LifeLabs New York, a non-profit adult education company, is offering a scent tour of Brooklyn's Williamsburg neighborhood:
The ‘Williamsburg smells (good)’ tour is a social smelling adventure, using the streets of Williamsburg, Brooklyn to activate and learn about our enigmatic sense of smell. Topics on the menu: Scent, memory, & emotions. Crayola crayons, sugar, leather, subway grease, your grandma’s perfume and the smell of kindness.
You’ll meet other curious & sociable scent-adventurers as we sniff out 5 alluring spots in Williamsburg’s back yard: a hip & heady brewery, warm polish bakery, deep-smelling eco- chocolate factory, happy coffee grindery, and a poetic perfumery, all within an 8 block radius of one another.
The course will be held on Saturday, February 5th from noon to 3 ($22); more information here. Thanks to Jessica for the link!
This sounds like it would be a good idea, if it werent being attempted during the frigid New York winter.
Yeah. I’d rather do this in May.
I like this idea!
It’s a great idea.
what Poetic Perfumery do they visit!
So wish I lived in NYC…..
I think it is CB I Hate Perfumes…
That would be my guess.
This sounds really fun and interesting. I’ll see if I can go…Has anyone done anything like this? Is it fun for kids (11 and 13) or would they be bored to death?
No idea…it is an “adult education” org, but that doesn’t mean much. Maybe email them?
If the event includes a visit to a brewery, there may be a minimum age. My husband and I took a tour or a rum distillery, and it was adults only. I think 18 to 20-year-olds could participate if accompanied by an adult over 21, but no one under 18 was allowed.
This sounds like fun. I can identify with some of the items described.
The brother of a friend lives in Williamsburg. In the fall, I told him about my interest in perfume and he mentioned CB IHP, which is apparently just around the corner from him and which he visited. I told him what I knew about the line and CB himself, and when I ran into him at my friend’s place over the holidays, he immediately blurted out: “Hey, I think of you all the time! Every time I pass that place with the perfumes that smell like graves and dust and cat butt and whatever…” I wasn’t sure whether to be flattered or not. Will definitely hit CB’s shop next time I’m in NYC.
I can hear the Bond No. 9 lawyers loading their guns….
Huh? Why?
Bond is notorious for threatening suit against anyone they deem to be approaching their copyrights. A few years back, they threatened to sue an indie perfumer for using the word Peace in a perfume name because Bond has a fragrance called… Scent of Peace, I think.
Yeah, just making a facetious stab, but really would not put it past that company.
Gotcha, yes, I’ve heard that kind of thing about Bond before. It’s one of the things that puts me off the Bond line.