ABSTRACT
This chapter presents the art that creates an atmosphere in the most basic sense, i.e. olfactory art, with a particular emphasis on perfumes. Through olfactory art one can say literally, in Adorno's words, say by not saying something about the character of nature and environments, and human proximity to human surroundings and the natural world. In many artworks there is a special focus on the materials in the medium. Many perfumes and other types of olfactory art share this kind of focus. Olfactory art and perfumes can help reveal the natural and raw dimension internal and external of human lives in their environments. The chapter explores that olfactory artworks can express something about the rawness of materials found in nature and nature's generative capacities that would be inaccessible through a purely scientific investigation. Ellena has made perfumes which relate to particular types of environment.
