July 23, 2022 at 12:32 am

Sniff Training at the Institute for Art and Olfaction

by Matthew Gilligan

I guess there’s a school out there for pretty much everything, right?

And, believe it or not, there’s a place in Los Angeles called The Institute for Art and Olfaction where students

Watch the video above to get a behind-the-scenes look with Saskia Wilson-Brown, the Founder and Executive Director of the Institute.

She says, “My interest in scent is always from the perspective of creating access and there’s no reason why Los Angeles can’t be a source of inspiration as much as some beautiful jungle. The hardest smells are conceptual. an artist once asked to make the smell of “children screaming at midnight”. There’s not really a smell to that.”

And check out the 60 Second Docs page on YouTube for more short and interesting documentaries.

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