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International Themed Smell Day is July 11
Mark your calendar: July 11 is International Themed Smell Day and it is exactly the kind of occasion the field of olfactory storytelling deserves. The day was established by Liam R. Findlay, a leading themed attraction designer and scenting specialist, to celebrate...
Nosetalgia
Smell places you inside a memory. A single whiff and suddenly you are somewhere else entirely: a place, a person, a moment that you may have forgotten. This is what makes olfaction unlike any other sense. And it is why the concept of “nosetalgia” is so...
Using Smells in Museums Event (ONLINE)
California Time: 9:00am-12:30pm PDTLondon Time: 5:00pm-8:30pm BSTAmsterdam Time: 6:00pm-9:30pm CESTThis international online speaker series brings together curators, educators, and museum practitioners who are working with scent as an interpretive tool in museums,...
The Olfactory Contractor Monthly: May
Hello and Welcome, If you are new here—thank you for joining The Olfactory Contractor. I am so glad you have joined this growing community of museum professionals, educators, artists, and researchers interested in scent, storytelling, and a multisensory approach to...
Olfactory Distribution Design
When people think about scent in the museum, they often focus on the smell itself. What it is, where it comes from and what it means. But there is an entire layer of practice that sits between choosing a scent and a visitor actually experiencing it. This is what I...
A Conversation with Carl Philpott
Smell is the sense we take most for granted — until we lose it. In this episode of the Internet of Senses Institute Podcast, I sat down with Professor Carl Philpott, one of the UK's leading researchers in rhinology and olfaction, for a wide-ranging conversation about...
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