Love
Exposure

A moment somewhere between
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CINEMA


An olfactive response to Love Exposure (2008), Sion Sono's four-hour epic on obsession, faith, and family. This fragrance translates a specific moment, where religious fervor collides with sexual awakening in contemporary Tokyo. Part of FOLIE's Le Cinéma Olfactif—scent as duration, extending moments that would otherwise pass unnoticed.

summary: FLORAL, ANIMALIC, INCENSE.
MATERIALS: ambergris, vanilla., bay oil, cassis, costus, cumin oil, encens, jasmine sambac, magnolia flowers, musk, neroli oil, sandalwood, ylang.

»Delicate, but deviant. Holy, yet defiled. The sacred and profane. Soft florals, metallic blood, the incense of devotion. Love as wound, wound as worship.«
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Love Exposure

Le Cinéma Olfactif

Director — Sion Sono
Perfumer — Mark Buxton
Medium — Film
Status — Resting in Archive

06 / 2014

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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