My recent article for the LA Weekly is about the Institute of Art & Olfaction in Chinatown, a place where you can experiment with – and learn about – smells good and bad, and everything in between.
Recently, in association with GHOULA, they ran a great event called Phantosmia, which sent you on a scavenger hunt across LA with vials of smell, all of which related to the death of a Hollywood celebrity.
Some of the smells were lovely – perfume or flowers – but some were much less pleasant…
http://www.laweekly.com/arts/a-school-in-chinatown-is-bringing-perfumery-to-the-people-6338043