Materia Odorata
Atmosphere Scents
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Each scent is offered as a Volume:
a small-batch composition handmade in monasteries, intended to be released slowly through the art objects found in the
Maria de Mangop Collection.
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Ritual
Apply a few drops on the art object, place the object in stillness, and let air do the rest: warmth, time, and movement become the diffusion.
Layering is a consequence.
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VOLUME I — Aqua Athonita
A water-based composition built around Holy Water: mineral clarity, cold stone, and a breath of chapel air.
Notes: holy water accord, pale incense, limestone, clean musk
VOLUME II — Flos Deserti
A luminous floral held in dryness: sunlit petals, soft spice, and the sensation of sharp heat.
Notes: desert flower, saffron nuance, warm resin, skin musk
VOLUME III — Herba Monachorum
A green doctrine of medicinal plants: crushed leaves, monastery tinctures, and the first light of morning.
Notes: medicinal herbs, bitter greens, wild stems, herbal balm
VOLUME IV — Myrrha Vetus
Myrrh from Mount Athos, aged in shadow: intimate, resinous, and quietly golden against the air.
Notes: myrrh, dry woods, ambered resin, smoked sweetness
VOLUME V — Incensum Nox
Incense at its darkest register: slow-burning, architectural, and deep as a sealed altar after dusk.
Notes: frankincense, charred wood, black resin, nocturnal spice
VOLUME VI — Balmum Terrae
An earthy balm of roots and soil-warm herbs, like a remedy carried in cloth through time.
Notes: root tincture, damp earth, bitter resin, mossy warmth
VOLUME VII — Muscus Quietus
A fragrance of proximity: clean skin, softened air, and the hush of fabric in a silent room.
Notes: gentle musk, powdery woods, pale incense, linen accord
VOLUME VIII — Rosa Obscura
A rose without ornament: darkened petals, herbal edges, and a restrained sweetness that never asks for attention.
Notes: monastery rose, dried leaves, resin trace, soft spice
VOLUME IX — Vinum Resinatum
Resin steeped into warmth: spiced darkness, lacquered depth, and a trace of sweetness like old varnish.
Notes: amber resin, clove nuance, balsamic wood, dark honey
VOLUME X — Fumus Aureus
A gold smoke composition: frankincense ash, glowing resins, and the slow tempo of ritual made visible.
Notes: incense smoke, warm resin, waxed wood, mineral air
VOLUME XI — Nardus Silens
Wild monastery flowers gathered at the edge of silence: airy, herbal, and quietly radiant.
Notes: wild florals, green nectar, soft balm, pale musk
VOLUME XII — Sanctum Hiemis
Winter distilled into a relic: waxed wood, clean cold air, and the last warmth held inside stone.
Notes: cold incense, dry timber, beeswax nuance, mineral musk
Seasonal batches
TRIPTYCH I — Vernalis (Spring)
Volumes I–III
TRIPTYCH II — Aestas (Summer)
Volumes IV–VI
TRIPTYCH III — Autumnus (Autumn)
Volumes VII–IX
TRIPTYCH IV — Hiems (Winter)
Volumes X–XII
Curated archival essence batches
of
similar olfactory expression.
HERBARIUM
A green and luminous quartet.
FUMUS
Smoke, resin, wood, silence.
AQUA
Pure, mineral, devotional clarity.
The scent library contains
12 scented books.
Each book corresponds to a month of the year.
They can be stored between other books
or
displayed open
to
perfume the atmosphere.
