workshop:

Open Aroma Lab

with Rachel Barfield

15 Tem 2023

Come by at 12:00 or at 14:00 (12:00 till 14:00 or 14:00 till 16:00) for a two-hour blending session to create a bottle of your perfume. You will be able to experiment with blending scents from our organ of 250 scents, and at the end fill up a 5ml bottle of your own scent composition.

Tickets 

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Ana, Rachel and Fred in Aroma Lab - Smelling like another being! Here, our interns Ana (left) and Fred (right) with Rachel Barfield (middle) are smelling and combining some scents in the aromalab. Photo taken by Anna Valdivia in May 3rd, 2022. Andrea Valdivia

Blending step-by-step

We provide: a robust selection of natural and synthetic ingredients premixed in perfumer’s alcohol, beakers, droppers, scent strips, bottles and some light and friendly guidance in the process that you mainly do by yourself. You will be blending several trials in different cups and at the end you pick the one that you like best to fill your 5ml bottle with.

Information

Open Aroma Lab: Scent-making for all levels and interests
15th of July, 12:00-16:00
Tickets: €30 per session (including €1 administration costs)
Mediamatic Biotoop, Dijksgracht 6, Amsterdam


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Blending scents - Saskia Wilson-Brown

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Mixing, experimenting and smelling: A busy Open Aroma Lab - Filippo Iannone

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Open Aroma Lab participant trying out different blends to reach her desired scent - Filippo Iannone

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Workshop: Experimental Perfumery - Blackboard Saskia Wilson-Brown

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Open Aroma Lab participants sharing their scent experiments - Filippo Iannone

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Open sessions in the Aroma Lab - Saskia Wilson-Brown

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Blending scents during Open Session - Saskia Wilson-Brown

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Making your own perfume - Giulia Menicucci

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So many scents! - Maxim Damper

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Glass bottle with flowers -

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Scent Library in the Aroma Lab -

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Experimental Perfumery - Lab Tools Chiara Antoniacomi

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Perfumery explanation blackboard -

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Experimental Perfumery - Chiara Antoniacomi

With: Jiwei Zhou
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Materials for making perfume -

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Workshop: Experimental Perfumery - Chiara Antoniacomi

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Parfum maken van bloemen -

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Vials of essential oil in aroma lab -

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Mixing a Scent Bouquet in the Aroma Lab -

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Deelnemers selecteren materialen uit het geur-orgel - De workshops tijdens Art Olfaction Amsterdam werden gehouden in ons hernieuwde Aroma Lab met het meest uitgebreide geur-orgel van Nederland. Een geur orgel is een geordende verzameling aromatische materialen die een parfumeur gebruikt bij het maken van een parfum.  Anisa Xhomaqi