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SYNTHESIZE THE SMELL OF ROSE

2023 @ KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA
Olfactory Design Lab

Olfactory Design Lab is a collaboration between FabCafe KL and Scent Artist Maki Ueda, with the general goal to research and consider the sense of smell as a medium for communication. Up until recently, design research, including user experience, has always been heavily focused on the sense of vision. However, as digital trends continue to grow in increasingly creative ways, other bodily senses, such as smell and touch, have become key interest areas for those keen to engage with users in a more material and embodied sense.

Maki Ueda now holds over a decade of teaching and exhibiting experience based on the topic of smell and art. Since 2009, she has held a teaching position at the Royal University of the Netherlands, conducting the world’s first and only “olfactory art” course. In this workshop, we breaking down the scent of a rose and then re-constructing our own rose scent!

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OLFACTOSCAPE VER. 3

– Deconstructing a Rose –

installation (2019)
DATE: 12.10.2019. – 08.12.2019.
VENUE: Kiyosu City Haruhi Art Museum (premier) http://www.museum-kiyosu.jp/ 
CONTEXT: Olfactory Labyrinth Exhibition (solo exhibition)
CURATOR: Nana FUJIMOTO
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OLFACTOSCAPE is a series of works researching scent-driven space exploration with the focus on how scents mix in the air. How do fragrances travel in space, how do they mix, what can we distinguish and what not?



[Experience]


A cylindrically shaped space is made to create a distinct space, safe enough to close your eyes and focus on smelling. As you walk along the circular curtain, new scents appears one by one:



  1. Phenyl Ethyl Alcohol
  2. Linalool

  3. Citronelllol
  4. Geranyl Acetate
  5. 
Damascone Beta
  6. Eugenol
  7. Rose Oxide
  8. 
Aldehyde C9
Scannable の文書 (2019-11-29 14_49_32)



The scent of the rose flower consists of hundreds of chemical components. The eight components above are the most relevant ones. When you stand in the middle, what you smell is the mixture of them: the scent of rose flower. When moving closer to the curtain you “zoom in” to the individual components.



In comparison to music, the single scent is like “note” and the total scent is like “harmony”.


[Story]


The work prior to this work is “DECONSTRUCTING CHANEL NO.5”, with a prototype to proof the concept in 2012. This work is hardly shown public because of trademark issues.  



This new work, “DECONSTRUCTING A ROSE”, inherits the same principle of that work. I chose the scent of rose as a theme, because it’s universal, being loved in any culture beyond gender and generation. The scent of rose is the perfect concept for education, because there are a lot of different versions of this scent on the market.

[Technical Prouction]


The fact that scents mix in the air makes it difficult for us to control them in olfactory art. However, it is this behavior that became a challenge for me and an important inspiration for making my work.



The level of intensity and the speed of vaporizing are controlled by calibrating the solvent for each scent.  For example, Aldehyde C9 is long lasting, so I diluted it and used a vapor-accelerating solvent.