COAL Perfume
Sissel Tolaas 2011
From the exhibition Practice to Deceive: Smoke & Mirrors in Fashion, Fine Art and Film
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.
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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
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