Beau Voerman
designer/poet
Beau Voerman
designer/poet
I carefully scrape my words
I make them portable
they fall
To show up
A fascination for materiality and an eye for refinement.
Inside a fragile building
creating portable spaces.
I carefully scrape my words
I make them portable
they fall
To show up
A fascination for materiality and an eye for refinement.
Inside a fragile building
creating portable spaces.


Olfactory Designer
& Artistic Researcher
Combinations of descriptors
An overview of combinations of descriptors for smells found across various sources of literature
Deep, tenacious, diffusive, musky, dirty or delicate, and slightly animalic = abroxan
Fresh, vivacious = anise
Green and anisic = basil
Honeyed, balmy = beeswax
Citrusy, bright, aromatic, raspy = bergamot
Yeasty, acidic, toasted = bread
Raspy and fatty = candle wax
Sweet (caramel), burnt and strawberry-fruity = candy floss
Mineralic, delicate, chalky = clay rhassoul
Candy, powedery, spiky = cinnamon
Pungent, medicinal, metallic = cloves
Dewy, fresh, fleshy = coconut
Roasted, warm, diffusive = coffee
Oily and waxy = crayons
Soft, fresh and clean = freesia
Green, tangy, fresh = freshly cut grass
Green, metallic, acidic = gardenias
Velvety, solar, edible = gourmand
Citrusy, raspy = grapefruit
Green and raspy = grape tomatoes
Heady, resinous = hair-removal wax
Warm, mineralic, haughty = incense
Fine, fruity, creamy, animalic, honeyed, sweet, balsamic = jasmine
Citrusy, bright and zesty = lemon
Animalic, smoky, fatty, dark, powdery, tarry = leathery
Fine, subtle, fresh = lily of the valley
Citrusy, fleshy, vegetal and green = neroli
Citrusy, bright, zesty and fruity = orange
Salty, sulphurous, green and aldehydic = oysters
Citrusy, vegetal and crispy = petitgrain
Aromatic, cool, minty = pine needles
Green, vegetal, herbaceous, juicy, acidic, earthy, sour = rhubarb
Petallly, dark, winey, spiky, airy = rose
Milky, suave, woody = sandalwood
Clean and ozonic = snow
Bright, clean, fluid, powdery, herbaceous, bitter = star anise
Suave and tart = strawberries
Crispy, juicy, soft, lush, velvety = suede
Warm, powdery, ambery = tobacco
unctuous, creamy = vanilla