When you like perfumed candles*, now we have simply the exhibition for you – Parfums d’Orient (Perfumes of the Orient) on the Institute of the Arab World, very near our inns.
You’ll find out how fragrances have at all times been a vital a part of Arab tradition, by a go to punctuated by a variety of new scents screated specifically by fragrance creator Christopher Sheldrake.
* Everybody likes perfumed candles
The Institute of the Arab World has an exhibition of a unique sort to give you for the following 5 months – fragrance explored and defined by 200 reveals – work, textiles, manuscripts, installations, pictures, vidéos…
The exhibition presents not solely the essential constructing blocks of perfumes, giving the historical past of ambergris, myrrh and musk, but in addition explains the place of fragrance in Arab society, and the significance of fragrances, oils and balms in on a regular basis life.
You’ll uncover the a number of makes use of of fragrance in public areas, the significance of the situation of the fragrance quarter (on the centre of the souk, very near the primary mosqu) and the way fragrance was utilized in Arab-Muslim homes, for instance to encourage poetry with it’s supposedly aphrodisiac vertues.
All through the go to you’ll encounter fragrance stations designed by the Magique creation studio, that includes new fragrances from fragrance creator Christopher Sheldrake.
A powerful programme of occasions has been organised all through the exhibition, along with the standard guided visits:
— workshops in regards to the shut hyperlink between style and odor, and one other about glass and bottle creation,
— a masterclass about leather-based on 18th November at 3.30pm,
— La Roseraie de Leila et autres contes parfumés, a story for teenagers on twenty first October at 3pm,
— a convention Les odeurs qui guérissent (odours that heal) on eighth October at 3pm with a researcher from the CNRS (the French Nationwide Centre for Scientific Analysis) and a fragrance creator with experience in aromatherapy (a part of the annual Science Competition),
The whole listing of occasions on supply will be discovered right here, and there are much more coming in January 2024 (quickly to be introduced) – an ‘olfactory cabaret’, music, podcasts…
A listing of the exhibition can be out there (224 pages) right here at your native Amazon for round 32€.
The exhibition Parfums d’Orient (Perfumes of the Orient) is on the Institute of the Arab World (right here) till seventeenth March 2024
Open day by day besides Mondays from 10am-6pm (7pm weekends and public holidays). Late night time opening the primary Wednesday of each month till 9.30pm
Admission: 13€ / 11€ (tickets right here)
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To learn the English press launch for the exhibition, merely click on the ‘fullscreen’ button on the backside proper of the picture under.
