Last week Julius Thissen and myself were at a fantastic night organized by OPA (Ontwerp Platform Arnhem) called Genderbenders. We listened to the very interesting stories of artists and activists Chet Bugter and Janice DeulContinue reading

I’m a teacher now! Or at least I tried to educate a class on the subject of Other Senses, this year. We especially talked about the practical side of artistic perfumery. The best part? HavingContinue reading

I went to London for four days for a perfume-visit. Check out all of the stuff I managed to get done: – smell Iris Gris – smell all kinds of real Ambegris – smell allContinue reading

Working at the Province is quite hard work. Of course once a year, you do get a great party! This year there was a mini-festival at the Provinciehuis. There was music, great food, art andContinue reading

This weekend we’ll be participating in Festival Onzichtbaar Landschap, an artistic festival that explores the parts of the landscape that can’t be seen, or need a different way of looking at, to be appreciated. AllContinue reading

So what do you do when you’re a perfumer and one of your best friends gets married? You make a perfume!   I felt totally honoured to be able to scent my friends wedding thisContinue reading

Every year the Hortus Botanicus in Leiden has a party at Summer Solstice: for us this was the first time attending and it was funny how the longest day of the year flew by!  Continue reading

After almost half a year of crowdfunding, renovation and moving, we finally we’re able to open our new lab at Beekstraat 98 in Arnhem. We couldn’t be more exited about how the space looks andContinue reading

With the start of the National Book Week, there was a theme a lot of people wish to adres. It’s actually THE theme of the Book Week: “Moeder de vrouw”. It’s rather hard to translate,Continue reading

On Tuesday the 20th of March I was invited to give a talk at Herman Centraal. An especially big honor since the evening started with a very enlightening talk from Herman Tjeenk Willink, our formarContinue reading