Flaneur
2024
Perfume Branding, Package, Photography, Scent Formulation
8.5 × 6.5 × 4 in. Box,
2 × 4 in. Perfume Label,
3 × 3 × 1.5 in. Paper Kaleidoscope,
Foraged Branch,
Photography
A Quiet Archive of Wandering
This perfume evokes a multisensory walking experience in Chicago as a stranger. Through scent, touch, and image, the piece holds onto fleeting impressions—memory, preservation, and the trace of the everyday—captured in tactile objects and still moments. A kaleidoscope refracts the city’s fragments, while the scent lingers like a half-remembered path.
Flaneur is a French term used by nineteenth-century French poet Charles Baudelaire to identify an observer of modern urban life. It captures the process of not knowing where you will end up, collecting objects, remembering old places, and getting to know new places. The objects are scented with herbal and woody fragrances reminiscent of Lake Michigan.