This is a list I put together in 2015 and it needs updating. But it might include some unknowns worth discovering for the lay person interested in the intersection of scent and art…
Sensorial Mapping
Jason Logan’s smell map of NYC
On Looking: Eleven Walks with Expert Eyes, by Alexandra Horowitz (see chapter “A Dog’s-Nose View”), and interview on Slate.
Art / Scent
“Belle Haleine – The scent of art,” at Museum Tinguely
Josely Carvalho, installations and smell tours
Sissel Tolaas, Interview; Talking Nose, Mexico City; Scents of Berlin (with Geza Schoen)
The Smelling Committee at the Conflux Festival 2006
A Whiff of Revolution: New York artist Lisa Kirk bottles the smell of war
Nadia Wagner, installation and Notes on Scent
“You Are Here” at Pratt Institute, including Scratch ‘N Sniff NYC by Nicola Twilley
The Institute for Art and Olfaction
Headspace (symposium): On Scent as Design
Museum of Art and Design exhibit, “The Art of Scent”
Everything, by Lernert and Sander
Scent-Related Research and Articles
University of Florida researchers use ‘peanut butter’ test to help diagnose Alzheimer’s disease and why you shouldn’t do the test at home.
Sense of Smell Project at the University of Avans
Givaudan and JWT develop “Smell Memory Kits” to help Alzheimer’s patients
Fragrant Cities – Relationships between smell and urban environments. Research by Victoria Henshaw, at the University of Manchester.
Study Uncovers Memory Aid: A Scent During Sleep – New York Times
Olfactory Stimuli May Affect Dreams
Essays from the Concordia University Sensoria Research Team (CONSERT)
Vosshall Lab of Neurogenetics and Behavior at The Rockefeller University
Articles about smell and memory, at The Fragrance Foundation
National Geographic Odor Study
Scientific America blog post on human and dog smell
The Impact of Natural Odors on Affective States in Humans
Effects of Fragrance on Emotions: Moods and Physiology
Quantum smell idea gains ground
Other Items of Interest
How Two Perfumers Brought Valentino’s “Mirabilia Romae” Exhibition to Life Through Scent
Axes of Evil. What happens when a grown woman wears Axe fragrance for an entire week?
Janine Antoni “Slumber”, Gnaw, and Interview in Bomb Magazine
Carsten Höller’s Revolving Hotel Room
NY Magazine
Travel and Leisure
Lady Gaga “Fame” perfume launch event
NASA Unveils Chemical-Sniffing Device for the iPhone
Cognitive Atlas. A collaborative knowledge building project around the state of current thought in cognitive science.
In Defense of the Artist Statement
Books
University of Illinois book series on Studies in Sensory History
The Smell Culture Reader, Jim Drobnick
Odor Sensation and Memory, Trygg Engen
The Scent of Desire: Discovering Our Enigmatic Sense of Smell, Rachel Herz
The Perfect Scent: A Year Inside the Perfume Industry in Paris and New York, Chandler Burr
The Emperor of Scent, Chandler Burr
Essence and Alchemy: A Natural History of Perfume, Mandy Aftel
The Secret of Scent: Adventures in Perfume and the Science of Smell, Luca Turin
The Fragrant Past: Perfumes of Cleopatra and Julius Caesar, Giuseppe Donato and Monique Seefried
Perfume and Flavor Materials of Natural Origin, Steffen Arctander
Reading list on the culture of smell, at Scented Pages
