The Virgin
Suicides

A moment somewhere between
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CINEMA


An olfactive response to The Virgin Suicides (1999), Sofia Coppola's dreamlike elegy to adolescent longing and suburban mystery. This fragrance translates a specific moment where five sisters exist as objects of desire and subjects of tragedy in 1970s Michigan. Created for FOLIE's ongoing Cinema investigation—translating moving image into scent memory.

»Red lipstick, signed panties, glitter powder—the rites of becoming. Then silence: an empty home and porcelain saints forgotten by prayer.«
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The Virgin Suicides

Le Cinéma Olfactif

Director — Sofia Coppola
Perfumer — Mark Buxton
Medium — Film
Status — Resting in Archive

10 / 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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