Core Collection Sample Set

All seven of Chronotope’s core catalogue of perfumes from the Autotheory Issues and Citationals Series collections. Samples arrive in 2mL spray vials that are hand-dipped in custom-colored enamel.

Buen Camino: a gathering of scents the perfumer encountered while walking a 600-mile-long religious pilgrimage along an ancient path in Northern Spain that resulted in broken feet and blood poisoning, but provided a lasting cure for a lifetime’s worth of religious trauma. [Iberian lavender, dried immortelle, dust, grime, infections, bandage wraps, sweat, almond cake, spiced oranges, espresso.]

Playalinda: a perfume about memory enameled in calypso orange to approximate the hazy, dreamlike memory of a day in the past spent by the sea with a lover. [Sun-warmed peach, sand on warm skin, dirty hair, seaweed, smoked shells, vetiver, patchouli.]

Spite Eau de Toilette: a perfume about selfishness enameled in light mauve to signify the reserved yet reckless temperament of the work’s namesake impulse. [Bulgarian rose, angelica, Australian sandalwood, orris, violet leaf, leather, scalded sugar.]

Spite Eau de Parfum: a perfume about adaptation and a reconsideration of spiteful urges—particularly their sharp intensity of feeling, which can trigger personal and communal growth. [Artichoke, guava leaf, galbanum, tuberose, green carnation, peony, Hawaiian Sandalwood, thyme, chrysanthemum, nasturtium, spikenard, molle jasmine, orange blossom.]

Intra Venus: a hyacinth perfume dedicated to Hannah Wilke, an artist whose fearless self-portraiture, especially that taken after she received a lymphoma diagnosis, carved out new space for women’s self-representation in the visual arts. [Blue hyacinth, poison bulb, cyclamen, hinoki wood, cypress leaf, wasabi, mastic.]

Silueta: a perfume of understated white florals and blood notes created in tribute to the artist whose impressions of her body into natural settings became a means for her to reconnect with the homeland she lived in exile from. [Olfactory white, hollowness, unlandedness, exile.]

Nanas: created in thanks to the memoirist Alyssa Harad and in deference to the artist Niki de Saint Phalle’s commitment to spreading only joy through her work—this is Chronotope’s most buoyant, joyful perfume. [Banana candy, yogurt, red and white champaca, cardamom, shiso, amber, ylang ylang.]

If you'd like to purchase individual samples, please visit the perfumes' respective pages within the site by clicking on the perfumes’ names above.