Plate AT-1 · rendered in-house
The route opens at the perfumer's organ: an engraved plate comes to life as the desk, the camera eases in, and it settles back into its engraving. Modeled and rendered in-house; the vials are blank-labeled, nothing is for sale. © Radler Parfums.
Act III · Heart · The Atelier
The Atelier
The working studio — accord architect, perfumer DNA quiz, memory engine, and mailing list.
About 7 minutes of reading
Transcript
The film has no sound and no words. What it shows: The route opens at the perfumer's organ: an engraved plate comes to life as the desk, the camera eases in, and it settles back into its engraving. Modeled and rendered in-house; the vials are blank-labeled, nothing is for sale.
The Bench
A perfumer works at a desk like this one: smelling strips in a block, a beaker, a pipette, a notebook and a pencil. Pick up a strip and dip it, fill the pipette, swirl the beaker, and write down what you smell. Each strip carries one of the materials on record, with its card and its page.
Start at the Bench The Bench has its own page: smelling strips, a beaker, a pipette and a notebook, with every material on record.
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Accord Architect
Describe a memory, a place or a feeling in plain words. Your words are read by the same rules as the Scent Translator, offline in your browser, and matched to the teaching accord on record whose odor descriptors are closest. You see that accord’s own components and teaching parts, from its record. A way into the accords, not a formula: nothing here is a Radler formula or a recipe for skin.
Nothing you type leaves this page: the matching runs in your browser, and nothing is stored or sent. Without JavaScript, the teaching accords are listed on their own pages.
The closest teaching accord appears here
Describe a memory, a place or a feeling; the accord whose descriptors are nearest your words is shown with its record’s components.
The organ and the bench
Build an accord from the records. Every material and molecule on record stands on the organ as a bottle, its label taken from its record: its name, its odor family and the evidence for that family. Pick bottles onto the bench; the bench names the IFRA Standards and the EU rules that the records cite for what is on it. Which materials, not how much: the site gives no proportions for an accord you build, and nothing here is a Radler formula.
52 bottles, one for every material and molecule on record. A bottle’s family is the one most of its filed descriptor words belong to; the evidence is the descriptor record’s, as filed. The shelves follow the published classification the descriptor records cite for their family names (Stepanyuk A, Kirschning A. Synthetic terpenoids in the world of fragrances: Iso E Super® is the showcase).
Top shelf citrus, fruity and herbaceous: the classification’s top-note families · 4 bottles
- bergamot essential oil (bergamot essential oil (olio essenziale di bergamotto))
- methyl dihydrojasmonate (methyl dihydrojasmonate (Hedione))
- β-damascenone
- lavandin essential oil
Heart shelf floral: the classification’s heart-note family · 14 bottles
- benzyl acetate (Benzyl acetate)
- citronellol
- geraniol
- geranium oil (geranium oil (rose geranium oil))
- jasmine absolute
- lavender essential oil (lavender essential oil (huile essentielle de lavande))
- orris butter (orris butter (orris essential oil, also called orris concrete))
- p-BMHCA (butylphenyl methylpropional (p-BMHCA, Lilial))
- phenylethyl alcohol (2-phenylethyl alcohol (phenylethyl alcohol, PEA))
- rose absolute
- rose otto (rose otto (rose oil; Bulgarsko rozovo maslo, PGI))
- tuberose absolute
- α-irone
- α-terpineol
Bottom shelf aromatic, balsamic, amber, moss and animalic, musk and wood: the classification’s bottom-note families · 12 bottles
- coumarin (Coumarin)
- copal (copal (the resin of Bursera; Mexican copal))
- cured vanilla pods
- frankincense (frankincense (the oleo-gum resin of Boswellia; olibanum))
- labdanum absolute
- vanillin
- indole
- oakmoss absolute (oakmoss absolute (oak moss extract))
- musk ketone (Musk ketone)
- Iso E Super
- sandalwood oil
- vetiver oil (vetiver oil (vetiver essential oil))
The drawer the spicy family (the classification has no shelf for it) and the records with no family on record · 22 bottles
- atranol (2,6-dihydroxy-4-methylbenzaldehyde)
- bergapten (Bergapten)
- chloroatranol (3-Chloro-2,6-dihydroxy-4-methylbenzaldehyde)
- citral (Citral)
- costus root oil (costus root oil (costus oil))
- eugenol (Eugenol)
- HICC (hydroxyisohexyl 3-cyclohexene carboxaldehyde (HICC))
- hydroxycitronellal (Hydroxycitronellal)
- incensole acetate
- isoeugenol (Isoeugenol)
- jasmine concrete
- khusimol
- limonene (Limonene)
- linalool
- linalyl acetate
- (-)-Methyl jasmonate
- methyleugenol (Methyleugenol)
- violet leaf absolute
- α-santalol
- β-santalol
- agarospirol
- agarwood oil (agarwood oil (oud oil))
The bench
Nothing on the bench yet. Pick a bottle from the organ, or start from a teaching accord below.
Start from a teaching accord
Why did one change matter? The Causal Debugger changes one component of a teaching accord at a time and follows it through the records, never a house formula: start with the rose.
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Can you match an accord by its dry-down?
The target is one of the house’s teaching accords: how much of it is left on a blotter over twelve hours, and the smell words its materials carry. Set the parts of its own materials with − and +, then compare. Three rounds, up to ten points each; teaching accords only, never a formula.
The full Accord Challenge · All the games · The teaching accords · The Bench
Your Perfumer DNA
Six questions. From your answers: your olfactory tendencies, your blind spots, the accord families you gravitate to, and three fragrances to go and smell — not a generic category. Your answers stay in this page; nothing is stored or sent.
Use the arrow keys to move between the answers; Enter or Space chooses one.
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Olfactory Memory Engine
Smell reaches the brain’s memory and emotion regions by an unusually short route — one reason a scent can bring a memory back whole. Describe a specific memory as precisely as you can, and the house’s library of scent associations will map it to an accord and the materials behind it. It runs in your browser; nothing is stored or sent.
Your memory, mapped, appears here
The more precise the memory, the more particular the materials.
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Sources cited here include: Herz (2016). The Role of Odor-Evoked Memory in Psychological and Physiological Health
What would this visit look like as an accord?
While a page is open, the materials you linger on are counted in this tab, as top, heart and base notes. On request the sketch draws them as an engraved card: the proof flacon, its liquid tinted by what held you, and a constellation of the materials.
Only this page’s visit: what you linger on here, counted in memory while the page is open. Nothing is stored or sent, and it is gone when you leave or reload.
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