For the past couple of years, a three-page document has been taped to the inside of my medicine cabinet door. It isn’t beautiful. It wasn’t intended for anyone but me. Take a look. It’s filled with hearts, circles, little arrows, moods, reminders, and abbreviations that probably make sense only because I wrote them. There are […]
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Independent Peer Review
“Naming is not the beginning of observation.Naming is the reward for observation.”— Chad By this point in the fragrance project, I thought I had developed a reasonably consistent evaluation process. Apply fragrance. Take notes. Observe the opening, the heart, the drydown. Ask the two questions that I had thought would be the framework for this […]
Cataloging Scents, Cataloging Selves – Motion
Part 4: Motion By the fourth pair of fragrances, I thought I understood where this project was going. First, fragrances became places. Then they became people. Apparently, I assumed that was enough. It wasn’t. The next discovery wasn’t about where a fragrance took me. Or who I met there. It was about what happened next. […]