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Twenty Parts Per Thousand: Designing with smell

Twenty Thousand Hertz

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Perfume Is an Extraordinary Medium

A work of perfume brings together a collection of elements to create art for your nose. Chandler: Synthetics give you a control over the medium. He can take a single scent and give it the same amount of background and analysis as a painting in the Louvre. There is a work by two extraordinary olfactory artists named Christine Nagell and Francise Pergeong called Baffaas. It takes the romanticism of the 1800s and transports it to the 21st century, he says.

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