Perfume : a Sensory Journey Through Contemporary Scent
Confusing exhibition at Somerset House looking at ten perfumes and what makes them unique. Once I understood the pattern for the show I quite enjoyed it but I was so confused at the beginning I found myself getting angry at the vapidness of it. If the guide in the first room had explained a bit more about what was going to happen rather than just thrusting a chart at me saying “It’s for social media. It starts here in room 1” I might have stood a better chance. It turned out it wasn’t room one it was a introductory room and the sheet was to get you thinking about your first impressions of each scent and whether that changed when you knew more about it. OK so once I’d worked it out this show was quite clever. There were five rooms each with a visual representation of a specific scent and small bags or balls to sniff the scent from. This was followed by a room told you want the five scents were, how they had been developed and what they were made up of. This then repea...