Scentennial: Two Iconic Perfumes of 1919

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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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This class will consider two fragrances released a hundred years ago: Guerlain Mitsouko and Caron Tabac Blond.

These French perfumes captured the imagination of women on both sides of the Atlantic and are still being produced today. Why were they so successful? What can they tell us about their era? In this multi-sensory presentation, we'll smell both fragrances and consider them as olfactory innovations, expressions of feminine identity, and reflections of their original cultural context.

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