Event Report: The First Annual AIX SCENT FAIR at The Hammer Museum + Artisan and Independent Fragrances Draw

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In the upper courtyard of the Hammer Museum in LA the wind was blowing the black tablecloths around and sending small items like Isabelle Michaud of Monsillage’s fluffy sniff feathers flying. It was cold enough to wear a winter coat, and it had been raining that morning. Nevertheless, the intrepid perfumers and exhibitors were mostly there setting up their booths for the first-ever AIX Scent Fair, held for two days in conjunction with the Institute for Art and Olfaction Awards.

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Devin Klein

Saskia Wilson-Brown, founder and force of nature behind the IAO, and Darin Klein of the Hammer Museum, were running around like the organizers they were, taking care of every little detail of every crisis that arose. I suspect that neither of them had slept for quite a while.

As an exhibitor, setup on Friday was the only time I had to walk around and photograph the exhibits, some fully formed, others in various stages of development. Saturday and Sunday there was a non-stop stream of visitors, ranging from long-time, incredibly knowledgeable perfume enthusiasts to those bemused museum-goers who were experiencing mass quantities of perfume for the first time. Sunday was Mother’s Day, and there was a children’s event, so a lot of children were there with their parents. Attendance at all of the events was huge.

Among the materials that I received at check-in was a “cheat sheet” with all of the exhibitors’ descriptions of their work, so this account is a combination of my own impressions and what they say about themselves as well as imput from Michelyn.

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Amber Jobin of Aether Arts

Aether Arts Perfumes,based in Denver, Colorado, is the brand of Amber Jobin, student and colleague of Dawn Spencer Hurwitz. Amber creates unusual scents inspired by cannabis, Burning Man, and exotic locations. John Frum was the winner in the 2014 Art and Olfaction Awards artisan category.  For the show, Amber launched a new fragrance Saffron.

Beau Rhee of Atelier de Geste, based in NY, was exhibiting two new limited-edition releases, Blues and Stones  (CaFleureBon just  reviewed Blues a natural marine-type scent designed to accompany a choreographic performance, and  Stones is meant to express the idea of wet boulders moving through misty forest moss.

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Eugene and Emrys Au of Auphorie

Auphorie is a perfume company based in Malaysia, founded by two charming young brothers, Eugene and Emrys Au, who come from a background in pastry making and soft drink formulation. Their perfume, Miyako, was a winner in the artisan category. The goal of the brothers Au is to “bridge the gap between the old (cultures, heritages) and the new (technologies, interpretations)”. They have done this quite skillfully in Miyako and the other scents that they had on exhibit.

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Antonio  Gardoni

Bogue Profumo is Italian artisan perfumer and IAO judge Antonio Gardoni’s company. My perfumes are rooms to discover with mood, texture, light and colour..’

Brooklyn Perfume Company was founded by James Peterson who has worked as a chef in “France’s greatest restaurants”. His philosophy is to let the raw materials “express themselves as you would an oyster, a lobster, or a piece of meatloaf”. I like that approach!

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Bruno Fazzolari

Bruno Fazzolari comes from a visual arts background, having worked as an artist and sculptor before adding perfumery to his skills. He was also the original motivating force behind the Art and Olfaction Awards. Both Bruno and Antonio collaborated on Cadavre Exquis, which was introduced at the show.

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Cat Jones

Cat Jones, winner of this year’s Sadikichi Award for Experimental Work with Scent comes from Australia, where her project, “Century’s Breath” describes the scents that might be found on the Le Fevre Peninsula in South Australia over the next century. It’s a frightening look at the future of a wild and beautiful part of the world.

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Charenton Macerations

Douglas  Bender of Charenton Macerations, based in Brooklyn adopts a queer immersive approach to perfumery that subverts outmoded norms of structural constraints and gender stereotypes in pursuit of creative alternatives.” Best known for Christopher Street and Asphalt Rainbow, his scents were presented in boxes, though, not out of the box. He has been a Cafleurebon contributor with his memorable series A Queer History of Fashion and The Untapped Potential for Queer Fragrance

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Dannielle Sergent of Cognoscenti

Cognoscenti, founded by Danielle Sargent, who studied architecture and is also a visual artist, “draws from the classic perfumery of the past and pushes it to the future with innovative combinations of ingredients”, producing fragrances that are not only “suitable for everyone”, but beautifully packaged.

