Making Scents

[beetiger]

In my neverending quest to push the envelope of furrydom and do what I feel like doing, I was thinking of doing some scent art for Anthrocon. One would expect anthropomorphics to enjoy perfumery and value it as a real artform, right?

I was hoping to custom hand blend massage oils for people according to their species and preferences, and sell these at the Artists' Alley. Unfortunately, I've just heard back from the coordinator, and this isn't a kind of "art" that's acceptable to the Alley. I'm not allowed to compete with the people who draw catgirls for a spot there. This makes me sad.

But I still kind of want to do it. Is this a stupid idea, or a brilliant one? Should I put this out on FurBid? Take preorders via LJ and bring them to the con? Would anyone want something like this?

(ps I have nothing against catgirls.)

Comments

Art as a sensory experience

[coppercheetah.livejournal.com]

The concept of a 'scent painting' intrigues me, too...

How fugitive are these scents? (This is more a question for how long the effect of a given painting is going to last, as oils tend to be a rather transient thing.)

Are they dissolved in a base that could be, say, added to an actual oil paint or acrylic? Truly, you could potentially have a painting that is as much olfactory as visual: Pines that smell like pines, cats that smell like cats, mountains with an earthy smell, and so on. Adding this as a secondary- sensory component to a piece of work really brings up some interesting ideas.

pines that smell like pines

[perlandria.livejournal.com]

I am getting willie wonka flashbacks
"The strawberries taste like strawberries! The snozzelberries taste like snozzleberries!" Man, a scratch and sniff illustration of that wallpaper would have kicked ass.