Blow-Up

A moment somewhere between
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CINEMA


An olfactive response to Blow-Up (1966), Michelangelo Antonioni's meditation on perception and reality in swinging London. This fragrance translates a specific scene where a fashion photographer's accidental documentation of a murder dissolves into uncertainty and abstraction. Part of FOLIE's Le Cinéma Olfactif—scent as duration, extending moments that would otherwise pass unnoticed.

summary: RESINOUS, WOODY, LEATHER.
MATERIALS: absinthe, saffron, cassis, currant buds, cardamom, incense, cypriol oil, myrrh, cedar needles, chinese cedar, woody notes, leather, amber, labdanum, civet and birch.


»Looking for myself in an antique shop, finding myself in a dark room. Through dusty hallways, aged carpets, drying oil paint. Another joint—snap, snap. Another body—snap, snap. The tennis of reality versus fantasy.«
FÀP Catalogues · cinema

Blow-Up

Le Cinéma Olfactif

Director — Michelangelo Antonioni
Perfumer — Mark Buxton
Medium — Film
Status — Resting in Archive

04 / 2015

Series Statement

Minutes become moments. Frames become fragrance.

Le Cinéma Olfactif is not smell-o-vision. It is attention made aromatic. The scent tells you what to feel, what you might have missed.

Evocative, not illustrative. Fear rather than smoke. Absence rather than presence.

Not the explosion. Not the kiss.

Something quieter. Something true.

Launched in Berlin, 2014. Still going.

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