The Scent of Jewellery

I always think about the connection between aroma and jewellery. How much smells influence our life and our sympathies to others - for a long time the connection is proved between pheromones and partner choice, in addition, how smell our brain and our emotions strongly influence. Wearing perfume like jewellery. I’ve impregnated wooden pieces (from silver fir) with oil mixture of ethereal oils and bee-wax to make a new dimension and an experience which has his origin in Pomander (or musk apple). The relation between jewellery and perfume is very narrow. In the middle Ages the ladies and lords of the Provence carried small pendants filled with musk or amber which was called “Pomander “. Magic forces were ascribed to this pendant and one said that it protected its bearer. The pomander was worn or carried in a vase, also known by the same name, as a protection against infection in times of pestilence or merely as a useful article to mollify bad smells. Ceremonies, Amulets, Perfumes To reassert tribal needs and memories You can see the jewel But if you close your eyes You can “only” smell it Smells like sweet moschus Like memories. Emotion is a memory of scent Scent is a memory of emotion

brooch The Scent of Jewellery #8 2009 Wood, silver, steel, smoky-quartz, wax perfume 62 x 57 x 39 mm

brooch The Scent of Jewellery #7 2009 Wood, silver, steel, agate, wax perfume 82 x 59 x 29 mm

brooch The Scent of Jewellery #6 2009 Wood, silver, steel, malachite, silk, wax perfume 35 x 35 x 17mm

necklace The Scent of Jewellery #9 2009 Wood, silver, agate, silk, wax-perfume 76 x 61 x 22 mm, cord 58 cm

necklace The Scent of Jewellery #5 2009 Wood, silver, septaries, wax perfume 78 x 72 x 30 mm, chain 60 cm

brooch The Scent of Jewellery #10 2009 Wood, blaufluss elephant, silver, steel, wax-perfume 125 x 54 x 34 mm

brooch The Scent of Jewellery #4 2009 Wood, malachite, found gold object with precious stones, brass, wax-perfume 85 x 35 x 29 mm

. pendant The Scent of Jewellery #11 2009 Wood, tiger eye cameo, tourqise, silver, gold, wax-perfume, gold chain 51 x 32 x 16 mm

brooch The Scent of Jewellery #3 2009 Wood, agate, silver, wax-perfume 62 x 32 x 32 mm

variable brooch The Scent of Jewellery #2 2009 Wood, fossil coral, red jasper, silver, wax-perfume 50 x 70 x 54 mm

brooch The Scent of Jewellery #12 2009 Wood, rose quartz, silver, wax-perfume 80 x 40 x 12 mm

brooch The Scent of Jewellery #1 2009 Wood, amethyst, peridot, silver, wax-perfume75 x 60 x 20 mm