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  • Perfume Ricardo Moya 20 Aug 2018

    Love & Tonic

    The Scent of A Party Zone

    This perfume was inspired by an urge to party in the beautiful, flowery summer. Amsterdam is a happy city: Love and freedom are its catchwords. Ricardo Moya twisted and interpreted a love accord with...
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  • Perfume Niklaus Mettler 20 Aug 2018

    Filtered Beans

    The Scent of Fancy Condos

    The qualities of cafés can tell us about the make-up of a community, a neighborhood’s ethnic composition and about the urban development of a city. Niklaus Mettler extracted the flavors of three...
  • Perfume Alessandro Gualtieri 20 Aug 2018

    White Military Marina

    The Scent of The Navy

    This perfume is an exploration of the machine, human and natural aspects of the military presence in the centre of Amsterdam on the Navy Terrain. The perfume presents a mushroomy soil accord combined...
  • Perfume Maki Ueda 20 Aug 2018

    Dew of Afghanistan

    The Scent of Social Enterprises with Refugees

    Maki Ueda was inspired by a fellow immigrant: an Afghan feminist whom she met on a civic integration course. Maki followed Afghan politics, thinking of her friend. She likes to think of her while she...
  • Perfume Spyros Drosopoulos 20 Aug 2018

    Splash!

    The Scent of Outdoor Sports and Leisure

    Splash! is the scent of people gathering together in an outdoors setting. It's a happy festive scent where one can feel the excitement. We smell water and grass and fresh air in the beginning. As...
  • Private workshop Mediamatic Biotoop

    Smelling Like another being

    with Frank Bloem

    In this workshop we explore the amazing smells that our natural world is rich of, by translating the odor of animals, insects, plants and bacteria into a perfume for humans. Smelling like a cockle in...
  • festival: Mediamatic Biotoop

    Japanese Knotweed Festival

    Under European regulations, invasive exotic species are allowed to be radically eradicated. The City of Amsterdam, for example, is allocating 8 million euros to aggressively destroy Japanese knotweed.
  • workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop

    Composing Fragrance

    8
    Feb 2026
    - with Frank Bloem

    In this workshop, artist, and perfumer Frank Bloem will introduce you to the world of perfume making. You will learn the basics of scent composing and at the end of the workshop, you will have...
  • Mediamatic Biotoop, Oosterdok

    Open Call 2019 Olfactory History of Oosterdok

    This open call is closed

    Before Covid19, we were planning an ambitious event in Amsterdam about the Sensory History of Oosterdok, the eastern part of the old harbour of the city. Related to this project, Mediamatic issued an...
  • Mediamatic Biotoop Alessandra Avanzi

    Cooking with essential oils.

    What does ylang ylang, orange blossom or rose essential oils taste like?

    Do you know that about 70% of our taste comes from our nose? Our taste is basically nothing  without our nose.  In fact, have you ever noticed that when you catch a cold the food tastes different?

  • The real story behind natural perfumery

    Natural vs synthetic. Is it really eco?

    "Natural is always better" a sentence we often hear, but is it really? Well, in perfumery, it is not as simple, and there is a twist to what is commonly known and followed. Chemistry came to add...
  • workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop

    Composing Fragrance

    12
    Apr 2026
    - with Frank Bloem

    In this workshop, artist, and perfumer Frank Bloem will introduce you to the world of perfume making. You will learn the basics of scent composing and at the end of the workshop, you will have...
  • exhibition: Mediamatic Biotoop

    Under the Harbour

    15
    Jan 2026
    15
    Jan 2027
    - by Mariko Hori

    Have you ever wondered how the underwater smells like? Or what scents surround the aquatic species? Under the Harbour is a participatory exhibition that brings the smell of the Oosterdok from the...
  • workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop

    Distilling a Citrus Bouquet

    8
    Feb 2026
    - Turning waste into beauty with Frank Bloem

    In this Aroma Lab workshop you will be introduced to scent extraction and the distillation process. Distillation is the process of extracting essential oils from plant based materials. We'll explore...

  • Raw Materials

    All the Materials used during a workshop

    The material collection is the core of the Aroma Lab and covers with more than 300 raw materials the basic range of synthetic- and natural's used in perfumery. The materials we use for the Open Aroma...

  • Capturing human scent through enfleurage

    In reference to Patrick Süskind’s Das Parfum

    Patrick S ü skind’s Das Parfum (or Perfume: Story of a Murderer) is considered our cult classic. It tells us a story of a man with a superhuman sense of smell who we know as Jean-Baptise Grenouille.
  • Mediamatic Biotoop Nour Akoum

    Aroma Lab's Kids Workshop

    Fruity Birthday Cake version

    Need a way to show kids how to make their own Fragrance but in a fun and relatively easy way? Here is your solution!
  • workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop

    Composing Fragrance

    10
    أيار / مايو 2026
    - with Frank Bloem

    In this workshop, artist, and perfumer Frank Bloem will introduce you to the world of perfume making. You will learn the basics of scent composing and at the end of the workshop, you will have...

  • The Hard Surrender of The Navy Terrain

    As someone who is not born or raised in the Netherlands, I thought the Navy Terrain was just a public park and historic museum at first. Considering the eventful history of the Navy Terrain and what...
  • workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop

    Distilling a Citrus Bouquet

    12
    Apr 2026
    - Turning waste into beauty with Frank Bloem

    In this Aroma Lab workshop you will be introduced to scent extraction and the distillation process. Distillation is the process of extracting essential oils from plant based materials. We'll explore...
  • Mediamatic Biotoop Federica Libralon

    Oil Ex Tech

    Essential oil extraction machine

    Apparatus that thanks the microwave, allows you to extract scented oils. Some precautions to use the extractor and obtain essential oil.
  • Kampen Alessandra Avanzi

    The Aromalab Team meets Hekserij

    An interview with Jan Meutgeert

    Friday 2nd of July 2021, Niklaus, Frank, Nour and I got in the car to visit our biggest supplier of raw materials: Hekserij in Kampen. Jan Meutgeert, the owner of Hekserij, welcomed us warmly and...

  • What makes the essence of a city?

    Diffusion: Essence de Rabot by Yeb Wiersma and Lotte Geeven

    Diffusion: Essence de Rabot is a project by Dutch multidisciplinary artists Yeb Wiersma and Lotte Geeven . It is about capturing the scent of a certain day, of emotions, and of a city through the...

  • Open Sourcing Smell Culture

    Open Sourcing Smell Culture is a year-long collaborative program between the Institute for Art and Olfaction and Mediamatic that explores alternative attribution and sharing strategies for the...

  • Open Sessions

    This summer, Mediamatic and The Institute for Art and Olfaction team up for a series of smell related adventures and experiments. Step by every Wednesday and Thursday between 4 and 8 pm for a...

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