An Olfactory Stroll around the World

Objectives

Discover the world of scents by embarking on a voyage of initiation to perfumes from all over the world Discover differences in the perception of smells, conditioned by one’s nationality and culture

Proceedings

The perfumer delivers a lecture and makes participants associate smells and countries They individually fill out their booklet, and the whole exercise is then corrected

Program

• Explanations of the physiology of smell
• Initiation to the perfumer’s vocabulary
• Olfactory round-the-world voyage
• Corrections

Logistics

This animation is perfect before or after dinner, when participants are seated around one or more round tables The animation can also be projected on a screen

Possible variation

Olfactory stroll in one country, around perfumes, around an olfactory family (fruits, spices, aromatics, flowers etc…)