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 2024!
August Art: The Heats of August
When summer opens, I see how fast it matures and fears it will be short; but after the heats of July and August, I am reconciled, like one who has had his swing, to the cool of autumn.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
September Art: The Maturing Sun
Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness,
Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun…
– John Keats
October Art: The Treasure of the Year
October is the treasure of the year,
And all the months pay bounty to her store
– Paul Laurence Dunbar
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A View From the Window Perfume Oil
Add to cartNelson Shanks
Crimson and ash-green velvet, leatherbound books, a scattering of ink-dribbled papers, beeswax, dried flowers, faded pipe smoke, mahogany, and oak suffused with warm beams of golden amber and dusted with pale sandalwood.
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All Souls’ Day (Hedwig Cemetery) Perfume Oil
Add to cartFranz 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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An Angel Leading a Soul Into Hell Perfume Oil
Add to cartHieronymous Bosch
A tarterian conflagration of red musk, mimosa, scorched leather, Halfeti rose, and king mandarin aflame with red pepper, daemonorops draco, red amber, patchouli ash, pimento berry, cardamom, and tobacco.
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Apple Tree I Perfume Oil
Add to cartGustav Klimt
Sun-warmed ripe red apples and a smattering of wildflowers.
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Bodegón Con Cesto de Frutas, Melocotones, Granadas Y Bernegal Perfume Oil
Add to cartJuan de Zurbarán
Peaches, pomegranates, black figs, baked red clay, and cacao spiced with chili peppers and sweetened with honey.
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Cemetery in the Moonlight Perfume Oil
Add to cartCarl 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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Faun Einer Amsel Zupfeifend Perfume Oil
Add to cartFaun einer Amsel zupfeifend
Arnold Bocklin
A musky, sensual balsamic amber reclining on a bed of dandelions, mock strawberry, and wild grasses with a flutter of feathery black vetiver and a splotch of ink.
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Frugiferas Auruis Aestas Perfume Oil
Add to cartPieter van der Heyden
Newly-scythed hay and spiced ale.
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Idyll Perfume Oil
Add to cartFrederic Leighton
Luminous and serene: a soft breeze of sun-kissed neroli passing over a lush bouquet of honeysuckle, osmanthus, tea rose, vanilla chiffon, and gleaming amber. -
L’Yerres, effet de pluie Perfume Oil
Add to cartGustave Caillebotte
Horse chestnut leaves, rain-kissed, drift gently on the moss-green river’s flow.
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Morning Follows Night Perfume Oil
Add to cartNicolaes Berchem
Bourbon vanilla, tonka bean, raw cacao, and patchouli root illuminated by yellow bergamot, lemon rind, and white amber.
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Satan Presiding at the Infernal Council Perfume Oil
Add to cartJohn Martin
Black musk, frankincense, leather, black pepper, incense smoke, ebony, angelica root, and a splash of Stygian fougere.
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The Kiss of the Sphinx Perfume Oil
Add to cartFranz 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 Stuff that Dreams are Made Of Perfume Oil
Add to cartJohn Anster Fitzgerald
A hypnotic summer reverie: gilded vanilla and coconut milk in a swirl of tuberose, wild jasmine, almond blossom, apricot rind, pomegranate brocade, and crystalline poppy.
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The Sun in His Wrath Perfume Oil
Add to cartWilliam Blake
Searing amber and Oman frankincense with champaca, bay laurel, and red mimosa.
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Vision Perfume Oil
Add to cartCarolus-Duran
Scarlet silk, peonies, pink rose petals, neroli, woodmoss, clove bud, carnation cream, and skin musk. -
Woman in Front of the Setting Sun Perfume Oil
Add to cartCaspar David Friedrich
Five ambers fading in descending radiance.
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Woman Putting on her Stocking Perfume Oil
Add to cartHenri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Skin musk and silk with a whisper of tonka, coffee bean, and russet amber.