Broken
Embraces

A moment somewhere between
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CINEMA


An olfactive response to Broken Embraces (2009), Pedro Almodóvar's noir romance entangling cinema, jealousy, and blindness. This fragrance translates a specific moment, where a director's past returns through fragments of a lost film and a dangerous love affair. Part of FOLIE's Le Cinéma Olfactif—scent as duration, extending moments that would otherwise pass unnoticed.

summary: FLORAL, ANIMALIC, BALSAMIC.
MATERIALS: red lipstick accord, ginger, muguet, turkish rose, night blooming jasmine, balsam, patchouli, animalic accord.

»Say you love me like I love you. Flowers of love decay, sweet talk becomes bitter. Sick of being good – relationships scratched from memory.«
FÀP Catalogues · Cinema

Broken Embraces

Le Cinéma Olfactif

Director — Pedro Almodóvar
Perfumer — Nathalie Benareau
Medium — Film
Status — Resting in Archive

11 / 2016

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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