PROFESSOR OF PERFUME
When Conan Fee, a professor of chemical engineering at the University of Canterbury, saw that a space was up for lease in Christchurch’s Arts Centre Te Matatiki Toi Ora last year, he decided the moment had finally arrived to share his scientific expertise through a perfume shop.
Fee, whose other research interests include adsorption engineering and 3D printing of porous media, had been making perfumes for years. At Fragranzi — that’s what his shop is named — he offers classes ranging from short DIY workshops to two-week courses teaching