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!
June Art: Why that Sound of Woe?
Sweet Zephyr! why that sound of woe?
Is not thy home among the flowers?
Do not the bright June roses blow,
To meet thy kiss at morning hours?
– William Cullen Bryant
July Art: I am but Summer to your Heart
I know I am but summer to your heart, and not the full four seasons of the year.
– Edna St. Vincent Millay
August Art: Me Myself in the Summer Heaven Godlike
Others taunt me with having knelt at well-curbs
Always wrong to the light, so never seeing
Deeper down in the well than where the water
Gives me back in a shining surface picture
Me myself in the summer heaven godlike
Looking out of a wreath of fern and cloud puffs
– Robert Frost
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A Dance to the Music of Time Perfume Oil
Add to cartNicolas Poussin
Golden apricot, honeyed fig, and grape must spill over with laughter, garlanded in rose, orange blossom, and laurel cavort in a jubilant whirl. Saffron, nutmeg and allspice embedded in amber and frankincense gleam like sun-dappled jewels. -
Angst Perfume Oil
Out of StockEdvard Munch
Copoiba balsam and sour rhubarb churning with fir needle, blackcurrant bud, red grapefruit, red ginger, pepperwood, and olibanum.
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Apollo’s Chariot Perfume Oil
Add to cartOdilon Redon
Light, motion, and divine radiance. A transcendent perfume, brilliant bursts of solar glory in a haze of celestial grace. Golden neroli and amber with heliotrope, osmanthus absolute, pink pepper, and white myrrh and a triumphant gallop of mallow and honey-tinged sandalwood. -
Ceaselessly By My Side the Demon Stirs Perfume Oil
Add to cartOdilon Redon
Smoked tonka bean, vetiver root, white patchouli, oolong tea, hazy, muted brown amber, and vanilla husk. -
Circe Transforming Odysseus’ Men into Swine Perfume Oil
Add to cartHans Nikolaj Hansen
Fig leaf absolute, wild marjoram, labdanum, spiced honey, scorched olive wood, bay laurel, swine musk, and honeyed wine.
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Coucher de Soleil, Ciel Orange Perfume Oil
Add to cartFelix Edouard Vallotton
Beams of citrus, apricot, raspberry musk, and neroli herald daybreak, illuminating ambergris and myrrh shadows. -
Eros Scolded by Aphrodite Perfume Oil
Add to cartJosé de Madrazo y Agudo
White and red roses, a blood-touched thorn, and a sprig of myrtle.
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Kite and two Crows Perfume Oil
Add to cartYosa Buson
Rain-soaked leaves, lightning-struck wood, gleaming black myrrh, smoked cedar, hinoki, and black tea.
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Landscape with Stars Perfume Oil
Add to cartHenri-Edmond Cross
A fragrance of celestial revelry: the galaxy whirling in ecstatic fragments of light, joy caught mid-orbit. An effervescent constellation of scent: dazzling points of neroli and sugared lemon flashing like meteors. Electric ozone and crystalline lavender swirl in radiant arcs, luminous as a comet’s tail, with golden heliotrope and night-blooming jasmine stardust. -
Mercurio Transita Davanti Al Sole Perfume Oil
Add to cartGiacomo Balla
Speed and light translated through divine geometry: quicksilver and chrome musk blaze through bergamot, French lavender, white frankincense, blood orange, blue lilac, tangerine, yuzu, and cubeb. -
Stilleven Met Bijbel Perfume Oil
Add to cartVincent Van Gogh
Cracked leather and faded ink, dust-heavy pages steeped in echoes of prayer. Beeswax candles gutter in the shadows, their pale, amber light feebly holding back the dark. Low murmurs of frankincense and oakmoss anchor the stern hush of eternity. -
The Fall of Phaëthon Perfume Oil
Add to cartPeter Paul Rubens
Hubris shattered: roiling incense clouds of divine fury, scorched leather, smears of labdanum and golden pitch, bitter almond, smoldering black amber, and naiad’s tears. -
The Serenade Perfume Oil
Add to cartBrynolf Wennerberg
A briny ballad sung by crustacean troubadour: salt-crusted red currant and driftwood strumming cheery chords of ambergris, orange blossom, and bubbly bergamot-squeezed pink grapefruit.
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The Woman Clothed with the Sun and the War in Heaven Perfume Oil
Add to cartFrom a 13th century Manuscript of the Apocalypse
Celestial drama. Radiant pomegranate crowned with golden amber and saffron, a waft of singed frankincense, and velvet black cherry.
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Veronica’s Veil Perfume Oil
Add to cartOskar Kokoschka
Crimson musk, sacramental wine, iron oxide, saffron threads, stained linen, and frankincense. -
Vzdor – Perfume Oil
Add to cartFrantišek Kupka
Opoponax, ebony, and black galbanum cast black shadows across mineralic amber and glittering sand.