Ellen Covey is an American neurobiologist, researcher, perfumer and professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Washington. Member Association for Research in Otolaryngology, Society for Neurosci., European Neurosci. Association, Sigma Xi.
Ellen Covey | |
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| Born | 26 September 1947 |
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| Notable work | Bat |
| Website | orchidscents |
Early life and career
editBorn in the United States, Covey's family moved throughout Europe and lived in Switzerland, France, Germany, and Italy during her childhood. She studied premed at the University of Houston and received a master's degree in biology from the University of Texas. At Duke University, she studied chemical senses for her dissertation and got a post-doc at Princeton studying the visual system.[1] She lives in North Seattle Washington, and is a professor of Department of Psychology and affiliate of the Bloedel Hearing Research Center at the University of Washington.[2] Her work centers on mammalian central nervous system, with a research focus on the auditory process of bats and echolocation.[3]
As a perfumer, Covey is the founder and perfumer of Olympic Orchids Artisan Perfumes.[1] She won the 2015 Art & Olfaction Award Artisan prize for Olympic Orchid's Woodcut in and placed as a 2014 Artisan category finalist for Olympic Orchid's Blackbird.[4] She also has collaborated with Canadian perfume house Zoologist on Bat (2016), which won the Independent prize at the 2016 Art and Olfaction Awards.[5][6][7][8] Bat was discontinued in 2019 [9] when Zoologist began moving toward a business model where all fragrances would be produced by a single manufacturer.[10] Covey declined to sell Bat's proprietary formula, instead re-releasing the fragrance under the Olympic Orchids label as Night Flyer in 2020.[11]
Covey also runs an orchid nursery, which instigated and informs her work as a perfumer. Her interest in orchids started at the Duke Medical Center's Immunobiology Department, when she received several orchid plants from a faculty member.[1][12]
Creations
editOlympic Orchids
edit| The Devil Scents | Scents of Place | Peace-Love-Perfume Project |
| Year | Creations | ||||||||
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| 2010 | Carolina | Kingston Ferry | Golden Cattleya | Red Cattleya | Javanica | Elektra | Olympic Rainforest | Tucson (Arizona) | |
| 2011 | Olympic Amber | Gujarant | Kyphi | Osafume | Fleurs de Glace | ||||
| 2012 | Salamanca | Sonnet XVII | Bay Rum | Ballets Rouges | Dev #1: Foreplay | Dev #2: The Main Act | Dev #3: The Inevitable | Dev #4: Reprise | LIL |
| 2013 | Blackbird | Cafe V | Tropic of Capricorn | Seattle Chocolate | California Chocolate | ||||
| 2014 | Sakura | Woodcut | African Orchid | PLP1 Peace | PLP2 Love | PLP3 Perfume | |||
| 2015 | Mardi Gras | White Cattleya | |||||||
| 2017 | Chevalier Vert | Hamsa | |||||||
| 2018 | Kilauea | ||||||||
| 2020 | Night Flyer | ||||||||
Zoologist
edit- Bat (2016)
References
edit- ^ a b c Olfactif. "The Amazing Ellen Covey".
- ^ "Ellen Covey - Graduate Program in Neuroscience". depts.washington.edu.
- ^ "Ellen Covey - Google Scholar Citations". scholar.google.com.
- ^ "Report from the second annual Art & Olfaction Awards ~ by Deadidol — Basenotes.net". www.basenotes.net. 27 April 2015.
- ^ "2016 Winners and Finalists – The Art and Olfaction Awards". www.artandolfactionawards.org.
- ^ Syme, Rachel (25 October 2016). "We're Animals, After All". The New York Times.
- ^ Kumar, Surya Praphulla (7 April 2017). "Animal instinct". The Hindu – via www.thehindu.com.
- ^ Zoologist. "An Interview with Ellen Covey, the perfumer of Zoologist's Bat".
- ^ "Zoologist Bat Discontinued".
- ^ "Looks like bat from zoologist perfumes is being discontinued". 22 June 2019.
- ^ "Olympic Orchids NIGHT FLYER (Dr. Ellen Covey) the "Original" is Back". 11 April 2020.
- ^ Hardy, Jesse. ""Like Joni Mitchell's alternate guitar tunings" - An interview with Dr Ellen Covey of Olympic Orchids". www.basenotes.net.