Grain de musc: Berlin with Christophe Laudamiel by Team Eat Love Savor
When Christophe Laudamiel sent me an invitation to see his most recent exhibition at the Mianki Gallery in Berlin, I figured I might as well poke my nose into it. To my knowledge, he is the only formally-trained perfumer to be represented by art galleries (Dillon in New York and Mianki in Berlin).
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Memory: Witness of the Unimaginable by Kendall Square Association
Memory is a stunning sensory art experience created by music composer Dániel Péter Biró and master perfumer Christophe Laudamiel, working with Le Laboratoire founder David Edwards and Rachel Field, creators of the new oPlatform, and designers Baptise Viala, Laurent Milon, and Charlie Zehnlé (studio Millimètre), involving multiple “rituals” of scent and sound.
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Berlin Catches a Whiff of Olfactory Art Scent-Sation
Berlin is known as a hotspot for edgy creativity - from contemporary art to street art and sound art. Now scent art is making a splash in the German capital, from the gallery to the cinema. "It's something intangible, something invisible, and something you cannot control. I cannot put the scent on a leash," says perfumer and artist Christophe Laudamiel. But, as it turns out, he can put scent in a gallery.
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Haute Couture of Flower Creations: Interview with Olivier Giugni by Team Eat Love Savor
L’Olivier Floral Atelier creates one-of-a-kind arrangements that adorn the homes and work places of celebrities and A-list New Yorkers from the worlds of fashion, finance and fine arts. Olivier partnered with French master perfumer Christophe Laudamiel in 2013 to create an environmentally sustainable, eco-friendly Bougie Parfumee collection with the debut of his first scented candle Vert de Vert, and again in November 2014 to craft Cuir Vegetal.
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Reflexive Perfumery: A Virtual Tour with Christophe Laudamiel by Deadidol
On January 21, The Academy of Perfumery and Aromatics, The Goethe-Institut, and The Institute for Art and Olfaction, collaborated to host an evening of bygone perfumery curated by Christophe Laudamiel. The event, which drew an estimable crowd of perfumers, writers, aficionados, and newcomers alike, offered a privileged glimpse into the Osmothèque—the official archive of perfumery based in Versailles, France.
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Christophe Laudamiel Frames Fragrance and Sells Scent in Berlin by Susan Stone
Master perfumer Christophe Laudamiel has created hits in a bottle for Estée Lauder and Burberry, conjured up ambient atmospheres for Belstaff and Ferrari, and directed a scent opera at the Guggenheim Museum. His next incarnation? As a regular on Berlin’s gallery scene. “Art is about provocation,” he said. “Provocation makes people think about a difficult problem. The fragrance industry never does that — it’s not their thing.” Laudamiel, who also shows at New York’s Dillon Gallery, has forged an ongoing partnership with Mianki Gallery owner Andreas Herrmann.
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"Perfume: The Story of a Murderer" to Reshow with a Newly Created Scent Track by Laurie Pike
“People are usually afraid that a scent track will distract from the film,” says Laudamiel, who has since created award-winning fragrances for Tommy Hilfiger, Ralph Lauren and Abercrombie & Fitch. “But Tom [Tykwer] understood it would enhance it. After all, scent is 3D in your mind. It is the only sense of the main three that has not been exploited [in cinemas]." His start-up, DreamAir, is a lab for exploring such unconventional uses for fragrance.
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Smelly Davos Unveils New World Odor by Barry Neild
With troubled markets threatening to leave an unpleasant stink over proceedings, this year's Davos summit has enlisted the help of a perfumer to ensure gathered world leaders and business chiefs don't turn up their noses. Christophe Laudamiel, a scientist who stirs up scent cocktails for New York-based International Flavors and Fragrances has spent the past six months developing a range of odors he hopes will help delegates tackle the financial meltdown.
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Art of the Invisible by Julie Ralphs
Christophe Laudamiel is an award-winning visionary. A renowned master perfumer, olfactory artist and trained chemist, who has authored countless fragrances for high-profile prestige brands including Tom Ford, Burberry, Ralph Lauren, Michael Kors, Harvey Nichols, etc. President and Co-Founder of DreamAir L.L.C., Laudamiel has created ambient scents for high-end hotels, retail shops, clubs and private spaces. Often working in tandem with colleague Christoph Hornetz, they are known as “Les Christophes”.
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Smellbound by Chandler Burr
Today, Laudamiel works for the giant fragrance corporation I.F.F. (International Flavors and Fragrances); I.F.F.’s perfumers are responsible for the scents for many of the world’s luxury brands. Widely regarded as a great nose in the making, Laudamiel has made perfumes for Hilfiger, Aramis and Slatkin & Company, among others. For several years he has also been working on a side project.
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Cordis Hotel Brand to Make Debut with Chinese Art, Signature Fragrance by Danny King
Langham Hospitality Group’s new Cordis lifestyle brand will make its debut when the Langham Place Mongkok Hong Kong is reflagged on Aug. 26. The 664-room Cordis Hong Kong will display more than 1,500 pieces of Chinese art on the walls and in public spaces. Langham said the art collection is worth $4.5 million. A renovated 36th floor club lounge offers views of the city. The four restaurants include the Michelin-starred Ming Court and Alibi, a shared-plate restaurant and bar. Perfumer Christophe Laudamiel designed an ambient fragrance, Sparkling Mint, for the new brand.
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Making Perfect Scents by The Boston Globe staff
"I have colleagues and clients who tell me I shouldn't be doing this," says Christophe Laudamiel to the standing-room -only audience at Harvard. "People are scared. The whole industry is scared." Laudamiel, a renowned perfumer who has created scents for Tom Ford, Ralph Lauren, Abercrombie & Fitch, and Estée Lauder, is clearly enjoying this bit of rabble-rousing. Last week at Harvard, the university where he worked as a teaching assistant in the early 1990s, he lectured to architecture students about scent. But he was also here as part of his own mission, which is to break down what he sees as the perfume industry's perpetuation of "secrecy and mysticism."
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