The Art Of Scent – – Gulf News reports on a perfume-based art exhibition that has opened at The Dubai Mall, which explores fragrance as an art form.
– You’ll soon be asking Alexa to book you a massage at a hotel spa, as Marriott is starting to incorporate Amazon Echo into its hotel rooms, writes Engadget.
The Art Of Scent
– Online shoppers can now connect with in-store salespeople at Harvey Nichols via live video streaming and a messaging app, Digiday explains.
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– As contactless payments continue to grow, BBC News reports that debit card use has surpassed cash for the first time.
– Fluide is the newest “gender beauty brand,” says NYLON, and marks an increased focus on inclusion in the beauty industry.
– Viking Ocean Cruises’ newest ship has a “planetarium-like theater” and a resident astronomer on deck to take full advantage of the open skies. Via Conde Nast Traveler.
– A UK-based startup has created a pair of headphones that let you remix live concert audio in real-time for the ultimate audio experience, WIRED explains.
Q&a With Perfumer Dana El Masri
– The increased focus on wellness is affecting more than just adults, with a new study reporting that the use of alternative supplements – such as probiotics or digestive aids – has doubled among children and teenagers. Via ABC News.
– Instagram is launching IGTV, a longer-form video platform that aims to compete with YouTube and traditional TV and serve as a new avenue for creators to publish content, The Verge reports.
– An obstetrician/gynecologist has been working to create a wearable device that helps reduce sexual harassment on campus, according to Fast Company.
– Wealthy Asians have gotten richer faster than anyone else in the world, according to Bloomberg, while the region remains a “growth engine.”
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– Avocado lovers rejoice – The Guardian reports on an invisible coating that can double the shelf life of avocados and other fruits and vegetables.
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Led by Health, WPP is positioned as the primary network for AstraZeneca’s global oncology advertising, supporting innovative cancer care. Two women lean forward to literally take a whiff of the works in a show called “The Art of Fragrance, 1889-2012” at the Museum of Arts and Design in New York — proving to be one of New York’s most stimulating exhibitions in recent memory.
When I profiled the curator, Chandler Burr, I hinted at my misgivings about the models he used to proclaim the art of perfume and about his reading of selected works of art. However, now that the show is over, most of those doubts disappear. “The Art of Fragrance” is truly a purist immersion in the language of perfume – no fancy bottles, no advertising of luxury companies or their star clients, little to distract from the opportunity to just sniff. And it proves that fragrance is an art form with its own unique rules and dynamics.
Behind The Art: The Scent Of Flowers
First of all, there is no such thing as a quick “look” at a smell, as there is with a picture: it seems as if you are either really paying attention to it, or you are not. This means you’re more tempted to go back for more and recreate the experience than with a picture – perhaps because the details of the aroma fade so quickly from your mind and memory. Perhaps because most of us are so undertrained in fragrances, it seems there is still much left to learn about them: the very weight of the fragrance aesthetic makes them that much more appealing. There’s a whole language out there waiting to be mastered, and most of us don’t even know its alphabet. (I was delighted to discover an undertone of cotton candy in a perfume called “Angel” and a note of laundry soap in “Drakkar Noir”.)
For someone like me, who lives mostly in the visual arts, the show also teaches an important lesson: many people are probably almost as at sea with the language of fine art as I am with fragrance. It also cheers: There seems to be so much more to say in understanding this art form on its own terms—more, anyway, than the show’s wall texts say. Sorry, Chandler, but trying to draw parallels between realism and abstraction in painting and the same ideas in perfume does not elevate fragrances to art; it leaves them as if they were subordinate to an older, more familiar discipline. Smells can be discussed, I am convinced, as if people knew the world only through the nose. This show is so good because it’s so little like the others we know.