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“They were rooms of that country order which fascinate our sense of smell with the countless odours springing from their own special virtues, wisdom, habits, a whole secret system of life, invisible, superabundant and profoundly moral, which their atmosphere holds in solution; smells natural enough indeed, and coloured by circumstances as are those of the neighbouring countryside, but already humanised, domesticated, confined, an exquisite, skilful, limpid jelly, blending all the fruits of the season which have left the orchard for the store-room, smells changing with the year, but plenishing, domestic smells, which compensate for the sharpness of hoar frost with the sweet savour of warm bread, smells lazy and punctual as a village clock, roving smells, pious smells; rejoicing in a peace which brings only an increase of anxiety, and in a prosiness which serves as a deep source of poetry to the stranger who passes through their midst without having lived amongst them. The air of those rooms was saturated with the fine bouquet of a silence so nourishing, so succulent that I could not enter them without a sort of greedy enjoyment.”

Marcel Proust, Swann’s Way, 1913

MANIFESTO

It is the scent that makes it home. This is therefore not a time for show, but for everyday perfume. Inhabit your home fully and furnish it with your tastes and your fragrant imagination. The scent must reflect the image of the inhabitants, be them bold or delicate.Olfactory architecture is an intimate and ephemeral structure. Each season has its own olfactory identity, each day its own fragrant mood. Likewise, when it comes to perfuming your home, gesture is of utmost importance: the crackle of a flame, the opening of a porcelain container, the flick of a match, the click of a light switch, and lastly, the silence of a pencil... all so many gestures that perfume with precision and elegance enhancing the pleasure of being at home.

Just like an invisible boundary to be crossed, the interior fragrance differs from that of the exterior. The perfumed home becomes the ultimate landmark of
intimacy. First of all, it is entirely yours, and enables you to quickly surrender
to the charm and comfort of your own home. It is the scent that makes it home.

“Another way to take up more space is with perfume.”
Andy Warhol, From A to B and Back Again: The Philosophy of Andy Warhol, 1975

The hallway… and its Aomori Hiba wood

Isn’t the first impression always the right one? As soon as you step off the landing, Aomori Hiba, this gem of fragrant woods, releases its light cedar-like, lemony scent, soothing the mind and providing a sense of well-being.

Use: Aomori hiba is not overwhelming. It can easily perfume the air in a small room. These shavings can be placed in a bowl or slipped into a shoe drawer with malice to subtly purify the atmosphere.

SCENTED WOOD

The living room… and its Scented Candle

What could be more vibrant than a dancing candle flame? Carved in marble and topped with a bell, the Buly-stamped candle “glass” is a sumptuous, long-lasting object that recalls the splendour of antique vases. It is just as precious as the wax it contains: made exclusively from plant-based ingredients, it is soft, natural
and completely harmless. It is in the living room, the parlour, the place that houses our conversations where the Scented candle has its rightful place!

Use: there is no point in letting this candle burn for hours on end. Better extinguish it once the top layer of wax has become liquid: the fragrance is then at its best. And, when it is time to say goodbye, your marble pot can be transformed, at your leisure and according to your inspiration, into a purse, vase or pencil pot.

SCENTED CANDLES

The ballroom… and its Mount Athos incense

The small size of these fragrant resins in no way detracts from their great perfuming power. Mount Athos incense is ideal to perfume large rooms and other receptions. For centuries, it has been used in burning preparations for services and prayer. Essential precept: if you can scent an abbey, you can scent a closet.

Use: endowed with intense fragrance, the incense can be burnt over charcoal. To burn them to perfection, you need to wait a minute until the lit charcoal has taken on a grey appearance, before depositing the grains of resin. Marvellously scented, they become a simple potpourri when placed in a little bowl.

SCENTED RESINS

The office… and its Scented Decorative Pencils

Every office has its own worker. Some like their office neat and tidy, others prefer it to be messy and creative, in order to elicit the call for rigour or imagination, as need be. In any case, a perfumed atmosphere leads to productivity. These four scented pencils evidently fit into a... pencil pot. Compared to their non-scented counterparts, these four pencils will go unnoticed by sight, but certainly not by scent.

Use: the gesture is simple, the scent majestic. Simply dip the lead of the ceramic pencil into the concentrated home perfume. Turn the vial upside down and soak the pencil, before placing it in its jar in the corner of a desk or a writing table.

SCENTED PENCILS

The kitchen… and its Palo Santo wood

The kitchen must not suffer from an over-intoxicating fragrance, because taste buds and the sense of smell need to remain alert when preparing and tasting food. Enshrouded with hints of lemon, spices, mint and even aniseed, the
woody fragrance of Palo Santo wood, is in no way artificial and blends
perfectly with the aromatic notes of the room.Renowned in shamanic tradition for “cleansing the soul”, this wood, purifies the atmosphere as it burns. It deodorises, wards off negative energy and balances the mood.

Use: light the stick by holding one end to the flame while turning it gently. Wait a few seconds for the fire to take hold and then blow it out. A splendid white smoke will rise from the red embers, releasing its unique, soothing perfume. Palo Santo is a dense wood that extinguishes easily, so this ritual can be repeated several times.

SCENTED WOOD

The bedroom… and its Fragrant Lantern

Better perfume the bedroom to enter the world of dreams more easily.To this end, the Officine invented the Fragrant Lantern, instilling the idea that refinement comes as much from the scent of the atmosphere as from the way it is diffused. A parallel between practicality and interior decoration, it is an astonishing object that uses the ingenious heat of a light bulb to diffuse the waxed contents of a scented candle, in complete safety. It is the guardian of good taste and of your…fragrant light.

Use: this luminaire will fascinate any interior, but is not suitable for outdoor use. Avoid using it in damp rooms or bathrooms. Make sure you never light the candle wick. Light and flame do not get on well together.

The dressing room… and its Scented Metal Box

This small, home fragrance takes flight wherever it hangs: in the lair of a wardrobe, in the passenger compartment of a car, on the door handle of a boudoir... There are many places that this metal box perfumes brilliantly. Its presence is reminiscent of the well-known design of its elder cousin, the Eau Triple.

Use: unscrew the cap, place the funnel around the neck of the bottle and pour in half the scented beads. Close the vial. When it is time to revive the fragrance, simply turn the vial upside down like an hourglass and repeat the exercise three times. The fragrance hangs in the air and is quite surprising...

SUSPENDED FRAGRANCE

The drawer… and its Universal Potpourri 


In the manner of our ancestors, potpourri can be cleverly placed on a bedside table, dressing table or writing desk when it is not slipped, dressed up in its pouch, into the nightwear or hosiery drawer.

Use: protected in its fabric pouch, the Universal Potpourri can be placed directly in a dresser drawer to scent the surrounding linen.

POTPOURRI

The bathroom… and its Alabaster

The blue painted white porcelain is a perfect match for the marmoreal allure of earthenware. At the neck of a sink or near a bathtub, the Alabaster has great perfuming power, without heat or steam. Its name is inspired by the Greek vases that were used to collect and preserve perfumed oils used for body care – the first perfumes – and whose porous terracotta retained the delicious scents.

Use: this particularly absorbent stone enables the scented essence to be diffused effectively. Pour a third of the perfume concentrate with care onto the stone and leave the pretty blue box ajar to let the scent diffuse naturally.

SCENTED STONES

The water-closets… and its Scented Matches

The Scented Matches are another way of elegantly and rapidly perfuming the atmosphere. The deodorising power of matches has been proven for centuries, especially for purifying the atmosphere in water-closets, harmlessly. With a single gesture, they provide the air in the small room with a fresh scent. As they ignite, they are a fragrant prelude to the perfumes of the Scented Candles that they conveniently light.

Use: the trick is to let it burn as long as possible by holding it with your fingertips or by artfully placing it in a small cup so that you can enjoy its fragrant smoke until it is extinguished.

SCENTED MATCHES

A perfumed home is a daily delight

“Perfuming your home is an exercise in style that enhances the art of living and lifts up the moods of its inhabitants and visitors. Both trivial and essential, my first use is to tame familiar smells. The second is to accentuate the allure of a décor by choosing the right scent for the atmosphere of a room. In the Officines, the collection of home fragrances is generous, so as to respect the singular tastes and inclinations of each person. This perfumed know-how is deployed through different tools: candles, wood, alabasters, matches and incense. A quest for olfactory architecture to be undertaken in our lives with the same panache as the aristocrats of the imperial court of Heian, in 11th century Japan, who engaged in scent tournaments by mixing incense, aromatics and fragrant woods. Imagining the perfume of a room as you would imagine a skin perfume, that you choose for yourself, is for me the ultimate, immaterial touch in interior decoration. Each room has its own scent, an olfactory identity that silently lines the walls. Elisabeth de Feydeau splendidly writes: “In Islamic civilisation, beauty is breathed and breathing gives life”. This Arab tradition of wood and incense fumigations in hospitality rituals, the ancestors of our scented candles, reflects the universal desire to share beauty. Perfuming your home is an intimate ritual and a sign of olfactory hospitality. Welcoming others kindly means sharing intimacy. An exquisitely scented home is a way of life for yourself and for others.”

