maceration

Hi all! It's been a long time without updaiting. I am currently working in two olfactory projects at the time. One which I will keep in secret for a while and another one which will take place in september and also will make public when it's time for it. For now I'm training my self with some odorant extraction technics. I started with maceration. All the plants and flowers are growing in our garden!

Quick up-date

Such a long time without updating my research!

My current project, Petrichor, a odor-analogue film performance is taking quite some time to develop, but as the good wine, some time and rest will do it's magic, it's while the maturation process when it gets the most special flavors. So there I am!

For now, and this is quite a big step, I have manage to obtain some Geosmine odor, which means: I'm so close to the end smell I wanted to create!!

In the past months I've been busy filming the Tropaeolum majus I planted in our garden, here in Berlin. It has grown rapidly.

What interests me about this plant, is the reaction its leafs have to the rain, when it falls:

They seem to have a really resistant impermeable layer which reveals us the superficial tension water drops at it's peak!

Please have a look to this short clip, it's amazing how the tinny water drops get together.

New Research // Petrichor

Hallo!

It is time for me to start a new odor research. I thought it was a shame to create a new blog every time I start a new project so I'm going to pack my smell tasks all under "dailyodors". 

Dailyodors was the name I gave to the previous work which consisted in how odor affects our personal live, but in general terms what interests me the most is to research the ways how odor affects our visual perception. 

For the next project I am working on, I would like to extract odors from the 4th elements in the earth: air, water, fire and earth. 

Step by step, I will start with earth. Probably as many of you out there, I'm captivated by the smell of earth after the rain, also, not just earth, but how any pavement smells like at that moment. It seems this smell is a mixture of ozone, the spores of the bacteria actinomycetes and other vegetal components we might find in the soil. This smell has a beautiful name, many people called it Petrichor.

"Petrichor (/ˈpɛtrɨkɔər/) is the scent of rain on dry earth, or the scent of dust after rain. The word is constructed from Greek, petros, meaning stone + ichor, the fluid that flows in the veins of the gods in Greek mythology. It is defined as "the distinctive scent which accompanies the first rain after a long warm dry spell"".

Extracted from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrichor