Meet Me/dea, Chronotope’s newest perfume

  • Our bestselling perfume depicts scents from the perfumer’s 600-mile walk through northern Spain.

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  • A fruity floral-marine fragrance that defies expectation with peach, sand, salt, sweat & yearning.

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  • A rose that is not a rose, that is not a rose, that is not a rose…

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  • A burning rose garden at night blocks out the stars in a spicy, bitter-green hellblaze.

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  • An elegy for the perfumer’s favorite artist disguised in the plainclothes of a photorealistic hyacinth.

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  • The body of the artist in absentia: as soil, blood, water, glass, earth, blooms, atmosphere—& eternity.

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  • Playful banana candy dissolves into a honeyed embrace in Chronotope’s most joyful fragrance.

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  • An all-natural edition of the EdP fashioned from an entirely new list of ingredients.

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  • A study in smokescreens doubles as a showcase for a uniquely American resin that European perfumers lied about for over a century.

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  • A 360-degree view of vetiver made expressly for lovers of the endlessly intriguing root.

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  • Orange flower—a note long associated with infants—is singed & scarred by jonquil’s propellor petals & other wartime scents.

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Hi there—I’m Carter,

And I’m the one-man show(pony?) behind Chronotope. I began casually working with aromatics in the late 2000s in hopes of relieving stress and headaches as I finished writing my graduate thesis about an obscure literary device called the chronoto...

Meet the Perfumer

Listen to Emma Vernon’s interview with Carter on the Perfume Room pod

Ep. 79: "Chronicling Space & Time (& Trauma) Through Scent" [w/ Chronotope Perfume Founder Carter Weeks Maddox]

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