Volcanos and Missiles
For Odou Magazine, London
A handful of projects attempted the tricky task of writing about scent. My challenge was to translate sensory material that only the language of a chemist can categorize, and to avoid analogy in my text.
I wrote from a space about 5,000 ft above sea level, which smelled of pine and grasses growing atop a 35 million-year-old volcano.
I also travelled around the world’s largest and waviest field of gypsum dunes at White Sands National Park and White Sands Missile Range (WSMR) New Mexico, for Scent Perspectives in the American Southwest. WSMR was established July 1945, one week before the code-named Trinity test, the world's first nuclear explosion, was performed at its northern end.
I provided a cover image and essay about this space, with a focus on interpreting fragrance smell, for issue 2 of ODOU, a London-based magazine on perfume and scent.
