Perfume

Perfume is a product by the Institute for New Feeling, an artist collective including Scott Andrew, Nina Sarnelle, and Agnes Bolt.

Working with Le Jardin Essential--a massive community garden in Brussels, Belgium--we created a line of complex scents that bring together contrasting details of the social, psychological & physical environment around the garden. Each fragrance centers around one herb grown in the garden, and then builds around that molecule a network of human or urban additives derived from our research in the area. Above is an installation view of the final perfumes; below is an ingredient list for the 6 scents developed in collaboration with the Institute for Art & Olfaction (Los Angeles).

• hit song: wintergreen, waffle batter lip gloss, bandaid, nail glue, cheap tank top, air conditioning, chlorine.
• wifi: tarragon, burnt electrical cable, energy drink, mom’s shampoo, pomme frite slathered in sauce gribiche, bike ride at night.
• contagion: thyme, oak and ash tree, bluberry donut vape juice, cat yawn, flock of parakeets in winter, sweaty volleyball players.
• privacy: cumin, cement, lubricated condom, new lumber, breath, wet sweater, crisis in the bathroom at foret national.
• stray: dandelion, dog, found wallet, methamphetamine, sleeping bag, children yelling, airplane exhaust.