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FÀP ESSAYS · PROFILE
09 / 2022

CAESURA

Artist — Ocean Vuong
Perfumer — Géraldine Ignesta
Medium — Literature
Status — Available

»Death and life happening
side by side«

In conversation with Folie, Ocean Vuong spoke of scent as a marker of decay and rebirth occurring side by side — especially in New England, where spring screams into being while tobacco dies and cures. His olfactive memories are inseparable from labor and ritual: scrubbing incense stains from ceilings when moving apartments, drugstore perfume before the welfare office, a fire made to welcome someone home. The fragrance translates this confluence — nothing competes, everything elevates.

CLEAN · SPICY · WOODY INCENSE


MATERIALS
pink berries, bergamot, incense, saffron, cinnamon, cumin, sage, hay, styrax pyrogène, cedar, vetiver, sandalwood, oakwood, birch


Each bottle carries its own artwork. Request a preference at checkout.
Arrives in its handcrafted box from Hokkaido.

Read our conversation with Ocean Vuong. → INTERVIEW
Prefer to begin smaller? → DISCOVERY
The full story lives in the archive. → ARCHIVE



FÀP ESSAYS · PROFILE
09 / 2022

CAESURA

Artist — Ocean Vuong
Perfumer — Géraldine Ignesta
Medium — Literature
Status — Available

»Death and life happening
side by side«

In conversation with Folie, Ocean Vuong spoke of scent as a marker of decay and rebirth occurring side by side — especially in New England, where spring screams into being while tobacco dies and cures. His olfactive memories are inseparable from labor and ritual: scrubbing incense stains from ceilings when moving apartments, drugstore perfume before the welfare office, a fire made to welcome someone home. The fragrance translates this confluence — nothing competes, everything elevates.

CLEAN · SPICY · WOODY INCENSE


MATERIALS
pink berries, bergamot, incense, saffron, cinnamon, cumin, sage, hay, styrax pyrogène, cedar, vetiver, sandalwood, oakwood, birch


Each bottle carries its own artwork. Request a preference at checkout.
Arrives in its handcrafted box from Hokkaido.

Read our conversation with Ocean Vuong. → INTERVIEW
Prefer to begin smaller? → DISCOVERY
The full story lives in the archive. → ARCHIVE

 
 
 

Ocean Vuong is the author of bestselling poetry collection "Time is a Mother" and novel "On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous," translated into 37 languages. A 2019 MacArthur "Genius" Grant recipient, his acclaimed poetry collection "Night Sky with Exit Wounds" won multiple prestigious awards including the T.S. Eliot Prize. His honors include fellowships from the Lannan Foundation, Civitella Ranieri Foundation, Elizabeth George Foundation, Academy of American Poets, and the Pushcart Prize.