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!
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
September Art: Never Regret Thy Fall
Never regret thy fall,
O Icarus of the fearless flight
For the greatest tragedy of them all
Is never to feel the burning light.
– Oscar Wilde
October Art: Lies and Bribes and Dead Men’s Bones
There is a wall of which the stones
Are lies and bribes and dead men’s bones.
And wrongfully this evil wall
Denies what all men made for all,
And shamelessly this wall surrounds
Our homesteads and our native grounds.
– Hilaire Belloc
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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
Out of StockOdilon 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
Out of StockFelix Edouard Vallotton
Beams of citrus, apricot, raspberry musk, and neroli herald daybreak, illuminating ambergris and myrrh shadows. -
Eros Scolded by Aphrodite Perfume Oil
Out of StockJosé 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
Out of StockYosa 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
Out of StockGiacomo 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. -
Statue of Freedom Perfume Oil
Add to cartThomas Crawford
A bronze chypre with molten amber, gleaming myrrh, and a hint of laurel leaf. -
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 Anarchy Perfume Oil
Add to cartJoseph Mallord William Turner
Shattered amber tears, smoked saffron, burnt sugar, myrrh, brown leather, peru balsam, vetiver, and ash. -
The Fall of Phaëthon Perfume Oil
Out of StockPeter 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
Out of StockBrynolf 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 Uprising Perfume Oil
Add to cartHonoré Daumier
Volatile, earthy, and defiant: dusty leather, tobacco leaf, clove bud, green patchouli, and black pepper. -
The Woman Clothed with the Sun and the War in Heaven Perfume Oil
Out of StockFrom 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. -
We Owe Allegiance to no Crown Perfume Oil
Add to cartJohn A. Woodside
The scent of jubilant freedom, endurance, and justice: juniper berry, oakmoss, ti leaf, terebinth, lemon peel, neroli, white amber, black cherry, pink pepper, and orange brandy.