Smells Like Roses Workshops 2025
3 – hour workshop on synaesthesia and perfume
A smelling experience exploring the inner landscape of synaesthesia, perfume making and the electronic nose.
● Workshop 1 Sunday 10 – 1 pm…. 23 March
● Workshop 2 Sunday 10 – 1 pm…… 6 April
Location @ RSA Devonport 61 Victoria Road, Devonport, Auckland 0624
Over 18
Limit 20 participants
Price $50 all materials included
Supported by : Journey Through The Senses
Participants will be invited to a smelling experience exploring the inner landscape of synaesthetic experience. They will be guided into sensing and colour matching 16 perfumery materials which they will colour code and then mix into a rose solid perfume. The perfumes will be played by the electronic nose..
Workshop ‘Smells like Roses’, 3 hour workshop exploring synaesthesia through the power of synthetics and molecules created from petro chemicals to make intersensory illusions.
Perfume Workshop:
The characteristic scent of a rose is produced by a blend of almost 300 components none of which on its own smells like a rose.
Participants will be invited to a smelling experience exploring the inner landscape of synaesthetic experience. They will be guided into sensing and colour matching 16 perfumery materials which they will colour code and then mix into a rose solid perfume. The colour coding would result in a visual image similar in form to a large paint chart of 16 column and 20 rows.
Synaesthesia and Synthetic Rose perfume making workshops
According to the report from the National Academy of Sciences, 95% of chemicals used in synthetic fragrances are derived from fossil fuels, and include benzene derivatives, aldehydes, and toluene.
Observe: ( Noah Harari ) ‘now the breath is coming in, now the breath is going out” Observe
yourself for the duration of a single breath in and out and you will understand .
What does the fragrance tell you?
What do you know of the fragrance?
What do you know of the air?