 Dasein is a line of fragrances produced by Sam Rader who creates “cruelty-free and toxin-free scents” at her home in LA. Her bottles recently won the 2016 Graphic Design USA package design award.  Her exhibit included fragrances to represent the four seasons, Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter.

DeadWriters

Dead Writers Perfume is a spin-off of Jen Siems’ Sweet Tea Apothecary in Seattle, whose goal is to create scents that take the wearer on a “scent journey through time, memory, and the ghosts of words past”.

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Dawn Spencer Hurwitz and Michael Mik Coyles

DSH Perfumes is the company of super-prolific Dawn Spencer Hurwitz, who says she makes at least 40 perfumes every year at her studio in Colorado. Her Exhibit included three recent projects in collaboration with the Denver Art Museum, Brilliant”, based on Cartier gemstone art works, “Giverny in Bloom, based on the paintings of Monet, and  her new “Chroma”, a “synesthetic project” that creates fragrances based on artists’ paint colors.

El Jardi Secret is a small company based Barcelona, Spain.  

Goest Perfumes, based in LA, specialize in fragrances that are designed to complement the natural (or in this case, unnatural) scents of the human body. Their exhibit featured a “smoker’s perfume” that combines with the lingering smell of stale cigarette smoke to “create a new, total, complete fragrance which adapts uniquely to each person”.

Ideaesthesia, Michael Coyle’s spinoff of Mik Moi Perfumes, featured five original silk-screens, each of which was sprayed with two different scents “from traditional aromatic ingredients used by shamans”, that combined to represent “Birth (citrus), Breath (green), North (floral), Known (wood) and Found (spice).

Imaginary Authors is Portland perfumer Josh Meyer’s company that specializes on exactly what the name implies, a line based on books that have never been written by authors who never lived. Each perfume bottle is wrapped in what looks like the cover art of a book. Fan favorites include Memoirs of a Trespasser and A City on Fire.

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J Hannah Co

J Hannah Co. was founded by San Francisco natural perfumer Jessica Hannah, who won the Art and Olfaction independent award in 2015 for her fragrance Skive, made for a leather company. “Her practice has been greatly influenced by her studies of natural aromatic history and aromatherapy, as well as performance art”. Mik was wearing one of his silk scarves to try to stay warm!

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Jessica Hannah

Jessica  presented  SUNSET BLVD. Inspired by Billy Wilder’s classic 1950 film, this perfume is a dramatic oriental with notes of rose, yuzu, cinnamon, patchouli, and tonka bean evokes the dressing room of the great Norma Desmond, with all her drama, pride, and sadness.  She also debuted UPTON, an uplifting new spicy lavender  perfume.Notes of Yuzu, Virginia Cedarwood, Lavender Absolute, and Vetiver

JazminSarai

 Dana El Masri of Jazmin Sarai, based in New York, specializes in music-themed fragrances that connect one ephemeral, invisible medium of expression with another. Her exhibit showcased a set of headphones that played selected songs along with perfumes that are “homage to the artist who created the song” linking the features of each song with its analogue in the sense of smell. Dana is also the writer of Flower Power which won The Perfumed Plume Award for the Science of Scent for Cafleurebon.

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Heather Kaufman of Jolie Laide

Heather Kaufman of Jolie Laide Perfumes, out of San Francisco, features a selection of all-natural, handmade botanical perfumes. Her attractive display included a set of monclins set on slabs of colored agate. Heather launched La Peau Douce, a spicy sandalwood.

L'OeilduVert

L’Oeil du Vert is an LA company founded by Haley Van Oosten, that specializes in custom fragrance design. They have made scented wrist feathers, pomanders, and ambient scenters for various events. For their exhibit they presented a “selection of their work honoring the alchemical origins of their craft”.

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La Lun Naturals

 Maggie Mahboubian and her Parfums Lalun presented the Phenomene Verte series that showcases hand-extracted botanicals from natural materials sourced within the LA area, in places ranging from Maggie’s garden to different sites throughout the Los Angeles Basin. Maggie is not only a perfumer, she is an architect and organizer of the FRAGments perfume events.

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Maison Anonyme, by Christopher Gordon launched his first three fragrances, L’Immortel, Vespero, and Pale Fire, which they collectively call Eaux d’Artifice”.

