words to round out - in excess - the sense of scent. As with gift giving, these are some treasures I...

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Aug 12, 2023
3 min

Installation 41: Everything is Better with Butter - Getting Agrestic in Vermont

Thank you to Diane St. Clair of St. Clair Scents for contributing to the Odorbet! Diane's evolution as a perfumer is nothing short of...

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May 22, 2023
2 min

Installation 40: Space Between Intersections and Feelings

Today's installation is the first provided by a perfume reviewer: Joseph Colbourne is known as Alphairone on Fragrantica, Colbourne on...

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Apr 17, 2023
3 min

Installation 39: South Asian words for stimulating the nose, brain and palate.

Thank you to the global collaborative pair Bharti Lalwani (Pune India) and Nicolas Roth (Cambridge, Massachusets) for entries to the...

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Mar 27, 2023
6 min

Installation 38: Olfaction + Action = Olfactor/Olfacteur

I recently had the pleasure of interviewing Sandra Barré curator of olfactory art and writer who just completed an ambitious olfactory...

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Jan 8, 2023
2 min

Installation 37: To Smell a Rat

Apologies to the powerful rodent that likely outnumbers the humans in Manhattan, but there is a case of rat smelling in the scent world....

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Jun 26, 2022
2 min

Installation 36: Start Making Sense/Scents

Image courtesy the artist. Chester Gibs is a multi-disciplinary artist born in The Netherlands and of Indonesian descent. Growing up he...

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Apr 22, 2022
2 min

Installation 35: The Importance of Being Earnest | Nosewash

Creativity and innovation happen in relaxed and critical dialogue. Great ideas come to you in the shower, on a walk, or under the shade...

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Mar 17, 2022
5 min

Installation 34: A Curious Case of Nosebo

What you put your attention on grows stronger. - anonymous Our minds are literal judgement factories, we create hundreds of thousands of...

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Feb 4, 2022
4 min

Installation 33: 2,337 Year Old Nose Musings

One of the more humbling features of human knowledge is the fact that despite our belief in progression, innovation and savvy, voices...

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Dec 5, 2021
1 min

Installation 32: Words for Scent and Architecture

Photo: Courtesy of An Ode to Smell Project Definition: 1. (Science) Olfactory mapping is the chemical and physical process of how we...

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Nov 19, 2021
2 min

Installation 31: Words for the Scent Scene

We are grateful this week for an installation curated for the Odorbet by the talented fragrance and beauty writer Carla Seipp. The flavor...

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Oct 8, 2021
2 min

Installation 30: Play is the Highest Form of Research - AE

In this installation we share the importance of play when creating, exploring, researching and making. When the landscape of smell is...

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Sep 10, 2021
3 min

Installation 29: Fresh Plump Purses

A first galley proof of À la recherche du temps perdu: Du côté de chez Swann with Proust's handwritten corrections Marcel Proust (MP) has...

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Aug 17, 2021
6 min

Installation 28: Rhinoferocious

Originally published last week on Aromatica Poetica. Rhinoart – art for your nose "As museums become more comfortable with the concept of...

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Jun 21, 2021
2 min

Installation 27: Ambery for the Win

This installation marks an important shift in the perfume industry, where an entire genre has been renamed out of respect for the fact...

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