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Wherever there’s air, there is a smell

Posted by Robin on 19 September 2022 2 Comments

One of the few champions of the olfactory senses as an artistic medium is Sissel Tolaas, a Norwegian-born, Berlin-based artist that has been exploring smells for more than 25 years. [...]

“Smell is everything. Wherever there’s air, there is a smell,” said Tolaas. “It’s why I call myself a professional in-betweener, because life is everywhere. Where there’s smell, there’s life.”

The Institute for Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania is now hosting Tolaas’ first major U.S. exhibition, with the abstract title “RE______.” An earlier version of the show was originally created by the Astrup Fearnley Museum in Oslo, Norway.

— Read more in Dollars and scents: Follow your nose through this exhibition at ICA at WHYY. The exhibit runs through December 30, and you can find out more here.

Wine in hand

Posted by Robin on 16 April 2018 2 Comments

Since opening in early March, Wax & Wine has hosted two bridal showers and a few birthday and just-because gatherings. You can walk in and  make a candle, or you can rent out the back room for a party. It costs $30 to make one eight-ounce candle ($45 for two and $50 for three),  about the same it costs to buy a 14-ounce Yankee Candle.

On a recent evening, 12 women in their late 20s and early 30s arrived at Wax & Wine, wearing long coats, long hair, and with wine in hand.

— Anyone else remember those DIY fragrance blending bars at Garden Botanika? (I think they all closed in 2001.) What they were missing was wine. Read more about the DIY candles at Philadelphia's Wax & Wine in How your nose might lead you to your next girl's night out.

Perfume in the news: Scent is Life, Choose Wisely

Posted by Robin on 6 June 2006 Leave a Comment

Delawareonline has a review of the Scent is Life exhibit in Philadelphia. The exhibit is a collaboration between perfumer Christopher Brosius and scientists at the Monell Chemical Senses Center:

Another section, called “Interpretation,” shows how the same scent — a lily — can elicit different feelings and memories in different contexts. The first grouping of three scents evokes a field of lilies; the second, a perfume redolent with lilies; the third, an arrangement of lilies at a funeral…

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