I am extraordinarily excited to be able to announce that Dawn Spencer Hurwitz, of DSH Perfumes, has created a bespoke one off fragrance for my talk – Scent: The Language Of Flowers – on March 25th at the Doris Duke Theater and the workshop on perfume appreciation on the 26th, ‘Scent Literacy’ at the Honolulu Museum Of Art, as part of the ongoing Cross Pollination exhibition.
A melliferous gardenia island breeze, with a hint of yuzu, I will have to wait until I get to Hawaii to smell it.
How very very exciting. What an absolute thrill! X
Thanks E. It really is.
My kind of 2023. x
What an honour Neil. No wonder that you are super excited.
So great to have a scent specifically for the event – it really makes it more special.
To be celebrated in a perfume
The most elegant fashion of procreation
Go thy pollen bedecked Hawaiian walk of fame dear Black Narcissus
Loved the pictures
I am sure the reality of the place will contain much more drab concrete and plastic furniture than I will like, but can’t WAIT to see and smell the vegetation!
D and I can’t quite believe that we will be doing all of this in a museum in Hawaii.
DSH is the bomb. Looking forward to reading more about your trip to fragrance paradise.
You KNOW I will be raving and speaking in tongues.
(while wearing a grass skirt, drowning in the leis)
⭐️This is the way
Honey drenched gardenia offset by yuzu, sounds fab!
I know! I can’t quite imagine it in my mind, but Dawn has said that the honey is more of the ‘breeze’ type than the sickly , so I am imagining something quite dreamy.
Amazing! How can you wait that long?
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We are still manically trying to get ready for it all so need the time right now, but HOW EXCITING to rock up to the exhibition space and find a perfume that has been especially designed for you and the art surrounding you.
Must be sublime!
Now that is quite something! Bravo!!
Btw, I haven’t ever smelled, seen or tested a Dawn Spencer Hurwitz scent; I somehow just read about them. I haven’t even been able to fathom how they are actually sold: via etsy? Are they sold? That’s bordering on bizarre and byzantine.
That photo of the moth is sublime! Imagine a tuxedo in those colours and textures: wow!
I would look terrible in such a creation, but I think it could be absolutely perfect. It almost ALREADY looks like a person in a tux.
As for DSH, she is a very prolific, sensitive creator – very inventive. Her Frida Kahlo series for example, was quite something. Very colourful, vivid. A bit like the moth.
Actually, I think you‘d look marvelous in such a tux. However as with perfumes: you don‘t want the clothes to wear you, rather the other way round.
Yes I am convinced DSH creations are quite something ; that‘s why I read about her perfumes all over the place, say in the lovely book by Sarah McCartney & Samantha Scriven! So much the more frustrating not to be able to part of the gang…
That is so beyond exciting. I can’t imagine how you can contain yourself until then.
Very cool. This is all so insanely exciting, N. Thrilled for you!
Terrifying!