Orchadia

13/06/2018

https://www.perfume-training.com/Docs/Banana_Snippet.pdf

We think you'll love this! A simple fragrance experiment that you can do at home

07/06/2018

https://www.orchadia.org/Inside_Perfume.html

We have added a new downloads page to our website! The page has links to free downloadable content included articles, presentations and this Inside Perfume Infographic poster.

The poster provides an overview of how perfumes are created, what they are made of and common ingredient production methods.

16/12/2016

16/12/2016

This Christmas we have been asking ‘What would Santa smell like?’. We received some truly fascinating responses from around the globe, so we wrote an article about it!

Please let us know what you think he would smell like.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/what-would-santa-smell-like-penny-williams?trk=hb_ntf_MEGAPHONE_ARTICLE_POST

Imagine, what would Santa smell like? Brilliant insights from people across the world, psychology, food, drink, relationships, stories. Imagine, what would Santa smell like? A question

24/12/2015

Merry Christmas from everyone at Orchadia!

13/12/2015

"...in a 21st Century overloaded with auditory and visual input, artists are beginning to tap into smell as a platform."
Scented Intoxication
Australian Design Centre
Until 18 December 2015

http://ow.ly/VIyDV

In a world of visual and auditory overload, scent is an unexplored platform for artists to feed sensual experience.

11/12/2015

Did you know that we all perceive odours in a slightly unique way? Not only do we have a unique set of odour receptors, but chemistry happens in the nose, too. Enzymes interact with odour molecules and modify them:
"Chemistry occurs in the nasal mucus because enzymes capable of modifying the odorant structures are present. These enzymes protect the receptors against injury by toxic odorants" http://ow.ly/VBReo

New research couldn't find evidence for a controversial theory of how our sense of smell works.

10/11/2015

"Every sense has its own “lexical field,” a vast palette of dedicated descriptive words for colors, sounds, tastes, and textures. But smell? In English, there are only three dedicated smell words—stinky, fragrant, and musty—and the first two are more about the smeller's subjective experience than about the smelly thing itself." http://ow.ly/Up9AJ

And why do these two hunter-gatherer groups have so many?

30/10/2015

The Perfume Shop Masters programme is an intensive and immersive training course aimed to elevate the top performers at TPS to even more dizzying heights. Participants complete the TIPA Advanced Perfume Training course and have a perfume lab experience with Orchadia Solutions as part of the programme.

This year, teams from The Perfume Shop first competed for the best perfume brief, after which the winning team’s fragrance concept was sketched out by our Creative Perfumer Penny Williams. We then invited the Perfume Shop Masters to our perfume lab to experiment with the scent and used their input to complete the perfume. http://ow.ly/TWxad

The Perfume Shop Masters programme is an intensive and immersive training course aimed to elevate the top performers at TPS to even more dizzying...

29/10/2015

Our perfume organ is now up at the new lab... Phew!