Manifest Destiny is a candle company that featured their “Lux Aeterna” collection of lovely black wax candles, “Polaris”, “Tabloid”, and “Tumbleweed”.

Maria Candida Gentile, from Italy, presented an exhibit based on the story of Pinocchio, a “memory box” that opens to release a scent of “burnt wooden pine, the scent of ancient paper and bread, a shade of sugar”.

Mendittorosa Odori d’Anima, an Italian niche company, presented a series of perfumes described as “researches and remedies, talismans and reconnections”. “Le Mat” was inspired by, and presented with, a deck of tarot cards, along with “Sogno Reale” and “Nettuno”.

Menyan Projects, developed by sisters Mimi and Fiona Ryan, presented fragrances made using essential oils from regional farms, distilled in Indonesia. A percentage of their profit is donated to an organization that promotes conservation and sustainable farming in Indonesia.

Monsillage is a Canadian niche brand, founded by Isabelle Michaud who won the 2015 Art and Olfaction Award in the artisan category for her “Eau de Celeri”. She showed a variety of scents from her line.

Neandertal Perfume probably had the most bare-bones exhibit of all, no pun intended. They showed two perfumes in bottles made to look like arrow points, which they say are “designed for contemporary Neandertals”.

Nobile 1942, is an Italian niche company specializing in handmade natural perfumes. It has been in operation for three generations. They showcased a variety of their fragrances.

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Olympic Orchids Perfumes, my Seattle-based company, partnered with Laurie Erickson’s Sonoma Scent Studio to present a hands-on exhibit illustrating how different raw materials can be used by two different perfumers to achieve very different effects. Those who attended the Scent Fair seemed to enjoy smelling the raw materials that were on display and then trying to identify them in the finished perfumes.

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Ellen Covey with the Golden Pear

I was winner of the 2014 Art and Olfaction award in the artisan category for “Woodcut”, and this year’s award in the independent category for Zoologist “Bat”.  Laurie launched Equestrian, a new fragrance, with hay and leather inspired by her childhood and love of horses.

On Forgetting/Filling the Flask was an exhibit “based on Psyche’s journey where she encounters four seemingly impossible tasks”, including filling a flask with water from the River Styx.

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Irina's display for Ka Pueo

Phoenix Botanicals, the natural perfumery company of Irina Adam who is based  in New York, showed “Ka Pueo (The Owl) … inspired by nocturnal Owl sightings in Hawaii”. She used glass domes to “showcase the top, middle, and base accords, with notes listed”.

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Paul Kiler

PK Perfumes, Paul Kiler’s LA-based company showed a number of his fragrances in his beautiful custom-made, lighted display cases. He debuted Starry Starry Night homage to Vincent Van Gogh with notes of orange blossoms, clove, sandalwood, and a touch of cucumber, voluptuous with frankincense, smoked pine, and musk. Another new fragrance for Paul is Heaven Fresh.

Portland Apothecary, founded by Elie Barausky, specializes in aromatherapy, bath and body products, herbal teas and other scented products including “ritual misters and oils to help transform your space and mood”.

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Sarah Baker, based in London, has worked with Ashley Eden Kessler of the Institute for Art and Olfaction to create a series of perfumes “inspired by expensive fashion motifs that are printed on the bottles”.

Scenthouse LA, which specializes in niche scented candles, had an exhibit that recreated a gymnasium scene complete with a scent that included “steam, black rubber, chlorine, iron, sweat, eucalyptus, and more”.

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Daniel Krasofki and Lindsay Tunkl

Scents of the Apocalypse was a collaborative exhibit by Artist Lindsay Tunkl, who offered 10-minute “pre-apocalypse counseling” sessions and scent artist Daniel Krasofski, who formulated four “apocalyptic” scents: Asteroid Collision, Nuclear Blast, Tsunami, and Drought. The goal of the project was to “examine humanity’s emotional connection to the probable or improbable apocalypse”.

The Institute for Art and Olfaction had a display where they exhibited all of the finalists' fragrances. The availability of these fragrances for two days as well as at the awards event was a big plus.

The Smelly Vials Perfume Club was created as “an informal bi-monthly blending session for the Institute for Art and Olfaction’s most regular attendees. On display were blending kits and other materials that might be used by the club.

