“The line is a dot that goes out for a walk” - Paul Klee

The starting point for this thesis has been to explore the realm of olfaction. The sense of smell has long been regarded as a less important sense, however this is changing. By venturing into the olfactory system, and training the sense of smell, I have created botanical fragrance compositions, that through perception have been interpreted into lines, and further to shapes, forms and representations of jewelry. The line has thus been utilized from a position of wayfaring, gradually turning into a meshwork of lines, where the emergent shapes become the foundation for further
research, supported by methods such as probing, coupling, mapping, artistic research and interview.

The definition of jewelry is here quite broad, and includes perfume, the criteria being that jewelry has to relate to the body. In this project, the analysis of perfume as jewelry presents many interesting perspectives. Wearing perfume can affect our mood directly, as an intimate, inward experience, and simultaneously as an intentional action of non verbal communication. Perfume is both inhaled into the body, absorbed into the skin, and vapourizes from the skin, venturing outwards.

The shapes and forms that have emerged from fragrance through lines, have in this experiment the characteristics of being organic and in motion. They are ambiguous in nature, and can be both soft and sharp, concave and convex, and move in several directions.

The line is not either/or, it is both-and, and it has value and possibility for novelty in so many ways. In this project I show how it can be utilized as a perceptual tool in olfaction to generate form, and in possible extension, jewelry.