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.
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.
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