News
Six Perfumes That Capture the Met Museum’s Essence
The new fragrances are compatible with in-room diffusers, so you can now refer to your living room as the Egyptian Gallery.
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News
What Did Cleopatra Smell Like?
Researchers are using chemical analysis to concoct the fragrance possibly worn by the last Egyptian pharaoh.
Opinion
An Exhibition That Lets You Smell and Taste the Beauty in the Paintings
Bagh-e Hind began with the question: Is it possible to recontextualize historical South Asian paintings and objects through lyrical, olfactory interpretations?
Opinion
Why Dior's Appropriation of Native Identity to Sell Perfume Miserably Backfired
Footage from the perfume's release party also featured white people dressed in sacred war bonnets dancing around tipis and belting out war whoops as spectators sipped champagne.
Art
In 1902, Audiences Turned Up Their Noses at the First Perfume Concert
On a New York stage, a poet and art critic named Sadakichi Hartmann attempted the first perfume concert, and it was a disaster.
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Kazimir Malevich's Little-Known Perfume Bottle
Before artists are lionized, canonized, given major retrospectives at major museums, they are people. And when they are people, they are often poor, and so they must find ways to make money. Paul Gauguin tried his hand as a stockbroker, Henri Rousseau worked as a toll collector for most of his life,
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The Unpleasant Smell of Lost Opportunities, or How One Museum Show Became a Luxury Boutique
Camille Paglia, who famously polarized artists and intellectuals throughout the 1990s, is back. In her new book, Glittering Images, her mission is to bring closure to an era she feels is full of art-world stunts and isolating pretension, in exchange for a return to art-world appreciation among a gen
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Smells Like Art
Christophe Laudamiel is not a purist. “I love fabric softener,” asserts the world-renowned perfumer turned high art dissident. While he’s no snob about lowbrow smells, his exhibition Phantosmia - All But the Smell, which opened on Wednesday at the Dillon Gallery in Chelsea, is an olfactory treat. Ph