Classes for Beginners

Perfumery-focused classes geared towards those with technical proficiency in perfume-making, presented by The Institute for Art and Olfaction. Online or in-person.

These scent and perfumery-related talks and classes can be taken at will, for all levels of engagement or practice, presented by The Institute for Art and Olfaction. Online or in-person.

Join us for hands-on perfume blending! Learn principles of scent making and take home a small spray vial of your own creation.

Join us in person at The Institute for Art and Olfaction for hands- and noses-on workshops, gallery openings, and more!

Join the IAO team for noses-on smelling sessions of aromatic materials, fine fragrances, and more! Inn person at the Institute for Art and Olfaction.

Learn how to assemble perfume accords and gain a greater adeptness at blending and a well-trained nose. Perfumer Ashley Eden Kessler leads workshops reconstructing important scents for use in fine fragrance. Online only.

Olfactory Research Notes is a lecture series highlighting olfaction research, directly from those who do it. Olfactory Provocations series presents new, original, and thought-provoking perspectives in short format lectures.

Classes focused on developing technical perfume-making skills.

Dana El Masri explores the history of fine fragrance through a series of classes that cover the genealogy of scent. Each class in this series explores important perfumes in 20th/21st perfumery from the perspective of the materials that inform them.