Victoire de Taillac

Projection into a distant past or excursion into the near future, dreams of escape or teleportation to inner worlds, embark on the motionless journey of the Officine
with its thousand scents and eight home fragrances.

ALEXANDRIE
Lemony vapours bathed in bracing notes of mint, ginger and blackcurrant
On the onyx and jade incrusted tiles, a ray of moonlight cuts out the foliage of the lemon trees and the dance of the palms, gently rocking the evening warmth. The night’s torrent, rushing in, sends shivers through the blue menthol-scented
shade of the garden. Under the canopy, in the half-light, a curved blade and a
pair of steely eyes sparkle. 

ANNIBAL
Cedar, leather, cashmere wood and papyrus in a winter scent of crackling wood
The scent of pine needle fires, offered up to Tanit, was rising straight up to the stars, still visible through the forest’s canopy. In the wake of Annibal’s elephants, coated with white ochre, cold bluish patches of vapor and smoke came floating up from the embers extinguished by the fresh-fallen snow. The army crossed the last mountain pass in silence, in the icy and shimmering mountain dawn, shields and caparisons aglow from the silver rays of the early morning. 

CAMPAGNE D’ITALIE
Sun-soaked, delicate barks of bergamot and grapefruit mingle with the woody aromas of oak and cedar
Hints of leather, bark, earth, pine needles and summer-roasted leaves. The plains, white with sun and crisscrossed by scout honeybees, make for a blinding wait. In the warm shade of the woods, amid the thick silence of the oaks and cedars, the clatter of horses being harnessed, the impatience of restless hoofs, the glare of rifles before the charge. 

GÉNÉRAUX D'EMPIRE
Sweet rose, caressant rosemary and fresh blackcurrant
Laughter echoes through the hallways of castles, palaces and inns, through wide-open bedrooms, the atmosphere redolent with victory. On the floor: naked lovers, musical silks, crumpled dresses and uniforms, the velvet of roses and violets, flowers and fruit spilling out of overturned baskets. 

PATER MATEOS
A sea breeze carries the deep aromas of bergamot, lemon and rosewood
The green scent of wet grass, as raw as spring. On the prairie’s belly, clover flowers and hawthorns are shivering, as are the stems turned blue by the early morning. The sun drying the hedges; a spark amid the tall grasses lining the paths; the smoke of green wood fires. The soil comes up to the surface, and under the meadows’ back, runs the round spine of old granite hemmed by mosses, like so many slumbering herds, with dew rippling down their musk. 

RETOUR D'ÉGYPTE
A trail of hawthorn, jasmine, nutmeg, amber and vanilla
The sacred scent of ruins, of deserts peppered with tombs and columns buried under the millenary blows of the sun. In the alabaster vases and spun-glass vials, the petrified fragrance of amber and benzoin, of flowers and fossil woods, of ancient magic. 

SACRE
A perfume of wisdom on a frankincense base, where juniper is crowned by honey and pine.
The scent of coronations, a Gloria of juniper and honey, in the glare of stained-glass windows shot through with a bolt of winter sun. The golden threads in the wall-hangings spatter the ceremony of columns and vaults, the pious silence of ivory statues. In the damp nave, misty with frankincense and cold, the fragrance of olibanum and cedarwood cajoles the soul. 

SUMI HINOKI
Smoked woods of hinoki, cypress and cedar compose this ashy triptych with an intense character
Frankincense and the dark fire of sacred Hinoki wood under the summer rains of Shôno. The noble fragrance of flame charred temples, lacquered black with smoke, of cypress chests in which silks, swords and calligraphy scrolls slumber. In the green steam of cedar and camphorwood baths, near Tokaido’s Torii, images of the floating world anchor the rumble of the torrent and the flight of the autumn leaf.

"Houses and rooms are full of perfumes,
the shelves are crowded with perfumes,
I breathe the fragrance myself and know it and like it,
The distillation would intoxicate me also, but I shall not let it."

Walt Whitman, Song of Myself, 1855

BEAUTY AND CURIOSITY GO HAND IN HAND

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