Art Info

COAL Perfume,
Sissel Tolaas 2011


Materials: COAL Perfume, extracted from the deepest mine of the North Pole.

 

Dimensions: 75ml

 


Limited Edition of 10

 

Scent artist Sissel Tolaas pushes the boundaries of the olfactory sense, inverting our preconceptions of how things should smell, how things can smell, and what a scent can say. With COAL Tolaas created a wearable perfume made from coal extracted from the deepest mine in the North Pole. Tolaas' perfume evokes a strange sense of deceit: the bottled Essence Absolue of fired carbon opposes our expectation of a floral fragrance, drawing allusions to the olfactory alchemy of Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, antihero of Patrick Suskind's Perfume

 


£200 (Excludes VAT)

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