Christina Aguilera will be at Macy's in the Glendale Galleria in Glendale, California on Friday, December 5th at 4 pm to greet fans and introduce her new fragrance, Inspire. (via press release)
Perfume meet & greet (plus new perfume): Bond no. 9 at Saks in Boca Raton
Laurice Rahme of Bond no. 9 will be at the Saks Fifth Avenue department store in Boca Raton, Florida to introduce the brand’s first fragrance for an “outside New York” location. The scent was created exclusively for the Boca Raton Saks, and that is all I know about that…
One man’s stink…
One man's stink is another man's major art project.
A piece by Belgian conceptual artist Jan Fabre at Antwerp's MuHKA contemporary art museum is challenging the nose as well as the eyes.
The installation "Spring Is on Its Way" consists of onions and potatoes hung from the ceiling in condoms. And the vegetables are, well, spoiling.
— From Organic Art Spoils the Pleasure of Patrons in The Washington Post, an article about artist Jan Fabre's installation at the exhibit COLLECTIE XXIII, which runs through 4/1 at the MuHKA museum in Antwerp. Many thanks to March for the link! (image via muhka.be)
Bonus reading: Meat sculpture causes stink at BBC News and 2004 interview with Jan Fabre at Sculpture.org.
Chandler Burr on The Perfect Scent: a talk in New York City
Chandler Burr, author of The Perfect Scent, will be giving a talk in New York City on December 8 as part of the Times Talks series:
Perfumes are classic holiday gifts. But perfume is also one the world's great art forms. Discover both aspects of scent in this fascinating interactive guided tour of some of the world's fragrance masterpieces, led by Chandler Burr, fragrance critic for The New York Times Style Magazine and author of “The Perfect Scent: A Year Inside the Perfume Industry in Paris & New York.” You will smell jasmine from Grasse, pink peppercorn absolutes…
Cinquieme Sens perfume classes in New York
Cinquième Sens, “the leading olfactory training center in Paris”, has recently opened a US branch in New York City. They have two upcoming sessions for their 2-day course, “Introduction to the techniques of perfumery and the language of scents”, designed for “perfume enthusiasts who would like to work in the perfume world, students who would like to start a marketing or sales career in the fragrance industry…”