Story

Carmen Rose is an olfactory artist who uses scent to celebrate, honor, and eulogize the people and places that move her. Working with a palette of pure botanical ingredients—seeds, fruit essences, flowers, bark, fossilized resins, leaves, grasses, mosses, roots, and minerals—she creates invisible portraits that capture the essence of people, places, and ideas beyond the visual realm. To compliment her olfactory art Carmen has studied natural perfumery for many years including with Mandy Aftel of Aftelier, one of the preeminent and most respected natural perfumers of our age.

Bespoke

Carmen crafts bespoke olfactory portraits that capture the essence of an individual, memory, or meaningful place. The process begins with an in-depth consultation to explore your aromatic preferences and olfactory vision. Drawing from her palette of over 300 rare botanical ingredients, Carmen composes a series of fragrance studies, refining and adjusting until the perfect aromatic expression emerges.

Classes

In these immersive workshops, participants explore the profound connection between scent and memory while learning the fundamentals of fragrance composition. Under Carmen's guidance, students learn to structure a perfume through hands-on experimentation with botanical ingredients, crafting a sophisticated personal scent that reflects their inner world. Participants depart with 'a memory in a bottle': a unique, custom perfume they've blended by hand and an Aftelier Natural Perfume Wheel which organizes essential oils, absolutes, and natural isolates into their respective scent families.

Experiences

Carmen creates custom olfactory experiences for events, installations, and artistic, and brand collaborations. Her expertise in perfumery allows her to design unique scent experiences that engage audiences in unexpected ways, whether through interactive installations, sensory performances, or environmental fragrancing. Each project is thoughtfully developed to complement and elevate the overall creative vision.

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