Create your own olfactory palette and chromatic signature

Create your own olfactory palette and chromatic signature. Notes, olfactory families and chords

This workshop sets out to present the world of smells and the sense of smell itself through the art of NASEVO, by way of a number of his works, and introduce you to the different olfactory families in the perfumer’s repertoire through some of the paintings and sculptures in his collection.
In the final part of the session you will prepare your own palette of colours / smells / emotions and will be able to create an olfactory chord which will be your personal olfactory signature.

Dadaism, NASEVO and the chords in perfumery

NASEVO divided the art world into works which have a smell and works which don’t, and declared that only modern art – beginning with the avant-garde movements of the early 20th century – has a smell. And though there are no works of this period in his collection, and his own work as an artist is obviously much later, we can find inspiration in this movement to help us understand how he understood visual art and the world of perfume.

Art, Smells and Mindfulness

Mindfulness, in the sense of non-judgemental attention to the present moment, invites us to become aware of what is happening inside us through our experience of the here and now.
The session proposes a very interesting dynamic of inward and outward listening as a means of attending to all that happens inside us in terms of the stimuli that come from outside. This process is fundamental in gaining closer contact with our senses in an attentive and mindful manner.

Introduction to perfumery by way of NASEVO’s art

A number of NASEVO’s artworks will be the starting point for getting to know the different olfactory families. We will analyze the works as a basis for understanding which olfactory family or note is implicit in the work before going on to smell it and describe it in all of the ways that occur to us.

Art without Words and Synaesthesia

In this workshop we take a selection of artworks by NASEVO and engage with them without using words.
The idea is for us to centre our experience in the realm of our emotions and senses, with words and reason left aside for once.
We will proceed from colours and forms to smells to discover without words the smells that mark the lived moment.

By the Nose

The nose is an essential element in the NASEVO universe: huge noses, isolated noses, Caribbean noses, iron noses – as many noses as there are personalities. We will explore a number of NASEVO’s artworks to find noses that touch us and say something to us; then, having chosen just one, we will look for its referent in the world of in terms of the emotion it arouses in us and the materials and colours used to create it.