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.


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