scent
I Sold Culinary Crack to Michelin-Starred Chefs
Getting weird text message requests 24 hours a day and clearing out entire subway cars because of a stinky scent are the norm when you're slinging truffles. I've had to watch chefs inappropriately fondle my product so that I can offload something that...
I Took A Whiff Of New York's Most Endangered Scent
Artist Miriam Simun has created an immersive olfactory experience surrounding New York State's only federally-protected flower.
A Bottle of Wine Changed My Life
The bottle was ten years old and mind-boggling upon taste. It was a life-changing moment that influenced me to set out on a quest to understand more about wine. What has resulted is an entire career path and a lot of trips to Burgundy.
Smell Is a Challenge for Professional Chefs
As a cook, smell is quite problematic, because we spend most of our time thinking about flavor—not smell—combinations. But flavor is actually inseparable from smell, a motion that happens at the same time while we taste our food that we need to pay...
The Most Intimate Sense: Notes from a Fragrant Book Party
Master perfumer Mandy Aftel delighted us during the party for her new book, Fragrant: The Secret Life of Scent. “Scent is about luxury,” she says. “It’s tied to emotion and memory, to the irrational.”
With New Scent Messaging App, Your Food Photos May Never Be The Same
oSnap can send 300,000 possible scents. Brunch photos will be taken to a whole new level.
Meet the Artist Behind the BO-Scented Foldout in 'Harper's Bazaar'
If you subscribe to Harper’s Bazaar, and if you enjoy the perfume foldouts, then there is a good chance you’ve smelled the body odor of artist Martynka Wawrzyniak.
This is What Electronic Music Smells Like
Tim Hecker, Kode9 and Ben Frost have all written music, and helped create scents, for Unsound Festival's Ephemera project.
Scientists Just Divided the Sense of Smell Into 10 Types
Unlike colors of the rainbow or the five types of taste, until now the science of smell was too complex to categorize.
The Smell of a Boy's Anus: The Scented Oil
Smelling like vanilla is for cheap, teenage whores. Chanel attracts flies and starving artist types. You need something fresh. Something exciting. Something like anus!
Martynka Wawrzyniak Smells Like a 12-Year-Old Living on an Organic Farm
Tomorrow, artist Martynka Wawrzyniak will open her new show, “Smell Me,” in which she displays the results of her year-long project to collect and synthesize the aromatic elements that make up her personal stink, which, it turns out, smells pretty good.
Huffing Sweaty Love
If you can think of a better way to spend a Thursday night than huffing the dirty t-shirts of complete strangers and watching softcore porn, we'd like to hear it.