Every Chronotope perfume tells a story. Introducing the newest one.

Named for architectural columns carved to resemble women, Caryatis EdP is our most minimalistic formula yet—complete with all the olfactive drama Chronotope lovers expect.

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Our bestselling perfume:


From $8.00 USD
Bottle of Buen Camino EdP—an herbal almond incense perfume by Chronotope
Scent pyramid diagram for Buen Camino Eau de Parfum by Chronotope Perfume
A fragmented resin cube form glows with amber and obsidian tones, symbolizing healing through rupture—a visual metaphor for the scent of Chronotope’s Buen Camino Eau de Parfum.

Our purpose:

Chronotope’s perfumes are

A letter from the perfumer

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Hi there—I’m Carter, and I founded Chronotope because I wanted to wear a style of perfumery that was becoming harder to find:

Perfume made for people by perfumers.

Consider that the bestselling perfume of all time (yes, that one) was not made with the masses in mind. Instead, the job of its perfumer was to produce a fragrance that would appeal to one, single woman.

So he crafted a perfume that played to her specific tastes, flattered her unique sensibilities, and did so all while satisfying his own, personal curiosity a bit, too, by adding aldehydes—which had never been used before in a perfume—into his formula.

Once it was released for sale to the public, that perfume didn’t succeed in spite of its formula’s personalized quirks, but because of them, as they gave the fragrance uniqueness and character.

It was a perfume made for a person by a perfumer.

It’s never been easier for people to access perfumery as it is today. Yet the vast majority of perfumes any average person might find themselves desiring are not perfumes made for people by perfumers. 

They are consumer commodities instead: products spat out of sprawling global systems, developed by committees across continents and assembled through long chains of natural resource and human labor extraction—including the labor of perfumers among countless others who often have far more power and ability to influence the scent of products than perfumers do. Through these coordinated global efforts, production and sales efficiency are optimized to ensure that every product appeals to the greatest amount of potential consumers—personas and amalgams—rather than real, actual people. 

When something interpersonally communicative and connective is suddenly upended so that it becomes designed to appeal to anybody rather than somebody, the thing itself is defaced. It’s now a widget. All those inherent connective properties and peculiarities that exist at the person-to-person level? Out—exchanged in favor of the widget’s slick, potential sales value.

And there’s the rub. Perfumes churned out of that octopus-tentacled system are not ones made to be worn or enjoyed by people anymore. They’re made to be purchased.

They’re not meant to move us. They’re meant to move units.

Chronotope is my best attempt at an intervention and a return to form—not out of unfounded, weepy nostalgia, but because something obviously has gone all wrong in the manner that perfume is made and sold, as well as in the sorts of scents that perfume is expected to depict and the sorts of stories it is expected to tell…

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Our most recently released perfume:


From $8.00 USD
Bottle of Chronotope Perfume Medea Eau de Parfum—orange blossom gasoline petrol perfume handmade artisan fragrance
A fragrance pyramid featuring the top, middle, and base notes of Medea EdP by Chronotope Perfume: orange blossom, motor oil, doll’s head, Florida tangerine.
As a visual representation of the scent of Chronotope Perfume’s Medea Eau de Parfum, a cube of white porcelain in the shape of a doll’s head with eyes closed and a slack jaw—the expression is still, and the porcelain is aged, fractured, and leaking a tarry-colored orange substance, evoking innocence, loss, traumatic injury, and the human costs of war.

Our core values:


…that its perfumes are

100%
handmade

I personally ideate, formulate, blend, filter, bottle, label, and package every milliliter of perfume that leaves the studio. Occasionally, I pay friends to help out. But at no point does any automation or machinery do the work. I even mark each bottle's label with a thumbprint, signature, or hand-drawn symbol as proof.

…that Chronotope remains

100%
independent

As a business, Chronotope is entirely perfumer-owned and funded solely via product sales. This means I retain full creative control over my work and am beholden only to customers, who can rest assured that their purchase dollars empower a perfumer to take risks others either can't or won't.

…& that its scents will always be

100%
Chronotope

I taught myself perfumery slowly through trial & error over a decade, not by studying others’ formulas or being taught others’ best practices.. I’m proud to make perfumes that smell like ones that only I could or would make and accept hearing that they’re “weird” or “different” as praise. Their difference is the point.

“With Chronotope, Carter is clearly intent on pursuing what might be considered conceptual indie work, but has the skill and deftness of hand with materials to execute work that is both wearable and exciting.”

—Billie Stimpson, Pink Manor Decant Club

Since 2020, Chronotope has released…

Bottle of Buen Camino EdP—an herbal almond incense perfume by Chronotope
Scent pyramid diagram for Buen Camino Eau de Parfum by Chronotope Perfume
A fragmented resin cube form glows with amber and obsidian tones, symbolizing healing through rupture—a visual metaphor for the scent of Chronotope’s Buen Camino Eau de Parfum.

BUEN CAMINO EAU DE PARFUM

$130.00 USD
Bottle of Playalinda EdP—peach basil salt aquatic oceanic sex on the beach perfume by Chronotope
Fragrance notes pyramid illustration for Chronotope Perfume’s Playalinda EdP
A clear cube with delicate coral-like textures breaking through its surface contains a melange of seafoam whites, fleshy streaks of color, and shell-like forms, against a warm orange backdrop. The cube, which suggests the transgression of boundaries, coastal brightness, breezy salt air, skin, bodies, and youthful play, is a visual representation of the scent of Chronotope Perfume’s Playalinda EdP.

