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

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments (1997-1-1960)–ca 1938 (Image osmoscope) “You don’t want to just do a problem because it’s...

Some words recently culled from the book "Smell of Risk" by Huan Hsu. Chosen to remind us how scent really can be a powerful player in...

Aryballos in the form of three cockle shells, 6th century BC (Metropolitan Museum of Art) This week is an installation of Greek words...