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!
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
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
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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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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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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. -
Morieris Perfume Oil
Add to cartHans Memling
A rictus grin of white sandalwood, toasted cedar, tonka bean, cacao, and palo santo. -
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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Tar Papering (Crows) Perfume Oil
Add to cartAndrew Wyeth
White sandalwood, orris root, ambergris, vetiver root, cardamom, white cedar, and black pepper. -
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 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
Add to cartCarolus-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.