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Making Scents
Year 3 Research Project
Making Scents is a personal archive of olfactory memory. It begins with my grandmother’s perfume bottle collection, each bottle a trace of her travels, her character, and the invisible architecture of remembrance that scent carries. The project transforms these bottles into a collection of memories made spatial.The armature, in response to the brief, acts as both structure and narrative. It is a foldable, dismantlable frame that holds, protects, and stages the bottles. Portable and adaptable, it mirrors how memory moves, fragile, shifting, never fixed. The design mediates light, reflection, and air, allowing scent to become a spatial material.
Murano glass and Venetian craft are central references. Their fragility and transparency echo perfume’s fleeting nature, linking the project to Venice’s own duality, permanence within impermanence. Light refracting through glass and mirrored surfaces evokes how recollection distorts yet preserves traces of what once was.
Finally, Making Scents gestures toward the future of memory. As AI begins to map scents and emotions, the project situates itself between craft and technology, an armature for remembering through the immaterial, where architecture collects not objects, but sensations.
Link to Making Scents Portfolio (WORK IN PROGRESS)