Continuing to design the smellscape of Japan, today we are going to explore Japan\'s natural sources. if you missed the previous articles click on the link for JAPAN I, JAPAN II BAMBOO - TAKE Bamboo is deeply rooted in the Japanese...

DEdicated to Masahiro Kamiya, my dearest friend from Japan! One can find many ways of experiencing a new country. To me, intimate sensing is crucial to the experience. Through smells I found a way to deepen the experiences of my travels and...

In 2014 I published an essay of articles on urban smells dedicated to Victoria Hensaw - the Queen of Smellscapes (or olfactive maps).That article evolved one entire theory that we are loosing the sense of the smell of our "home" due to...

Mais uma vez em parceria com a Revista atualidade Cosmética, participei de uma entrevista sobre o mercado da perfumaria de nicho. É muito gratificante poder dividir meus conhecimentos com pessoas da indústria de fragrâncias e ser reconhecida...

"The desert is unpredictable, enigmatic. One minute you will be smelling dust. The next, the desert can smell just like the rain." (Gary Nabham - The Desert Smells Like the Rain) Continuing the journey where you can see a...

"We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world beyond the horizon" - Franklin D. Roosevelt Last week I took a quick trip down to the beach. I spent my day...

2016 HOLIDAY PICKS! Six years ago I wrote about what I called the Mary Poppins/Nanny Mc Fee scents (Click here to read it) meaning fragrances that bring comfort to the soul in cold, rainy, gray days or to weird phases in life when...