Aromatic Journey #1 exhibiting at the Erasmus MC

Exhibition Ol_Factory - the smell laboratorium -
co-exhibition with Martina Florians

from 13th of July till the beginning of September

at Erasmus MC Restaurant 't Recept, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

direction:
take tram 8 from the Rotterdam Central Station in direction to Marconiplein (not Kleiweg).
Get off at the tram station Erasmus Medical Center.
Walk into the parking garage until you find the elevator,
take the elevator to the 3rd floor.
Then follow the sign "restaurant"

how is the scent of seeweed now?

results - 14 June 2007

nori (dried) in 100% alchohol: doesn't smell like anything ---> trash

hiziki (dried) in 100% alchohol: does smell like one substance of the sea. New content and repeat the process.

konbu (dried) in 100% alchohol: doesn't smell like konbu ---> trash

nori (waterd) in 70% alchohol: good smell ---> bottled

hiziki (waterd) in 70% alchohol: good smell ---> bottled

konbu (waterd) in 70% alchohol: doesn't smell like konbu ---> trash

bottling the hiziki

seaweed tincture

On May 10th I've started extracting the scent of the seaweeds.
The shore in Japan smells often like it, in addition to the smell of the sea water.
There are many soorts of seaweed in Japan, and people eat it as vegetable.
Once you dive underwater, you'd find that you are in the miso soup... with all the seaweeds making slow and fluid movement.

left: hiziki
middle: konbu
right: nori

Soak them first in the water for 10 min.
Add 3 teaspoons alcohol (pure) 70%

cherry blossom tincture finished

I have pressed the cherry blossom and got 20ml of its tincture.
The smell has ripen - very elegant now.

2nd week of the cherry blossom tincture

The old cherry blossom is taken out, and new one is in the bottle now.



... And the bottles next to the cherry blossom one contain different sort of sea weed.
I'm trying to extract the "smell of the shore" in Japan.

cherry blossom tincture

tincture of cherry blossom (memo of the tryout)

• alcohol 99.8% (ethanol): 25ml
• pickled cherry blossom: 25g, first unsalt it in water for 5 min.
  

Let it soak in the bottle for a week.
Shake every day
After a week replace the content with the new one, repeat it for 2 or 3 times.



It already smells very nice.