Macys Food & Fragrance Events
Macys will hold a series of Food & Fragrance events with James Beard-award winning pastry chef Johnny Iuzzini of Restaurant Jean Georges: Through in-store chef demonstrations, Chef Iuzzini will...
View ArticleChicago Scent Me ~ a perfume shopping event
Basenotes forum member "Quarry" is organizing an informal get-together of Basenotes members at Chicago's new L'Artisan boutique. The event will be on May 26, and you can read more here; the deadline to...
View ArticleEstee Lauder Ascent Event ~ Nordstrom in Chicago
Estee Lauder will hold an “Ascent Event” with fragrance experts Catherine Barber (shown) and Trudi Loren at Nordstrom Michigan Avenue in Chicago on November 8th and 9th. A Personalized Fragrance...
View ArticleChi-cocoa Scentsation ~ this fall in Chicago
A group of volunteers over at Perfume Posse is pulling together a Chicago shopping trip scheduled for Saturday, September 13th: Join us in Chicago this fall for an incredible, decadent day of...
View ArticleSnippets: Chicago's smellscape, anosmia
Chicago has always been self-consciously aware of its aroma. Blame it on the fact that the city takes its name from the "shikaakwa," a native, onion-scented wild leek. The odor of that particular skunk...
View ArticleChandler Burr talk at Chicago Humanities Festival
Chandler Burr will give a presentation on The Art History Of Scent: 1889 – 2011 as part of the Chicago Humanities Festival: Burr uses his rich historical, cultural, scientific, and economic knowledge...
View ArticleScented issue of Poetry magazine & Volatile! exhibit
The Poetry Foundation’s Poetry magazine will be sending a scented edition to subscribers this December, and will be opening the scent exhibit Volatile! at their Gallery in Chicago this December… Read...
View ArticleA fragrance that will forever haunt my dreams
If there were a “bad decisions” scented candle, it would smell exactly like Wrigleyville did when I left the ballpark about 45 minutes after Monday night’s game ended. The general scent was that of...
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