Ars Anni
ARS ANNI (or “art of the year”) is a seasonal exercise in synesthesia, translating the unique sensory qualities of certain classical artworks into fragrance. More added every month in 2025!
November Art: An Autumn Lie-In
Omoshiroki
Aki no asane ya
Teishu-buri
– Matsuo Basho
December Art: Ice-Shining, Glittering
She was beautiful and she was graceful, but she was ice-shining, glittering ice.
– Hans Christian Andersen
January Art: Two-Faced Janus is Here, and First Begins the Year
Hic Iani mensis sacer est, en aspice ut aris
Tura micent, sumant ut pia tura Lares.
Annorum saeclique caput, natalis honorum
Purpureis fastis qui numerat proceres.
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All Souls’ Day (Hedwig Cemetery) Perfume Oil
Out of StockFranz Skarbina
Ancient cypresses surrounding clusters of purple hyacinth, fallen leaves, and crosses crafted from white roses. A splash of rosewater, an immortelle hung on a tear-streaked marble tomb, nightshade berries, smoked lilac, warm beeswax, and a snuffed candle.
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Cemetery in the Moonlight Perfume Oil
Out of StockCarl Gustav Carus
Dead grass, upturned soil, rusted ironwork, and oak leaves etched against a sepia-stained wash of tonka bean, patchouli, vetiver, and amber-tinged oud.
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English Magpie Eating Cake Perfume Oil
Add to cartRubens Peale
Vanilla sponge cake, royal icing, pudding wine, honey dust, and black fig.
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Girl Holding a Snake – Innocence Perfume Oil
Add to cartKarl Wilhelm Diefenbach
Vanilla cream engulfed in dark, lush mosses, balsamic woods, and deep green incense tar. -
In Ictu Oculi Perfume Oil
Add to cartJuan de Valdés Leal
Crimson silk, burnished gold, cavernous oud, spilled ink on yellowed vellum, bone dust, myrrh smoke, and scythe iron. -
L’Homme Fut Solitaire Dans un Paysage de Nuit Perfume Oil
Add to cartOdilon Redon
Lilac-stained labdanum casting a long shadow across a flicker of frankincense smoke and ambergris accord.
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Moonlight, Wolf Perfume Oil
Add to cartFrederic Remington
A deep, animalic whisper: wild patchouli root, fossilized amber, russet musk, clove bud, juniper needles, hay absolute, and earthy oud with a glimmer of yellow crystalline lemon peel.
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Morieris Perfume Oil
Add to cartHans Memling
A rictus grin of white sandalwood, toasted cedar, tonka bean, cacao, and palo santo. -
Murió la Verdad Perfume Oil
Add to cartFrancisco Goya
Tolu balsam, angelica root, smoked tonka bean, brown sandalwood, bourbon vanilla, orris absolute, agarwood, and fig wood.
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Satan Presiding at the Infernal Council Perfume Oil
Out of StockJohn Martin
Black musk, frankincense, leather, black pepper, incense smoke, ebony, angelica root, and a splash of Stygian fougere.
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Tar Papering (Crows) Perfume Oil
Add to cartAndrew Wyeth
White sandalwood, orris root, ambergris, vetiver root, cardamom, white cedar, and black pepper. -
The Great Battle of the Vegetables and the Fish Perfume Oil
Add to cartUtagawa Hirokage
Aomono sakana gunzei ô-kassen no zu: a chaotic clash of peppers, komatsuna, kabu, and daikon splashed by salt water and kelp with a dash of wasabi.
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The Kiss of the Sphinx Perfume Oil
Out of StockFranz Von Stuck
Black cherry and smoked plum resins, saffron and sweet labdanum, sensual tuberose, blackened patchouli, myrrh smoke, crimson iris, and scarlet musk.
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The Mulberry Tree in Autumn Perfume Oil
Add to cartVincent Van Gogh
Desiccated mulberries, yellowing mulberry leaves, lemon peel haze
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Three Human Skulls Perfume Oil
Add to cartSalvator Rosa
Bleached white sandalwood, ambrette seed, gurjum balsam, nagarmotha, Spanish moss, and lily of the valley. -
Vision Perfume Oil
Out of StockCarolus-Duran
Scarlet silk, peonies, pink rose petals, neroli, woodmoss, clove bud, carnation cream, and skin musk. -
Wooden Path in Autumn Perfume Oil
Add to cartHans Andersen Brendekilde
Rooibos tea, a scattering of russet leaves, maple sap, and the fast-fading scent of once-green grass.