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!
January 2024 Art Series: Maybe January Light
Maybe January light will consume
My heart with its cruel
Ray, stealing my key to true calm.
– Pablo Neruda
February Art Series: Have I not Reason to Lament?
I heard a thousand blended notes,
While in a grove I sate reclined,
In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts
Bring sad thoughts to the mind.
– Wordsworth
March Art Collection: The Wind Blows Cold
It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.
― Charles Dickens
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A Winter’s Scene with Skaters Near a Castle Perfume Oil
Add to cartHendrick Avercamp
Snow-covered stroopwafels, ice-rimed brown leaves, and a swish of boot leather.
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Dreamer of Dreams Perfume Oil
Add to cartEdmund Dulac
Lavender absolute, indigo champaca, Hojari frankincense, cananga flower, agarwood, soft mosses, labdanum absolute, twilight sandalwood, Bengali oud, lime rind, and a drop of cacao absolute.
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Falling Star Perfume Oil
Add to cartWitold Pruszkowski
Incandescent, glittering musks, pearls of sweet Florentine iris, and an indigo sigh of blue cypress, Italian bergamot, pink jasmine, cistus, white amber, mimosa, and black lilies.
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Galanthus Nivalis, Single Snowdrop Perfume Oil
Add to cartMary Delany
The season’s first snowdrop, stark white and spring green against a backdrop of black ink and myrrh resin.
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In unserm Brunnen ist ein Nix Perfume Oil
Add to cartR.M. Eichler
River reeds, fen violets, water lilies, starfruit, wild berries, lily of the valley, and climbing roses.
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Les Passades Perfume Oil
Add to cartAubrey Beardsley
A heady swish of black velvet patchouli, ambre noir, silken musk, and bourbon vanilla.
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Monastery Garden in the Snow Perfume Oil
Add to cartCarl Friedrich Lessing
Curls of monastic incense, moss-stained stone, snow-laden cypress, medicinal herbs buried deep in winter soil, and glittering icicles splintering from a gargoyle’s frozen scream. -
Northern Lights Perfume Oil
Add to cartTom Thomson
Ambergris foam, twinkling white musk, lime rind, frosted lemon, Norway spruce, sour green apple, night-blooming jasmine, Icelandic moss, and yellow bergamot. -
Nyx, Night Goddess Perfume Oil
Add to cartGustave Moreau
Goddess of phantoms and of shadowy play, whose drowsy pow’r divides the nat’ral day: ink-black opoponax absolute, glittering amber, caramelized oud, black styrax, and Oman frankincense.
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Portrait of Princess Marthe Bibesco Perfume Oil
Add to cartGiovanni Boldini
Toffee-touched vanilla bourbon filigree, antiqued white rose petals, auburn musk, honey dust, and white silk. -
The Decadents Perfume Oil
Add to cartHarry Clarke
Lilac cologne and luscious blackcurrant, blonde tobacco, laburnum petals, and sugared absinthe.
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The Demonaic Perfume Oil
Add to cartJoseph Middeleer
An infernal prayer: black poppy absolute, dried rose petals, opoponax, black labdanum, kyphi smoke, and honeyed oud.
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The Storm Perfume Oil
Add to cartPierre-Auguste Cot
Rain-dappled moss, golden silk, and sheer, gossamer vanilla.
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Traum Perfume Oil
Add to cartPaul Herrmann
Blackened lavender and sensual rivulets of labdanum with Oman frankincense and raw cacao. -
Treasure Perfume Oil
Add to cartNorman Lindsay
A mermaid’s delight: pearlescent orris butter, polished coral, lilac-blushed choya nakh, ambergris foam, osmanthus petals, salt-crusted driftwood, honey dust, white grapefruit peel, cerulean musk, golden flecks of sea-speckled amber, and bittersweet mimosa.