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Ephemeral and invisible, smell chemicals are exchanged at all scales, from cellular to planetary, flowing between microbes, fungi, plants, animals, soil, water and air. Odorants move through and between bodies and ecologies, integral to life processes and multi-species place-making. However, olfactory orientations are redolent with the pungent stench of colonial and capitalist over-consumption, extraction and terra-firming. Across Saapmi, anthropogenic climate change has caused unpredictable snow melts that freeze into ice, covering lichen, which is the main winter food for reindeer. Odorants produced by lichen don’t diffuse through the ice and reindeer struggle to smell and find food. This seemingly small shift has profound effects on ecologies, economies and cultures. This poster describes an artistic research project, “There’s no future in ice,” which explores how creative practices can help us better understand the olfactory relations of lichen, reindeer and ice, non-human experiences of ecological grief and loss, and responsibilities of settler-colonial consumption.