8 Iconic Perfumes

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Taught by Jessica Murphy

Jessica Murphy is an art historian and museum professional with a longtime passion for perfume. She's been a contributor at the blog Now Smell This since 2007, and since 2015 she's been giving presentations about the cultural history of fragrance via the Institute for Art and Olfaction, the Brooklyn Museum, the Corning Museum of Glass, and other venues. Her writing about scent has appeared in Atlas Obscura and Viscose Journal and she's been interviewed by Vogue, The New York Times, Bloomberg Businessweek, Harper’s Bazaar, Decoder Ring, and other media outlets. She shares her thoughts on olfactory and visual topics at her Substack, Show & Smell.

 
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Some perfumes are classics: they stand the test of time and they influence perfumes that come after them.

In this illustrated lecture, we'll learn about the styles and stories behind eight iconic feminine fragrances. We'll also sniff those eight classic scents together and discuss our own impressions of them.

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