The Great
Beauty

A moment somewhere between
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CINEMA


An olfactive response to The Great Beauty (2013), Paolo Sorrentino's opulent meditation on art, aging, and the search for meaning in contemporary Rome. This fragrance translates a specific moment, where decadent beauty masks existential emptiness in the Eternal City's night. Part of FOLIE's Le Cinéma Olfactif—scent as duration, extending moments that would otherwise pass unnoticed.

summary: AROMATIC-FOUGÈRE, INCENSE, LAVENDER
MATERIALS. petit grain paraguay, mandarin badiane badiane, lavender, myrtle, vetiver, tonka bean, oak moss.


»Once sophisticated, now old and vulgar. Memories of you, life in tatters. Another drink, another terrace. Who are you? Who am I? Nobody.«
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La Grande Bellezza

Le Cinéma Olfactif

Director — Paolo Sorrentino
Perfumer — Lucas Sieuzac
Medium — Film
Status — Resting in Archive

02 / 2018

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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Le Cinéma Olfactif
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