DAY 5: developing works

Public Presentation "How to Confuse Your Senses", a course on olfactory art

* time changed! (from 16:30 instead of 13:00)

Public presentation of

"How to Confuse Your Senses", a course on olfactory art

Students of the course "How to Confuse Your Senses" will invite you to the world of confusions by means of smell with various olfactory games. Please come and play with the smells!

Date & Time: 

Thu, Oct 15 2015, from 16:30-

Location: 

PB301 (Faculty Art Science)

KABK: Royal Academy of Art, The Hague (NL)

Prinsessegracht 4, 2514 AN Den Haag

DAY 4: perfumery WS

Perfumery WS

Students created 3 bottles of perfume with 3 to 5 ingredients.

And.. trying out the incense from the DAY 3

[Combustible incense]
Mint: disgusting
Paracetamol: disgusting... leaving bitter taste on the tongue
Sugar: caramel like
Cinnamon: spicy and sweet, very fragrant
Licorice: smells burnt

[Non-combustible incense]
Mint and cinnamon: cinnamon does not appear but mint well
Paracetamol: just smells like ume paste
Licorice: sweet, deep, hey-like, and fragrant

DAY 3: incense making WS (combustible & non-combustible)

Incense making WS

Combustible incense

- Roasted peanuts

- Star anis

- Sugar

- Paracetamol

- Mint

- Cinnamon

- Basil

- Lycorice

Non combustible incense

- Paracetamol

- Mint / cinnamon

- Sugar

- Lycorice

DAY 2 : extraction WS, discussions

Exraction workshops:

Beer

Grass

Dried Oak Leaves

Magic Mushrooms

Akhorns

Aloe Vera

Chestnuts

Paracetamol - distillation

Performing for the blindfolded:

some Japanese inspirations:

Japanese red-light district of the past

- incense that measures time

- incense balls that could roll freely in futon

- incense pillow

- incense for the genital area and hair

Contemporary plays

- Wakame-sake, the sake with the fragrance of genital hair infused

- Nyotai-mori

- Panties sold for 50 - 80 EUR with photos

- How to preserve these panties

- An alpinist that makes the final judgement by smelling the can of "geisha"