A new project with Bertrand Duchaufour and a landscape artist/photographer Martin Hill.
The same way in which Martin goes to a sight and rearranges what nature left there into an installation, the perfumer rearranged some molecules and materials to put the beauty of a natural material into focus.
Also Martin aims to let his stuctures to be absorbed back into natural chaos. Perfume evaporates into the environment in a similar fashion, beautiful but transient.
In Chypre Shot all the focus is on a classic chypre effect (citrus - tart flower- dark woody background). However, the traditional rose is replaced with peony and for the signature dessert gourmand touch of his, Bertrand throws in a delectable coffee and cardamom combination.
The structure and image which were the conceptual inspiration for the perfume are below. It's a mysterious, rich haze full of the sweet scents of a meadow. There is also a nod to oakmoss (one of the pillars of the chypre architecture).
All about this fragrance
Vibe check
This is a fragrance for close-range presence: a person who enters a room with a low, textured warmth rather than a bright burst. Its mossy darkness, tea and coffee facets suit intimate settings where the scent can unfold slowly and leave a dry, elegant trace in the air.
How to wear
Best worn in cool to mild weather, where its moss, labdanum and amber can bloom without feeling heavy. Apply sparingly at first: the extrait concentration gives it depth and a measured trail, and a few sprays are enough to let the coffee, tea and saffron facets emerge gradually on skin.
Who it’s for
For wearers who like chypres with a modern twist: mossy, woody, slightly sweet and not overly polished. It will appeal to those drawn to textured compositions, dark florals, coffee nuances and fragrances that feel artistic rather than conventionally pretty.
Release year
2019
The nose
Bertrand Duchaufour is one of contemporary perfumery’s most distinctive architects of structure and texture, known for turning materials into vivid, often slightly untamed compositions. He began his career in Grasse at Lautier Florasynth and later worked independently, building a reputation for complex woods, spices, incense and chypres with a natural, tactile feel. For Olfactive Studio, Duchaufour translated Martin Hill’s image into a fragrance that keeps the classic chypre frame but shifts its emotional center toward moss, coffee, tea and a peony accord. His style suits the concept well: precise, atmospheric and capable of making a composition feel both constructed and organic at once.
Collaborators
Céline Verleure shaped the house’s photography-led concept and brief, sending the perfumer an image rather than a conventional marketing direction, so the fragrance could grow from a visual idea into scent. Martin Hill’s photograph of moss and volcanic rocks on Mount Taranaki provided the creative source, while Duchaufour transformed that image into the final chypre structure.
Olfactive Studio’s story
Olfactive Studio builds fragrances at the meeting point of contemporary photography and perfumery, treating each scent as an exchange between image and material. The house favors artistic freedom, genderless compositions and high-quality concentrations, with a clear preference for intuition and visual inspiration over market-driven formulas.
Chypre Shot’s concept
Chypre Shot belongs to Olfactive Studio’s Sepia collection and was conceived from Martin Hill’s photograph of moss and volcanic rocks on Mount Taranaki. The image suggested a landscape of green haze and mineral darkness, which Duchaufour translated into a chypre built around oakmoss, patchouli, peony and coffee, with the perfume framed as a fleeting counterpart to Hill’s natural installations.
Extra info
Chypre Shot is part of Olfactive Studio’s Sepia collection, a line named for the brown-toned world of photography. The fragrance was inspired by a single image rather than a traditional brief, and the house’s bottles are designed with reuse in mind.
A new project with Bertrand Duchaufour and a landscape artist/photographer Martin Hill.
The same way in which Martin goes to a sight and rearranges what nature left there into an installation, the perfumer rearranged some molecules and materials to put the beauty of a natural material into focus.
Also Martin aims to let his stuctures to be absorbed back into natural chaos. Perfume evaporates into the environment in a similar fashion, beautiful but transient.
In Chypre Shot all the focus is on a classic chypre effect (citrus - tart flower- dark woody background). However, the traditional rose is replaced with peony and for the signature dessert gourmand touch of his, Bertrand throws in a delectable coffee and cardamom combination.
The structure and image which were the conceptual inspiration for the perfume are below. It's a mysterious, rich haze full of the sweet scents of a meadow. There is also a nod to oakmoss (one of the pillars of the chypre architecture).
All about this fragrance
Vibe check
This is a fragrance for close-range presence: a person who enters a room with a low, textured warmth rather than a bright burst. Its mossy darkness, tea and coffee facets suit intimate settings where the scent can unfold slowly and leave a dry, elegant trace in the air.
How to wear
Best worn in cool to mild weather, where its moss, labdanum and amber can bloom without feeling heavy. Apply sparingly at first: the extrait concentration gives it depth and a measured trail, and a few sprays are enough to let the coffee, tea and saffron facets emerge gradually on skin.
Who it’s for
For wearers who like chypres with a modern twist: mossy, woody, slightly sweet and not overly polished. It will appeal to those drawn to textured compositions, dark florals, coffee nuances and fragrances that feel artistic rather than conventionally pretty.
Release year
2019
The nose
Bertrand Duchaufour is one of contemporary perfumery’s most distinctive architects of structure and texture, known for turning materials into vivid, often slightly untamed compositions. He began his career in Grasse at Lautier Florasynth and later worked independently, building a reputation for complex woods, spices, incense and chypres with a natural, tactile feel. For Olfactive Studio, Duchaufour translated Martin Hill’s image into a fragrance that keeps the classic chypre frame but shifts its emotional center toward moss, coffee, tea and a peony accord. His style suits the concept well: precise, atmospheric and capable of making a composition feel both constructed and organic at once.
Collaborators
Céline Verleure shaped the house’s photography-led concept and brief, sending the perfumer an image rather than a conventional marketing direction, so the fragrance could grow from a visual idea into scent. Martin Hill’s photograph of moss and volcanic rocks on Mount Taranaki provided the creative source, while Duchaufour transformed that image into the final chypre structure.
Olfactive Studio’s story
Olfactive Studio builds fragrances at the meeting point of contemporary photography and perfumery, treating each scent as an exchange between image and material. The house favors artistic freedom, genderless compositions and high-quality concentrations, with a clear preference for intuition and visual inspiration over market-driven formulas.
Chypre Shot’s concept
Chypre Shot belongs to Olfactive Studio’s Sepia collection and was conceived from Martin Hill’s photograph of moss and volcanic rocks on Mount Taranaki. The image suggested a landscape of green haze and mineral darkness, which Duchaufour translated into a chypre built around oakmoss, patchouli, peony and coffee, with the perfume framed as a fleeting counterpart to Hill’s natural installations.
Extra info
Chypre Shot is part of Olfactive Studio’s Sepia collection, a line named for the brown-toned world of photography. The fragrance was inspired by a single image rather than a traditional brief, and the house’s bottles are designed with reuse in mind.