Elements with Enid: Fragrance

In floral design, fragrance is a sweet or pleasing odor, perceived by the sense of smell, which often makes people smell a flower before really looking at it. Like color, fragrance is evocative and personal, and more a component of the atmosphere created by the design than of the design itself.

•             Perception of a fragrance can be as powerful as sensing the fragrance in reality.  

Students cleverly saw that Enid’s designs using not just flowers but also “stinky” animals can evoke a sensation of fragrance in viewers without the presence of an actual daisy, rose, tulip or skunk. Combining pleasant-smelling daisies with unpleasant-smelling skunks helped Enid make a visual pun playing on this phenomenon.