I linked out to a different version of this video in the past (if you saw it, this one has less of a "slasher flick" feel). It's for the newly launched Boudicca Wode, the fragrance that comes in two forms: Paint (which turns your skin and/or clothing temporarily blue) and Scent (which doesn't). It took me several minutes to decipher that sound: it's shaking paint can, isn't it?
Lancome Magnifique at La noche en blanco in Madrid
Lancôme's new fragrance, Magnifique, will be making an appearance at Madrid's third annual La noche en blanco this Saturday, September 13th. Artist Ana Laura Aláez will construct a red geometric sculpture inspired by Magnifique's bottle in front of the Palacio Real:
A feminine, contemporary space, painted red and made with iron and methacrylate, will serve as the dwelling place of a female violoncello player. From its small, inhabitable shape, created by renowned artist Ana Laura Aláez, it will try to create a musical dialogue with the building next door, the Royal Palace…
Jo Malone + Swan Lake ~ perfume in the news
Jo Malone's new Sweet Lime & Cedar fragrance will be scenting Cecilie Egeberg’s fragrance installation, Fields of Feathers, at the Deloitte Ignite Festival at the Royal Opera House, London:
Welcome to a very alternative take on ‘Swan Lake’ with the help of fragrance and beauty company, Jo Malone, and artist, Cecilie Egeberg…
SMART by Andrea Maack ~ scented art exhibit in Iceland
As part of the 2008 Reykjavík Arts Festival, Gallerí Ágúst is hosting artist Andrea Maack’s solo exhibit SMART:
In her art, Andrea likes to work with ideas of beauty, fashion, appearance-obsession, body, health and death, whether it be in the form of drawings, sculpture or even scent. Andrea widens the perception of the spectator and creates a new way of sentience. Her art ignites the senses of the audience; a perception of beauty, emotion, impact, story and memory…
If There Ever Was ~ an exhibition of extinct and impossible smells
The Reg Vardy Gallery at the University of Sunderland, Tyne & Wear, England, will host If There Ever Was: an exhibition of extinct and impossible smells:
In his book of essays entitled, Late Night Thoughts on Listening to Mahler’s Ninth Symphony, the physician Lewis Thomas wrote, “The act of smelling something, anything, is remarkably like the act of thinking itself.” And it is with this appreciation of smell as comparable to thought and interpretation that the exhibition If There Ever Was considers scent as integral to the perception of abstraction and representation…