OSMOSCOPE Haryo Sedhono & Vera Talarek

A space in Los Angeles’s China Town. Fully dedicated to exploring and experimenting with scents: Sounds like a dream? It’s a dream come true. It’s the Institute for Art and Olfaction.

Come and meet Saskia Wilson-Brown, founder of this inspiring space that provides access to the world of scent to people around the globe.

If you’d like to find out what film and perfume have in common, why setting up the Art and Olfaction Awards involved filling hundreds of decants in Saskia’s kitchen and why literally creating access to materials and sharing information is at the heart of Saskia’s work, stay tuned.

This conversation was recorded in 2018 when we met Saskia in Amsterdam at her Mediamatic pop-up studio close to the railroads. You might even hear the train passing in the background. It was our first take on Osmoscope podcast - a conversation that has changed the way we look at scent. It might change yours, too.

In this third episode of Osmoscope, Vera talks to Klara Ravat, olfactory artist and experimental filmmaker, based in Berlin, originally from Barcelona.

Find out how an early fascination with macerating plants led Klara to distilling stranded goods from the canals of Amsterdam, why her free mind has helped her to create Out of the Blue, a personal fragrance she designed for Dutch denim label Hardeman, and how scents can help us to show more empathy towards one another.

You can learn more about Klara and her projects on www.klararavat.com

In this second episode of Osmoscope, Haryo meets Daniel Sonabend, London-based composer, music producer and sound designer who connects the world of music with the universe of olfaction.

If you’d like to find out how Daniel Sonabend translates scent into sound, and if you want to actually listen to the mesmerising sounds of vetiver or bergamot, stay tuned.

French perfumer Marie Le Febvre is the nose of URBAN SCENTS, a Berlin-based perfume house which she co-founded with her husband, Alexander Urban.

Discover how Marie set out to become a perfumer, how living in Berlin has influenced her way of perfume writing, and how her experience as a pilot inspires her to keep looking at things from a different angle.