Mood
Indigo

A moment somewhere between
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CINEMA


An olfactive response to Mood Indigo (2013), Michel Gondry's surrealist adaptation of Boris Vian's novel. This fragrance translates a specific moment, where love, music, and melancholy intertwine in Gondry's handmade, dreamlike Paris. Part of FOLIE's Le Cinéma Olfactif—scent as duration, extending moments that would otherwise pass unnoticed.

summary: FRESH, WOODY, SPICY, INCENSE.
MATERIALS: chamomile, red pepper, geranium, water lily, musk, incense, cedar, sandalwood, amber, patchouli.


»When eyes first meet, this could be love. The quiet before the storm—what blossoms in the chest becomes the thing that kills.«
FÀP Catalogues · cinema

Mood Indigo

Le Cinéma Olfactif

Director — Michel Gondry
Perfumer — Mark Buxton
Medium — Film
Status — Resting in Archive

04 / 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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