Inspired by Vietnamese calendars and my mom's perfume collection on her vanity, I created prototypes for three different kinds of perfume calendars. For the daily version, I created a new page for each day of the month of February.
This project is a work in progress!
Each day, the calendar makes a fragrance recommendation. It lists its position on David T. Stanton and Michael Zarzo's fragrance wheel. It also lists the top, heart/middle, and base notes. Lastly, it highlights one of the main notes of the fragrance.
I also designed a spiral-bound calendar meant to be displayed on a wall, inspired by the Vietnamese/Chinese calendars that are commonly found in Asian supermarkets.
I created a third version of the calendar that was stable bound. The calendar is perforated and has two hole punches near the spine so that it could be hung up on a wall by threading a ribbon or string through the holes.
The front cover doubles as a paper fortune teller or cootie catcher, where each layer of the fortune teller tells the user their daily top, middle, and base "notes."
Below is an example of a Vietnamese/Chinese calendar, commonly used in Asian American households around the world. Each day is printed on thin paper to be torn off. These calendars often contain Western and Vietnamese lunar year dates, Zodiac signs, holidays, cultural or Buddhist proverbs, etc.
This Fragrance Wheel by David T. Stanton and Manuel Zarzo combines Michael Edwards' fragrance wheel and Paul Jellinek's Odor Effect Diagram. I repurposed it to treat it as a divine chart, akin to astrology.
Fragrance Wheel and odor effects diagram. Stanton, D. T. and Zarzo, M., 2009. Attention Perception & Psychophysics 71(2):225-47.
