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CM2 Project, Macerations

Asphalt Rainbow & Street Art Techniques: Subtraction

"Your incompleteness completes me" Asphalt Rainbow is a fragrance born from a fascination with masterful techniques deployed in street art production. There is so much beauty in how a skilled bomber possesses this expert ability to take the simplest everyday things and...

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From The Underground, Headlines, Macerations

Rose, Street Art, and the CM2 Project

The CM2 Project: Inspired by Street Art Disrupt expectations. From its ability to distort perceptions or transform the ambiance of any environment, to its all-too temporary embrace with our skin - not to mention our...

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Macerations

Stonewall, 45 Years Later

Christopher Street is currently playing host to Stonewall 45: Windows Into LGBT History. This Greenwich Village educational exhibition commemorates the 45th Anniversary of the Stonewall Riots: the three-day historic event now heavily regarded as the...

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Christopher Street Magazine Covers
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Macerations

Inside the Pages of Christopher Street Magazine

In search of research materials for my fragrance, I happened to stumble across Christopher Street magazine while combing through the stacks of archive materials inside the New York Public Library. Founded in the 1970s,...

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douglas bender ralf schweiger
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From The Underground, Gender, Headlines, In The News, Macerations

Christopher Street: Ralf Schwieger and Douglas Bender

I first met my Christopher Street fragrance co-conspirator, perfumer Ralf Schwieger, back in 2008. I had been working as an independent fragrance consultant for about a year, and was contacted by Mane USA to...

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