Océane Fontaine Cioffi
@oceanefc.bsky.social
PhD student in history (she/her) • History of Early Modern Science and Technology & Material Culture • Recipe books & reconstruction • 👃🌹🍃 Thesis topic: The Art of Scents. Fragrances in 16th-Century France • History of senses, of olfaction, of embodiment
📣 Excited to join a roundtable with fellow researchers at Les Rendez-vous de l’Histoire in Blois tomorrow! @rdvhistoire.bsky.social Looking forward to sharing ideas! The description of our session is available at the link below 📎 rdv-histoire.com/programme/qu... #rvh #rvh2025 #Renaissance
Such a great day in Grenoble discussing olfactory heritage — inspiring talks and stimulating encounters with perfumers, artists, and researchers. So inspiring to see scents bringing people together! Organised by @erikawicky.bsky.social and Audrey Colonel-Coquet
📣Exciting News 📣 Dates & host institution for the SSHM Biennial Conference #SSHM2026 are confirmed! Save the Date in your planners 📅 Theme and CFPs to follow later #histmed #medhumanities #histSTM
I’m working on early modern perfumery (France, 16th c.): ingredients, techniques, meanings. Curious to hear from scholars working on scent, crafts, material culture, or multisensory history. Let’s connect! #Histodon #SensoryStudies #EarlyModern #PhDLife #MaterialCulture #PerfumeHistory #Perfumery
Throes ! But I would love to throw my thesis…out the window.
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Now onto our first panel on ‘Embodied Knowledge’! We begin with a paper by Océane Fontaine Cioffi on ‘Naming Selecting, and Using Plants: Botanical Knowledge in 16thC Perfumery’… 🌸🌺🪻#plantsandpeople
🌹I was so lucky to take part in an incredible conference: “Plants & People: the Cultivation and Propagation of Botanical Knowledge Among Non-Professional Communities, c. 1600-1800" (8-9 July 2025) at Cambridge; organised by @zarakesterton.bsky.social and @lucyjhavard.bsky.social 🌱 🌿 🌺