Tigerlily Perfumery is “San Francisco’s only brick-and-mortar boutique and online storefront dedicated entirely to the discovery and enjoyment of artisan and niche perfumes. Owner Antonia Kohl was there with displays of Bay Area perfumers’ work and customer favorites.

Xyrena

Xyrena is an LA-based “boutique celebrity fragrance house” that is also officially endorsed by organizations such as PETA as “cruelty-free and vegan”.

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Saskia Wilson-Brown

In just three years the Institute for Art and Olfaction has come a long way. Saskia’s continuing efforts to promote the Institute and its activities, the partnership with the Hammer Museum, and the addition of the AIX Scent Fair has taken the IAO Awards to a new level of international visibility. The camaraderie that had already developed among North American artisan and indie perfumers has broadened and deepened, while new collaborations and friendships are developing among perfumers and artists worldwide. The AIX Scent Fair was a wonderful example of how artists who work in scent and other media using the entire spectrum of approaches can come together, and how everyone on the creative side can respect and appreciate work that may be outside their sphere of familiarity, or even their comfort level. I look forward to continued discourse and collaboration among everyone who works in the field of olfactory art in the broadest sense of the term

Dr Ellen Covey, Guest Contributor

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Ellen Covey and Victor Wong  of Zoologist

Contributions from Michelyn Camen, Editor in Chief who is forever grateful to Dr. Covey who found the time to write up this event report and take photos. Let’s also congratulate her and Victor Wong of Zoologist.  

Thanks to many of the artisan and indie perfumers we have a draw for many samples from the AIX  Scent Fair Exhibition:

 Worldwide  and USA : From  Olympic Orchids  a sample vial of Bat, one of White Cattleya, which was the favorite of almost every child who came by Ellen’s booth, and one of Woodcut, from Paul Kiler  we have sample  vials  of Starry Starry Night and Heaven Fresh, Monsillage is providing a sample of Eau Celeri, Le Mat from Mendittorosa Odori d’Anima, Phoenix Botanicals is offering  a sample of  Ka Pueo  and DSH Perfumes is offering Volume 1 and 2 of the Chroma series

USA only:  samples of all of the above plus J.Hannah Sunset Blvd, Equestrian, Aether Arts Saffron and some samples from Mik Moi

There will be one winner only. To be eligible you must be a registered reader please leave a comment  with your thoughts on the AIX Scent Fair , the Exhibitors and where you live. Draw close 5/15/2016.

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34 comments

  • fazalcheema says:

    I could not help but notice NY and CA are really becoming the independent perfumery headquarters of the US. So many brands are Brooklyn, SF, and LA based. In addition, it is good that more and more European brands are participating in exhibitions in the U.S. because they understand the importance of American market. I wonder how this era of perfumery will be looked up few decades from now. thanks a lot for the wonderful draw. I am in the US

  • Firstly, congratulations to you Ellen (and Victor) on the award for Bat – what a well-deserved honor! So many of the scents featured at the AIX Scent Fair sound really intriguing to me – and I’ve only tried 1! I’m particularly interested in Sunset Blvd because I really love the movie and Starry Starry Night as there’s actually a large starry night-esque mural on the walls of my stairwell. I’m so curious how the perfumers interpreted these things which I love so dearly. Thanks so much for this generous draw, I’m in the US!

  • Congrats to all the winners and those who were part of the finalists. Those are the best of the best. I think this was an experience in itself as far as exhibitions. It gives many the chance to try scents, learn more about scents and their creators and see what a fragrance competition is like.
    I live in the US. I would LOVE to win the samples since I was unable to attend due to a migraine.

  • BostonScentGuy says:

    Wow! What a roundup of this event! Glad to see a huge celebration like this in the US after reading about major fragrance “festivals” overseas in Europe. Congrats to everyone who won certainly (you included, Ellen, for a scent I have been looking forward to trying). Happy to see some favorite brands mentioned (Cadavre Exquise sounds like a really interesting project at least partially by one of my favorite new perfumers!). Sunset Blvd intrigues me as someone who knows the story well–of course it is a dramatic oriental!

    I would be thrilled to be entered into a sample draw as I’m consistently unable to make it to such fun events like this!

    I’m in the US.

