SUPER SENSE
Mar 12, 2020
3 minutes
PHOTOGRAPHY: ADRIAN ESCU
WRITER: CHRISTOPHER STOCKS
issel Tolaas sniffs where others fear to tread. ‘When other people start throwing up,’ she says, ‘that’s when I start to work.’ The self-professed scientist of smell has created cheese from David Beckham’s sweat and finds the odour of ordure far more fascinating than what she calls ‘cover-up perfumes’. But she has also recreated the scent of extinct flowers and encapsulated the life story of a Douglas fir tree
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