PLAYALINDA EAU DE PARFUM

$130.00 USD
Bottle of Spite EdT by Chronotope—rose violet leaf leather sugar eau de toilette fragrance
Scent pyramid diagram for Spite Eau de Toilette by Chronotope
A translucent cube infused with desaturated pink roses, cool-toned brambles, and scattered ash-like threads, set against a violet background as a visual representation of the scent of Chronotope Perfume Spite EdT. Evokes a cold, indifferent, anti-romantic rose washed in violet leaf, ash, and fog.

SPITE EAU DE TOILETTE

$125.00 USD
Bottle of Spite EdP by Chronotope—artichoke galbanum spice vegetal green handmade perfume
A labeled illustration of a scent pyramid listing the manufacturer’s notes for Spite EdP by Chronotope Perfume
A spiky green resin cube form encrusted with amethysts, plant shards and spiny growths suggests adaptation, self-protection, self-reliance, resilience, and defiance—and provides an apt visual representation of the spiced, galbanum-heavy green scent of Spite EdP, a perfume by Chronotope..

SPITE EAU DE PARFUM

$140.00 USD
Bottle of Intra Venus EdP—artisan-crafted hyacinth soliflore wasabi mastic perfume from Chronotope
INTRA VENUS EAU DE PARFUM
INTRA VENUS EAU DE PARFUM
INTRA VENUS EAU DE PARFUM
The surfaces of a solid white and teal sculpted cube, pulsing with silver veins, are ruptured by vaguely floral, yet hollow growths that emerge from the center of the cube structure, the visual suggests a disturbance of health, a balance between erasure and emergence, and provides an image that represents the hyacinth-heavy scent of Chronotope Perfume’s Intra Venus EdP.

INTRA VENUS EAU DE PARFUM

$135.00 USD
Bottle of Silueta EdP—artsy artisan perfume by Chronotope rose frangipani orris blood woodsy perfume
Scent notes pyramid illustration for Silueta Eau de Parfum by Chronotope, a perfume dedicated to the artist Ana Mendieta
Fragmented resin cube split mid-air, with geologic striations and molten interior veins, suspended against a red background. Suggests disappearance, memory, and physical trace.

SILUETA EAU DE PARFUM

$135.00 USD
Bottle of Nanas EdP by Chronotope Perfume—banana perfume handmade artisan champaca joyous fragrance
A scent notes pyramid diagram for Nanas Eau de Parfum by Chronotope
To serve as a visual representation of the scent of Nanas EdP by Chronotope Perfume, a colorful, blocky cube-like form made of stacks of candy-like segments of blocks with rounded corners and spheres, in shades of soft pink, yellows, oranges, and greens—playful and joyful, even youthful, but somehow remaining decidedly mature.

NANAS EAU DE PARFUM

$135.00 USD
Bottle of Cucurrucucú EdP by Chronotope—a surreal smoky mezcal pine orris perfume
A pyramid form in green hues labeled with the names of scents included as notes in the perfume Cucurrucu by Chronotope
As a visual representation of the scent of Cucurrucucu EdP by Chronotope Perfume, a charred black wood cube form with a carved dove in flight and molten lava-like striations that reveal a glowing heart of burning, smoky copal negro incense, suggesting ceremony, freedom, warm hearts, and sacred friendships.

CUCURRUCUCÚ EAU DE PARFUM

$145.00 USD
Bottle of Chronotope Buen Camino Extrait de Parfum—all-natural handmade immortelle orange blossom perfume
A brightly colored pyramid illustration labeled with scent notes for Chronotope Perfume’s Buen Camino Extrait
As a visualization of Chronotope Perfume’s Buen Camino Extrait de Parfum, an amber-hued sculptural cube form contains an interior, glowing heart of light at its core, revealing dark, resinous branches throughout the cube that resemble arteries and suggest heat, incense, and sacred ritual.

BUEN CAMINO EXTRAIT DE PARFUM

$165.00 USD
Bottle of Handmade Artisan Perfume Janus EdP by Chronotope—ruh khus beautiful green vetiver fragrance
Scent pyramid diagram for Janus Eau de Parfum by Chronotope Perfume
To provide a visual representation of Chronotope’s Janus EdP, a transparent cube of half-stone, half-clear epoxy encasing fragments of urban rock, grass, roots, and moss, highlighting material duality of ruin and growth, enclosure and exposure, nature and civilization, light and dark, wet and dry, and on.

JANUS EAU DE PARFUM

$130.00 USD
Bottle of Chronotope Perfume Medea Eau de Parfum—orange blossom gasoline petrol perfume handmade artisan fragrance
A fragrance pyramid featuring the top, middle, and base notes of Medea EdP by Chronotope Perfume: orange blossom, motor oil, doll’s head, Florida tangerine.
As a visual representation of the scent of Chronotope Perfume’s Medea Eau de Parfum, a cube of white porcelain in the shape of a doll’s head with eyes closed and a slack jaw—the expression is still, and the porcelain is aged, fractured, and leaking a tarry-colored orange substance, evoking innocence, loss, traumatic injury, and the human costs of war.

ME/DEA EAU DE PARFUM

$135.00 USD
CARYATIS EAU DE PARFUM
A pyramid listing the scent notes for Caryatis EdP by Chronotope Perfume: styrax, white marble & marble dust, flint, jasmine sambac.

CARYATIS EAU DE PARFUM

$130.00 USD