SPITE EAU DE PARFUM:

A perfume about adaptation

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Nestled in a nest of green, silky, shining fabric with brilliant highlights and folds that appear black is a 30mL bottle of Chronotope Perfume’s Spite Eau de Parfum: A Perfume about Adaptation.
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  • Nestled in a nest of green, silky, shining fabric with brilliant highlights and folds that appear black is a 30mL bottle of Chronotope Perfume’s Spite Eau de Parfum: A Perfume about Adaptation.
  • SPITE EAU DE PARFUM
  • Digital rendering of Chronotope Perfume’s Spite Eau de Parfum bottle with a white label stamped with the perfumer’s thumbprint in Sprouted Green, containing green-amber perfume, and set against a matching Sprouted Green background with a badge noting press coverage in Vice News.
SPITE EAU DE PARFUM

“Painfully cool.”
—Vice News

Flaming, Thorny Hedgemaze

An olfactive inverse of its sulking sister perfume, Spite EdP explores our actively destructive expression of its titular emotion through sharp, spiced rose thorns, a garden in flames, synapse-snaps of jasmine, an unstoppable acid-green galbanum fireball, and a prickly, spindly heart of green artichoke absolute.

Upon its release in 2021, several years ahead of the wider industry shift toward vegetal materials and “garden” scents, Spite EdP became to that plant what Olivia Giacobetti’s Premier Figuier for L’Artisan Parfumeur (1994) is to fig: Spite EdP is the world’s first perfume built around artichoke—both in scent, through the use of its absolute as the star material in its formula, and in theme, by drawing on the plant’s longstanding cultural lore. An aggressive, green, spicy blaze, Spite EdP wears like an olfactive hedge maze: defiant, cutting, and ultimately consoling once you’ve fought your way through.

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Notes Pyramid
A scent pyramid visualizing the notes of Spite EdP by Chronotope Perfume: artichoke, white rose, sandalwood, orange blossom, molle jasmine, galbanum.

Allspice, Red Thyme, Guava Leaf, Nasturtium, Green Carnation, Molle Jasmine, Peony, White Rose of York, Orange Blossom, Galbanum, Artichoke, Katrafay, Green Sacra Frankincense, Rose Vine & Thorns, Spikenard, Ruh Khus Vetiver, Hawaiian Sandalwood
Feeling

Fiery & Fiercely Passionate — for when a little destruction seems the best possible way forward. Like your Defying Gravity moment. If anyone ends up hurt, it’s on them for not getting out of your way.
Presence

Entirely unisex. Intense and mildly intimidating—though not domineering. A tightrope walk of greens, florals, spices, resins, woods, fruits, and more.
Projection

To cover our asses here, we’ll say moderate to strong, and we know you’ll agree with us. But to be honest, it’s a little bit of a delulu assessment. Spite EdP always feels bigger to its wearer than it does to those around them. That nagging voice in the back of our heads that tells us to “stop putting up this shit, own the moment, and do something about it already” is the immediate precursor to its inspiration, after all.

Scent Sculpture

A cube-like visual metaphor offering online audiences an idea of the wearing experience of Spite EdP through its representation of form, color, transparency, weight, and texture.
3D scent sculpture for Chronotope Perfume’s Spite Eau de Parfum. The structure appears alive, overgrown with sharp green leaves and threatening, thorned growths. Set against a Sprouted Green background, it expresses the perfume’s fierce, galbanum-and-rose-thorn intensity and rage.
What Wearers Say

“Holy mother of God […] if you’re the sort of person who goes to the Portrait of a Lady [by Dominique Ropion for Frederic Malle], this is just sort of filthier and naughtier and nowhere near as polite at all.”
—Alice Duparcq, multi-award winning fragrance journalist, in a conversation with Brooke Belldon for Sainte Cellier

“It's beautiful, confident, distanced. It just feels very self-contained and special. It's a scary rose, not leathery or smokey, but one that might sting rather than prick.”
—@sophiecaller, via Fragrantica

”Opens very GREEN, spicy and stem green with bitter galbanum. I notice the vetiver next. As it warms up, a petal-soft rose rises to blend with the green notes. However, the bitter and spicy green edge keeps the rose from feeling delicate and pretty; it is more haughty and sophisticated in its beauty. This has the same green edge of Spite EDT, which allows these perfumes to wave at each other from either side of a continuum.”
—u/Wordortwo, via Reddit

”This IS the smell of spite. Prickly, pickle-y, harsh and severe. I must hand it to Carter that he does a mean rose thorn note. […] It smells angry and conceptual […]”
—@Colbourn, via Basenotes

“Holy Galbanum. This is A RO MA TIC and persistent […] Props for its amazing, spiteful longevity.”
-@kokonose, via Fragrantica

“Spite doesn’t have any tobacco, but somehow the different layers of haughty green in this align to create an effect that distinctly smells like a knowing Aunt-Pariah, after quietly escaping down the side of the house at a painful family gathering for a smoke, returning to the fold to selectively feed you bits of everything you’ve wanted to know about the world and delivering some home-truths to obnoxiously dominant and unkind relatives. If I was to think of my own historical figure, it might be Simone de Beauvoir, grimly battling the vindictive frailties of 20th century social constructs in her writing and her life, smelling like a slightly stark but affirming mix of cigarettes, pale florals and something vegetal and vaguely ‘organic’. I really enjoy this, both as novelty and style.”
—Billie Stimpson, Pink Manor Decant Club

“Me in a bottle.”
—@gudetama, via Fragrantica 

“[I]t's brilliantly done, how everything here reinforces and overlaps each other and constantly produces new, quite crazy crossovers […] not at all easy to decipher. […] This is clever, sensual, physical, artificial, baroque, exuberant, prickly, green-sweet, smoky, bitter.”
—@ElAttarine, via Parfumo

”A spiky - green, indolic, searing, fleshy, crisp beauty. I see the vision. 10/10 fabulous […] Not for the faint of heart.”
—@RLHQ, via Fragrantica
Allergen Info

Spite EdP meets IFRA 51 guidelines for Category 4 (fine fragrance) and contains the following fragrance allergens (≥0.001%):

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