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!
July Art: Dreaming as the Summers Die
Thy home is all around,
Sweet summer child of light and air,
Like God’s own presence, felt, ne’er found,
A Spirit everywhere!
– James Staunton Babcock
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
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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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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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Ezekiel’s Vision of God Perfume Oil
Add to cartBerard Picart
Be not afraid: globules of white coconut beaming through blinding white amber and Oman frankincense.
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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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Mouse Perfume Oil
Add to cartShibata Zeshin
Golden hay, vanilla bean, toasted amber, hazelnuts, white carnation petals, and cream.
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Summer’s Death Tune Perfume Oil
Add to cartJohn Butler Yeats
Crackling, dry grasses, pale cedarwood, bone-yellow sandalwood, uprooted mandrake, a tangle of patchouli, and the smoke of distant bonfires.
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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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Twin Stars Perfume Oil
Add to cartLuis Ricardo Valero
Incandescent lemon rind, apple wine, and Calabrian bergamot gleaming through velvety blue lavender, black cashmere, Laotian oud, and deep, rich, 2-year aged patchouli.
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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.