Confessions of a Mad Perfumista

A personal journey into the culture of perfume

Scent and Subversion: a book on 20th Century perfumery by Barbara Herman

In the last decade we have seen many excellent books written about perfume that are intended for a mainstream audience. Among them are non fiction books about the science of scent and the perfume...

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Maria Loboda Recreates Smoking Room as Scented Garden

“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...

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Olfactive Studio: Photographers and Perfumers Join Forces

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...

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Doug Wada’s Perfume Bottle Prints

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...

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Learning Perfume Notes

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...

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Perfume in Art

Reblogged from Perfumery Tools: Smell has this reputation of being somewhat different for each person. It’s not really true. Perfumery shows you that can’t be true, because if it were like that it...

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Mad Perfumista in Man of the World Magazine

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,...

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Francesco Vezzoli’s Decadent Perfume Faux-Mercial

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...

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Feet of the Gods by Jay Batlle

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...

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That Smells Radical: Fluxus Art Engages the Nose

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...

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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 the blog and now we have a complete online archive of the...

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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 on the books themselves. Here are all of my books on perfume that I use for...

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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. It began with a trip I took to Paris in December 2011, during which I devoted my time...

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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 my hands, and most of all, the smell of them, both new paperbacks and old...

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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 York salon to be held by the Society of Independent Artists....

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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 marketing of the scent, the most successful campaign in history, has...

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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 no way that I could foresee the enormous overlap between art, the subject of my professional...

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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 sense of smell could procure pleasures equal to those...

Nov 24, 2012 Like

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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 your eyes to new experiences, and challenges old notions. Through...

Nov 19, 2012 Like

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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, you often feel like it’s a losing battle. There are events, however, that I try never to miss, and...

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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 animal communication. I wanted to isolate these primal human essences and...

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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 Warhol’s example of embracing mass culture...

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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 apart, without “purpose,” all but beyond...

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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 blogger. I’m so grateful, honored and excited that Mark...

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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 the artistry of Brosius and the way he has revolutionized the way we think...

Sep 13, 2012 Like

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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 When I was a teenager, there was a distinction between “love” (with...

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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 Tenth Avenue and West 36th Street in its third incarnation....

Aug 29, 2012 Like

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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 to establish a voice in the blogosphere that specifically explores the resonances between perfume and...

Jul 25, 2012 Like

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Scent and Subversion: a book on 20th Century perfumery by Barbara Herman

Maria Loboda Recreates Smoking Room as Scented Garden

Olfactive Studio: Photographers and Perfumers Join Forces

Doug Wada’s Perfume Bottle Prints

Learning Perfume Notes

Hello world!

Perfume in Art

Mad Perfumista in Man of the World Magazine

Francesco Vezzoli’s Decadent Perfume Faux-Mercial

Feet of the Gods by Jay Batlle

That Smells Radical: Fluxus Art Engages the Nose

Luca Turin: The World Upside Down

My Perfume Book Collection

Olfactory Resistance: Celebrating Mad Perfumista’s First Anniversary

Vive le livre! Long live books!

The Art of Scent : 1889-2012 — Exhibition Review

Deconstructing Chanel No. 5: Work by Maki Ueda

Perfume on the Beach: Nyehaus Presents Rebels in Paradise during ABMB

JK Huysmans on Perfume as Art

The Dark Wonder of Kiki Smith

Jul et Mad Paris and Aftel’s Chef’s Essences at MiN New York

Smell Me: Martynka Wawrzyniak’s Scented Exhibition at Envoy Enterprises

Making Up and Selling Out: Kenny Scharf and Jean-Michel Othoniel Collaborate with Kiehl’s and Dior

Anti-Aesthetic: The Scents of Comme des Garçons

On the trail of a flavor genome: Anicka Yi’s sensorial art – now on Cafleurebon!

Taxicab Confessions: Interview with Christopher Brosius

A Philosophy of Love: the Self and the Scented

Spirited Away: Scent News from New York

Immaterial: perfume and contemporary art

A Whiff of Revolution: New York artist Lisa Kirk bottles the smell of war

Esscentual Alchemy

Krista Janicki

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Confessions of a Mad Perfumista

Scent and Subversion: a book on 20th Century perfumery by Barbara Herman

Maria Loboda Recreates Smoking Room as Scented Garden

Olfactive Studio: Photographers and Perfumers Join Forces

Doug Wada’s Perfume Bottle Prints

Learning Perfume Notes

Hello world!

Perfume in Art

Mad Perfumista in Man of the World Magazine

Francesco Vezzoli’s Decadent Perfume Faux-Mercial

Feet of the Gods by Jay Batlle

That Smells Radical: Fluxus Art Engages the Nose

Luca Turin: The World Upside Down

My Perfume Book Collection

Olfactory Resistance: Celebrating Mad Perfumista’s First Anniversary

Vive le livre! Long live books!

The Art of Scent : 1889-2012 — Exhibition Review

Deconstructing Chanel No. 5: Work by Maki Ueda

Perfume on the Beach: Nyehaus Presents Rebels in Paradise during ABMB

JK Huysmans on Perfume as Art

The Dark Wonder of Kiki Smith

Jul et Mad Paris and Aftel’s Chef’s Essences at MiN New York

Smell Me: Martynka Wawrzyniak’s Scented Exhibition at Envoy Enterprises

Making Up and Selling Out: Kenny Scharf and Jean-Michel Othoniel Collaborate with Kiehl’s and Dior

Anti-Aesthetic: The Scents of Comme des Garçons

On the trail of a flavor genome: Anicka Yi’s sensorial art – now on Cafleurebon!

Taxicab Confessions: Interview with Christopher Brosius

A Philosophy of Love: the Self and the Scented

Spirited Away: Scent News from New York

Immaterial: perfume and contemporary art

A Whiff of Revolution: New York artist Lisa Kirk bottles the smell of war

Esscentual Alchemy

Krista Janicki

+ 4 more followers

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