‘Everything Is About Chemistry’: Sissel Tolaas on Her Mission to Understand Smell at The Met and Beyond
Now shes brought her talents to The Met. I see the smell molecule as the alphabet of emotional intelligence, she says. Smell is the biggest preserver of emotion in humans. Sissel Tolaas for Balenciaga, spring 2024 ready-to-wear The machines still have not shown the capacity to show emotion the way that humans [do]. In 97 I decided to dedicate myself completely to this topic [of smell]. Unlike professional noses and the fragrance industry at large, Tolaas does not aim to yo....