Description
“Oeilleres L’Objet Parfumant is articulated around an anti-flower, half green, half animal. “Anti-flower” because I want to echo the flowers that I photograph without mentioning one in particular. With Marc-Antoine Corticchiato we therefore excluded the rose, the jasmine, etc. All these flowers too concrete. And it is partly thanks to chamomile and broom that we managed to capture the general idea with their facets of dried flowers, pollen and honey.
To refer to the figures I photograph, another of my wishes was to approach the aspect of the flesh. For this we have searched for the animality in the vegetable notes, as well as in different spices and resins.
It was not an end in itself, but the fragrance is loaded with natural raw materials – sometimes pushed to extremes – and will express all the better the organic duality of my images.
Between the delicacy of a petal on the decline and the radicality of a fold of skin.
The Fragrance Object is a limited edition of five hundred pieces created under my artistic direction by French “nose” Marc-Antoine Corticchiato, and is based on a half-green, half-animal anti-flower.” – a note from the brand.
Oeilleres L’Objet Parfumant was launched in 2018.
Butikov – :
I just received my bottle of this little masterpiece, a truly original work of olfactory art.
The expression of “anti-flower” really makes sense here as the scent is floral without representing a specific type of flower. Instead it’s the representation of the whole spectrum of a flower; earth, growth, blossom, withering and decay.
This turns Oeilleres int a highly conceptual and philosophical piece of art; a thought provoking and associative fragrance that portrays the fragile being of a flower in the perspective of our own human flesh.
Oeilleres starts off with a herbal blast of chamomile, a touch of eucalyptus and a distant lavender. Quickly it transforms by letting hay and cumin notes take centre stage, but it never turns sweaty, thanks to the earthy contributions of the mushroom and pollen notes.
Eventually a mighty styrax takes over, lending a leathery aspect to the composition.
All the way through the drydown Oeilleres transforms and morphs with my skin, all while it stays true to it’s conceptual foundation. It keeps conveying its story, expressing something about humanity, which is what I love about this level of perfumery. I can’t compare it to anything, it takes its own sovereign position in the span between classics a la Caron (Narcisse Noir and Fleurs de Rocaille come to mind) and avant-garde perfume art.
Superbly done, Roberto Greco and Marc-Antoine Corticchiato, BRAVO!