Scentient beings and freebee: scentient bees

‘Scentient Beings’ invents a new science of aroma delivery focusing on smell and the impact it has on health and wellbeing. It explores the concept of Re-cabling Fashion, by implanting smell technology into multi-sensorial clothing. The project promotes wellness by boosting therapeutic qualities concentrating on a more active approach to fashion design, introducing the living dress as a sensitive Smart Second Skin.

By comparing fabric to skin with it’s own personal scent symphony that changes with emotion, the fabric comes alive through smell by a process in which the wearer gives life to the dress. Smart Second Skin interacts with human emotions whereby the aroma dimension is an integral part of the wearers total ‘wellness’ sensory experience. Inspired by a quote from J.G Ballard and the mechanics of the human body, Smart Second Skin acts as a new emotional layer: “Fashion is the recognition that nature has endowed us with one skin too few,that a fully sentient being should wear its nervous system externally”.

The dress mimics the body’s circulation system, the senses and scent glands. The veins and arteries flow freely as the new interactive fabric emitting a selection of scents depending on your mood. It has its own nervous system, which allows the wearer to control the emotional wellbeing of the garment.

Using a theory that human biology can be modeled as micro mechanisms - biological functions such as skin, organs and a beat of a pulsating heart can be miniaturised forming the basis of an integrated communication system so that it rivals nature’s own capillaries. Aromatic messages are actively 'pulsed' electronically through a cabling system, to key points of the body in order to activate the smell centre.

The Smart Second Skin dress allows the wearer to enter a sixth dimension by creating a rainbow symphony of abstract aromas. This makes us more aware of our own smell sensory universe, which has the capacity to expand our sensory repertoire towards the sixth sense.

The wearer could deliver a spray of magic wellness molecules to create their own personal ‘smell bubble’. As a ‘Scentient Beings’ we respond better to our chosen scent, the smell that works with us in our ‘aroma rainbow’. The dress helps you to listen to your body by using the sense of smell. It provides aroma molecules for the right moment for the right effect, triggers new emotions and enhances the intimate contact with other living things. We develop a new hypersensitivity, learn new and stimulating pleasures and recreate lost memories. The dress paves the way to an expanded life, making the most of what are senses have to offer and to help us enjoy the experience of sensing reality.

A Smart Second Skin scent installation presented on a 'caring carpet' at the e-Culture Fair, Amsterdam. Whilst dancing on the carpet, the wearer activates a selection of 'Scentient Being' aromas depending on mood or preference or time of the day.

Free Bee: Scentient Bees (fine fragrance)

A rich and sweet honey aroma. A warm honey accord resting on a sweet ambery undertoned a smart second skin fine fragrance for scentient beings.

The absolute of bees wax has a most pleasant fragrance that directly reminds of honey perfume and of its symbolic meaning, the sweetness and the fullness of spiritual nutriment. Its scent communicates warmness and protection. It gives confidence and comfort and helps to harmoniously integrate the contrasting aspects of personality.
When we feel disappointed, bitter or wounded, it is the aroma that irradiates the solar force of the light and heals the inner pains. It is honey that opens the heart and brings us into contact with our own positive emotions. The perfume of bee's wax emanates, shining like the sunlight, the joyful energy of the bees perpetually busy in singing the divine praise through their happiness to work.

'Scentient bees' fragrance appeals to hyperactive persons who must draw from their organizational capacity.

float like a butterfly
sting like a bee
birds do it
bees do it
even educated fleas do it
lets do it
lets fall in love

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