  • Lellabelle says:

    Wow. So many treasures to discover! And such a thorough write up from Ellen Covey. Many congrats to Ellen and to Victor also. It sounds like a wonderful event, with some incredible creativity and some fascinating perfumers present. I love the idea of perfumed wrist feathers!!
    Please enter me for the draw. I’d love to be able to sample some of the delights from the show :). U.S.

  • Which there were fairs like that near where I live; amazing variety of indie perfumers, there must me some jewls among all of those fragrances.
    Very curious about Maison Anonyme, by Christopher Gordon, and Dana El Masri of Jazmin Sarai who makes Dana El Masri of Jazmin Sarai who specializes in music-themed fragrances! How cool is that ! 🙂

    I live in the EU.

  • There in so many fragrances at AIX Scent Fair what are sounds incredibly nice. I would very like to try those interesting and wonderful scents. Congratulation all of the winners, and those who took part of it. Thank you for the draw. I live in Europe.

  • thegoddessrena says:

    An artisan scent fair sounds like my idea of heaven . I think I’m going to have to investigate a lot of the exhibitors further. I’m in the US

  • So many perfumers there I first read about on these pages and along the way have smelled their creations. I see they have new perfumes to offer and I’d love to win this sample bag. 🙂 US

  • Ellen, congrats on everything and what a lovely round-up of information! Would love to have been at the Aix Scent Fair — I hope i get an opportunity to attend in the future! I have yet to smell Woodcut or Bat, which are on my “must” list, and the other offerings sound wonderful as well! This would be a great early-summer treat, smelling all these samples! i live in the U.S.

  • Hikmat Sher Afridi says:

    The AIX Scent Fair was a wonderful effort for artisan and indie perfumers. A year ago I was interested in natural, artisan and indie perfume houses. Now I have perfumes from such houses like JoAnne BAssett, House of Matriarch, La Via del Profumo and Imaginary Authors. Many are on my want list. Now I am more inclined to Artisan, natural & indie perfumes. Thanks for wonderful giveaway/draw.
    I live in Peshawar, Pakistan

  • Wow! So many perfumers I have yet to discover, but would love to try. So nice to have such a show stateside. Please enter me for the draw. I’d love to sample some of the treats from the show. U.S.

  • I wish I could have gone to the AIX Scent Fair, sounds wonderful! I know a few of the exhibitors, notably Cognoscenti and Portland Apothecary, both of which I love. I’m really curious about Neandertal Perfume. What a concept! I’m in Canada, thank you.

  • teresa310 says:

    Wow! What a wonderful event, I wish I could have been there… I am particularly curious about Starry Stary Night and Eau Celeri.
    Fingers crossed for winning this time 🙂
    (EU)

  • So many talented artists! I would love to have attended, but thanks for the walk through. I read with particular interest about Cat Jones experimental work as my husband comes from South Australia and we regularly take trips to that beautiful peninsula. There are so many perfumers whose work I would love to try, but in particular I want to get my hands on Bat. If I;m not the winner I will order this immediately as I have been wanting to try it for over a year! Thanks for the review; wish I could have been there! USA

  • ntabassum92 says:

    This fair seems really cool!!! I love that so many Exhibitors are included, especially that there are so many perfumers exhibited that I have never heard of. Excited to see a lot of American perfumers, I really like to support our “local” businesses. I am from VA, USA. I loved the part about the “bare bones” exhibit 😉

  • Congrats to all the finalists and winners! Fragrance is definitely heading in the right direction, specifically American perfumery. I will surely go to the scent fair in the future. Thank you for this wonderful draw and I’m in Canada.

  • Wayne Hollander says:

    Good Lord – where to begin?
    That sounds incredible, and maybe a little overwhelming. I am so glad my investigation into fragrance has brought me here, to learn that perfume truly is an art inspired by and intertwined with so so much of the human experience. After following the blog for a few months, a few of the houses and names were familiar to me.
    Of particular interest to me:
    Cat Jones’ “Century’s Breath;” Charenton Macerations; Dead Writers; Imaginary Authors; “Sunset Blvd,” “La Peau Douce,” just to name a few.
    I’m also excited to investigate “A Queer History of Fashion and The Untapped Potential for Queer Fragrance,” which predates my discovery of Cafleurebon.
    And yes – congratulations on “Bat!” I actually own a nice big bottle :)))))
    Love from New York City!

