Greek creative person Alexandros of Antioch put a spate of thought into the expression and physicality of the goddess of love when sculpture theVenus de Milo . He may have spend less time thinking about how his subject smelled , but 2000 years afterwards , a team of perfumer are doing that caper for him . AsArtnet Newsreports , the Louvre museum in Paris has engage the smell geniuses atL’Officine Universelle Bulyto evolve fragrance for some its famous piece of work of art .
Eight perfumer from the French fragrancy ship’s company were given free kitchen range to concoct a scent that conjure their favorite items in the Louvre ’s aggregation without worrying about toll or ingredients . Winged triumph of Samothrace , amarble sculpturethat depict the Grecian goddess Nike , apparently smell like white tuberose blossom and woody myrrh . Jean - Auguste - Dominique Ingres ’s 1808 paintingThe Batherwas match with olfactory property of lavender , orange blossom , and neroli oil colour . ForSaint Joseph Charpentier , which shows St. Joseph drill a piece of woodwind with a young Jesus , the perfumer select centre ofverbena and cedar tree .
Ramdane Touhami , one of the cofounder of L’Officine Universelle Buly , toldAFP , " It is about adding an olfactory attribute to a optic experience . I chose eight perfumers , all asterisk and gift them 100 pct exemption , with no terminal point on their budget . "
In add-on to the works mentioned above , fragrance have been make for Thomas Gainsborough’sConversation in a Park , Ingres’sLa Grande Odalisque , Jean - Honoré Fragonard’sThe Bolt , and Lorenzo Bartolini’sNymph With Scorpion . Every fragrance will be available to purchase in a pop - up shop near the Louvre from July 3 through January 2020 .
Creating a perfume that conjure up art without a scent may seem tricky , but it ’s been done before . There areseveral perfumesinspired by works of literature , includingGame of Thrones .
[ h / tArtnet News ]
