CLAY IT COOL - for scentimental moments
Leonore Antonia Aigner
Student
Leonore Antonia Aigner Academic staff
Klaus Hackl Ingrid Kofler Ignacio Merino SanchezFayos Course
Unveiling Scents. Designing With, Through, and For Smell. Program
BA Major Design Semester
2024/25 SS Clay it Cool – for Scentimental Moments
What if scent could steady us—gently, invisibly, from within?
Clay it Cool is a collection of wearable scent objects designed as quiet companions in everyday life. Crafted from unglazed ceramic and silver, each piece holds a drop of essential oil—lavender, citrus, cedar—chosen not for others to notice, but for the wearer to feel. Inspired by the ancient language of aromatherapy and the discreet elegance of the pomander, the jewelry offers moments of calm in motion. A breath becomes an anchor. A scent becomes presence.
Not decoration, but a design of care. Something small, to carry something deep.
A project made in the course
Unveiling Scents. Designing With, Through, and For Smell.
While visual, acoustic, and tactile impressions often take center stage in design education, olfactory perception has received relatively little attention in design practice. Yet, most of our experiences are accompanied by a scent, even if we are not consciously aware of it. Among all our senses, none is as deeply connected to personal memories, and emotions - both positive and negative - as the sense of smell. Shouldn’t this dimension receive at least as much focus and appreciation in design education as the more established media of contemporary design?
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