Guggenheim’s ‘Scent Opera’ To Be An Olfactory Cavalcade

“Christophe Laudamiel, … a French fragrance designer who has created perfumes for Clinique, Estée Lauder, Ralph Lauren and Michael Kors, is collaborating on a ‘scent opera,’ a new performance art that pairs music with a carefully orchestrated sequence of smells, some pleasant and some real stinkers. … In a darkened theater, audiences will be bombarded with smells, blasted in six-second sequences by a scent ‘microphone’ attached to each seat.”