Working out... Paloma Faith wearing our soft wool body suit. Oh and a photo of Jennifer Beals because why not....it was her or ONJ. Talent / palomafaith Styling / airysomething Photo / maanamman Press / mgc_london #timothyhan #palomafaith #bodysuit

Me... Thinking about life and not wearing all black for once. One day I'll learn how to smile for a picture. #selfportrait #perfumer #fujifilm

When I mention I scented an opera, people always want to know what it smelled like. Usually they want answers like what notes did I use? What top notes? Mid notes? And base notes? Do they detect olibanum or aldehydes? Perhaps some calone? But I never want to answer them. Telling them what notes I used is boring. It's like meeting a lover for the first time and already knowing all there is to know about them. It destroys the mystery and kills the romance.  It also gives those without imagination a certain smugness if they know the notes and it matches their expectations. And the perfume industry is filled with a lot of very smug but dull people. Does it really matter what notes I used? Instead I choose to answer with words that tell a story. Words that cause you to think and dream rather than accept. So to answer the question. The first slide was the mood. The second slide describes how the opera smelled. Fragrance for me is all about that story and your own interaction with it. Slides three through five are from our AW21 shoot by Dan Wilton in Seven Sisters. Slide four is Angie Vargas wearing our parachute dress in white. Styled by Thomas Tait. The sixth slide shows the scented smoke rings that are emitted from an early prototype of the Scent Speaker I developed with KEF. This is how we projected the scent to the audience. The final slide is who I would imagine wearing that scent. Nadja's dress is made from layers of chiffon that create a play with translucency. Now you know what the opera smelled like. #timothyhanstudio #perfumebeyondthebottle #perfume #nicheperfume #poetry #perfumer #midjourney

You smell like someone I imagined.... Nadja is wearing a high collared silk chiffon shirt and silk satin trousers straight from my imagination. Her perfume is a concept I'm currently developing for a very special private client. #timothyhanedition #smellslike #stare #nicheperfume #midjourney

Excited to give a look at the prototype of our Scent Speaker developed in collaboration with kef.eu. The speaker uses a KEF driver to power a vortex cannon which pushes scent out to the audience. The wave signal sent to the speaker controls the speed and shape of the smoke ring. The first public outing of the speaker was for a sold out collaboration with Haroon Mirza (wavesunlimited) for an opera called Re_Creation with the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group (bcmg_photos) at The CSBO (thecsbo) in Birmingham. #KEF #KEFxTimothyHan #KEFxHaroonMirza #SoundbyKEF #KEFScentSpeaker

In your head... black silk crepe georgette shirt dress for those in their own sensory worlds. I wonder what she smells like? #timothyhanedition #gothgirl #midjourney

I want to experiment with scent. I don't like the idea of perfume being only something trapped in a bottle which you spray on your skin. I want people to engage with their sense of smell like we once would have. To discover how powerful and influential it is to our world. Yet it is something most people take for granted without actually thinking about or even realising what their noses are perceiving. I have always been saddened that many things we have today do not smell or taste like they once did. I remember having a conversation with my dear friend the florist nikkitibbleswildatheart about flowers once having a much more powerful fragrance than they do today. I found this sad. Sad because it profoundly alters our experience and enjoyment. But flowers don't smell anymore. I wanted to restore scent to flowers by infusing them with perfume. But then I thought... why should a flower smell like a flower? So we started to experiment. These flowers have been infused with the scent of tar, whiskey and cedar. Notes which help to make up my fragrance On the Road. It's fun to play with people's perceptions. I've added the smelling notes to this fragrance on another slide in the form of some text I jotted down when I was creating it. For those who don't know all my fragrances are inspired by literature. This piece of text which I wrote was what I took away from Jack Kerouac's novel On the Road and used as the inspiration to create the fragrance. It is narrated here by eriktodddellums   #perfume #naturalperfume #nicheperfume #perfumebeyondthebottle #flowers #scentedflowers

I've always been fascinated with the idea of "scent beyond the bottle" and in particular fusing scent with sound. So when audio engineering firm kef.eu approached me a year or so ago to see if there was any way that I could use their speakers in my work it was an opportunity too good to pass up. So of course I said "yes but not as you make them..." thus was born the idea of a "scent speaker" - a device which would use music to push scent out to the audience. So after a year of working on it,  I am excited to say that we will finally present our speaker in its first public trial this Sunday 28th of January at 4.30 pm at thecbso for an opera entitled ‘re_creation’ by Haroon Mirza outputs_av. The final two image shows a prototype of the speaker.  ‘Re_creation’ is a sound installation and performance in which sculpture becomes set, instrument and lightning design. Complete with light, scent, smoke rings and art musicians, attendees experience the piece by moving through the space for a full-body sensory encounter in which everyday low-end technology such as lightbulbs and used turntables have been reworked by Haroon Mirza to make his sculptures. (Text lisson_gallery) For this opera we have created a rich woody scent which we call Monastic Decay. An olfactory symphony composed of a diverse array of contrasting scents intertwined in an ethereal, abstract balance, where fragrant echoes of frankincense, myrrh, and olibanum resinoids gracefully drift over the aged and weathered hardwood pews of an abandoned church. Damp Portland stone walls covered with traces of moss provide a background to this composition. I’m very proud to be part of the stellar team of talent which have come together for this project. But of course especially to Jack, Alex, David and Mica at KEF for helping to make the idea a reality. Artist - Haroon Mirza  Composer - lucyarmstrong91 Contributing Artist - Siobhan Coen Film - helgadorotheafilm Choreography - juliecunninghamandcompany Soprano - Juliet Fraser Scent - timothyhanedition Performer py_star Poet - David Spittle  Costume Design - osmanstudio Birmingham Contemporary Music Group  bcmg_photos jackjelfs gerdursigurlin

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