  • Greennote says:

    What a huge numbers of participants. Thanks for the comprehensive virtual tour Ellen. I’m in Australia

  • What a fantastic way to see so many perfumers some I know and some I never heard of
    Dead writers , Jessica Hannah sunset boulevard, and DSH chroma sound fantastic
    Congratulations to Ellen Covey and to Victor
    Thank you Ellen for such a great article and foe Cafleurebon to continue to spotlight indies and artisans.
    The photos are great
    USA

  • Congratulations Ellen Covey and Victor Wong!! Way to go!!! It’s great to see so many perfumers, especially so many indie and artisan. I’m impressed by the number of Europeans who attended the event. This was a great article and thanks for sharing with us. It’s one more event that I wish I could have attended. I live in the US and thanks for the draw! 🙂

  • Many amazing fragrances here, congrats to all the winners.

    I love seeing the experimentally unique direction independent fragrances are heading lately. Bat! Eau Celeri! A perfume inspired by Hawaiian owls! Glorious.

    I’m in the USA, thanks for hosting this intriguing information about independent perfumers and for the generous sample drawing.

  • Excellent brief review of the olfactory artists selected to represent the industry @ AIX this year! I actually came to Hammer both Saturday & Sunday, and most definitely, even knowing quite a few perfumers, some in person, I wasn’t able to experience all of the generous offerings.
    The event was absolutely unique, first in its kinds, on many levels. One of the most important and significant achievement – demystify the niche, open the access & line of communication to all, regardless of level of knowledge and perfume world involvement.
    A true break-through – LA community has been really coming together with those efforts, along with the other passionate & dedicated professional from the country, as well as from the overseas.
    Cannot wait to witness more advances in the world of indie perfumes & participate in the sensual awareness movement!

  • So many awesome niche and indie brands to discover. Great article. I live in Europe. Thanks for the draw!

  • So many interesting brands! I love the idea of smelling the raw perfume materials and trying to identify them in different perfumes. I am in the US, thank you!

  • I wish I’d been able to make it there last weekend, but I had too many family obligations. The project devised by Olympic Orchids and Sonoma Scent Studio, with the opportunity to sniff raw materials and then see how they’re used by different perfumers, sounded particularly fun, and I’d have liked to experience Scents of the Apocalypse, too. I’m in the US, if I’m not too late for the drawing,

  • Diana Devlin says:

    What a magnificent event! I have never been to a perfume expo/fair. So many fragrance houses I’ve never heard of that I’d love to be introduced to. I love the notes from PK Perfumes Starry Starry Night.
    I live in the U.S.

  • AIX Scent Fair looked fabulous. Thank you for the tremendous photos and the comprehensive rundown on the works of so many stars in the fragrance world. Dawn Spencer Hurwitz looked perfectly in sync with her Chroma project. I love that sweater paired with yellow trousers.

  • echinacea says:

    Wow!Neandertal Perfume, this is something I would love to try! Sounds like nothing I have known before!
    I live in the EU.

  • “Scents of the Apocalypse was a collaborative exhibit by Artist Lindsay Tunkl, who offered 10-minute “pre-apocalypse counseling” sessions and scent artist Daniel Krasofski, who formulated four “apocalyptic” scents: Asteroid Collision, Nuclear Blast, Tsunami, and Drought. The goal of the project was to “examine humanity’s emotional connection to the probable or improbable apocalypse”.

    “Pre-apocalypse counselling session” made me soo jealous about not being there. Love the idea of finding beauty in natural phenomena like tsunami, which scare us and are so powerful.
    Thank you so much for the event review! I’m from the Eu.

  • Miss Almond says:

    What a great event! Pity it is so far form me. I cannot be thankful enough for such a wonderful, lively description. Would love to sniff Sunset Blvd and many others. EU.

  • This sounded like a wonderful event! Great photos and descriptions of the fragrances. Made me feel like I was there as well! Very talented perfumers, that I hope to obtain some of their fragrances.

    I’m a Canadian reader and thanks for the draw!

  • Woa that would’ve been an amazing event to attend so many different fragrances to try,would really like to see how far these natural botanicals have come and these toxin free vegan frags.And congrats to victor wong good to see a canadian up there get some recognition .Thanks for giveaway ,im in Canada .