Art and Science.
I believe that Science is an Art and Art is a Science.
How can we possibly differentiate between the two?
Both have their audiences, some people see things from a scientific perspective and see things outcoming as science likewise some people see things from an artistic perspective and outcome too.
Putting this into the topic we all love...
Distillation can be seen as an art by some people and a science by others, the final product the oil is the same, some see it as art and others see it as science coming together.
Blending oils is the same! Scientifically if you have product A B C and blend them together with different % for a specific outcome, if product A B C always remain the same with and the % of each used is always the same you will always have the same outcome. Science.
Likewise Blending oils is also as an art where you use specific products to gain an outcome, if you use product A B C and you are blending not to achieve something already created and you are creating this blend for the first time, by using your creative senses such as nose to judge the amount to put in and using your senses to create something is an art. Using product A B C to create something without noting down % of each used etc and judging purely on senses and scent it is very difficult to create the same product again and again.
I guess it comes down to what the creator is wanting to achieve, the final outcome. Is the person wanting to have a product which can be duplicated again and again, science is needed, but again creating that first product might have needed artistic senses to create in the first place.
Or
Is the person creating a product purely to enjoy it for what it turns out to be.
Someone can use Art and someone can use Science and the product they will have as an outcome can be the same. It is dependant on what they are wanting to achieve throughout the "creative process". You can give 5 people the same products A B C on 5 different occasions and the end result is always different for all or can be the same for all. Depends which approach they use and what they want as the outcome. The same person can make the same product 5 times if they use a scientific approach to do the same thing again and again. But remember creating that product the first time they may have used creative senses like nose to create the product first time round. Art. Then duplicating it is a science.
Science is Art and Art is science.
Just my two scents