Arts
This episode is all about the art world of smells. Yup, perfume. Josh Smith of Libertine Fragrance has been making scents for five years, since he made a perfume for a design school project. He tells us about the weird world of perfumes, the existence of scent reviewers (with YouTube channels! What!) and about his first career in forestry - it’s rad to hear designers and makers come from all sorts of places. We’ll hear about how perfume school is a thing, about making scents in Edmonton, the inspiration behind Josh’s perfumes (and a little history lesson on 19th century France), and making friends through smells. Josh tells us how perfume is a really good way to look at issues around sustainability and climate change, why we might all smell differently in the future, and where the idea of perfuming came from.