An unusual perfume bar has sprung up at the Singapore Art Museum. It has scents nobody would want to dab on his wrist, although some might cling to his clothes.
Filipino artist Christina Goldie Poblador has created the smells of a city: Think whiffs of gasoline or rotten eggs, which is supposed to remind people of government. There are more pleasant fragrances too, which are associated with friendship and family.
—From Whiffs of memory as art at The Malaysian Insider.
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ehm. I actually love the smell of gasoline. Does that make me officially weird?
No, I think many people do.
I like the smell of gasoline too, although I try not to express my fondness so much.
Awww, thanks for posting this. It’s heart-warming to read about a young woman pursuing her passion and creating a work of art that’s inspired by her childhood memories.
Yes, it is!
I love the smell of gasoline as well. And I have a similar love for rubbing and smelling my tomato plants, the wonderfulness of fresh pine sap, and if it’s very, very faint, a hint of skunk wafting by on a cool night breeze. I grew up in the country and it’s one of those smells I come across now and again on the far more rural outskirts of our small city that just reminds me of how the air smelled back then, along with chemical or “natural” field fertilizer. It wasn’t nearly as pleasant when our little Boston terrier came home after picking a fight with a skunk and losing, but at least that was much easier to handle then when she picked fights with porcupines. Then it was off to the very distinct smelling vet office.
It sounds really interesting.
I selfishly wish she would come to N.Y. with her perfumes.
LOL…I wish she’d come to my house, I’m even lazier than you
Yeah, gas is definitely a guilty pleasure smell (is there such a thing, though) in the same vein as nail polish and hot tar. And it’s funny. I was just walking down the street yesterday when i got a blast of fumes and thought, “ah city smells”.
Also, two thumbs up for the sartists use of rotten egg smell to represent government (I’m guessing a corrupt one).
Yes, that was a nice touch!
The top notes of Tubéreuse Criminelle smell strongly of gasoline. Wonderful!
Yes! Why is Tubéreuse Criminelle STILL not in the export line, when nearly everything else is?? That’s what I want to know.