So Like a Rose...

Asphalt Rainbow takes its inspiration from the “break the rules” attitude of global street art: a creative world movement that teaches anything can be a canvas and anyone an artist.

Exploring the concepts of DISTORTION, REAPPROPRIATION, and IMPERMANENCE, Asphalt Rainbow borrows from this series of masterful street art techniques to craft an olfactive love letter to the urban landscape: the fragrance is a roughed up rose that’s been hyper-colored, torn apart and twisted on its head, then nailed to the wall for your sniffing pleasure.

The arc of Asphalt Rainbow mirrors the same unpredictable lifecycle of outdoor art: presented as a re-envisioned rose accord that distorts and morphs over time like a fragmented floral collage splattered across urban walls and alleyways, its aerosol-tinged aroma ever-fading closer towards background.

Asphalt Rainbow is crafted in collaboration with perfumer Cecile Hua of Mane USA. Additional support provided by performer Careena Melia, and an ever-growing adopted family of bombers, buskers, and writers scattered all across the globe. This is dedicated to their (and our) continued pursuits of beauty.

Every bottle of Asphalt Rainbow is hand-filled and packed with dried rose.

Asphalt Rainbow is also available as three different 4×4 inch Scratch & Sniff stickers designed by CM Founder, Douglas Bender.

Major Fragrance Notes

Featured: Rose Absolute, Rose Fragments
Accents: Spray Paint (Aerosols), Galbanum, Lily of the Valley, Lychee, Ylang, Saffron, Magnolia, Leather
Background: Asphalt, Detritus, Dried Patchouli, Wet Wood, Oxidized Amber

What People Are Saying About Asphalt Rainbow

“If you enjoy roaming aimlessly around your favorite city checking out the ever-changing street art, Asphalt Rainbow might be the fragrance for you. As an ode to the world of street art, the unusual blend of rose, spray paint (yes, really!), leather, and asphalt conjures up hitting the pavement. It’s a little ladylike, a little tough, and very edgy. City girls, this one is for you.”

—Emily Gaynor for Teen Vogue’s 10 Weird Scents That You Can Actually Wear

“This indie line has done it again! I love this metallic floral. It’s like a chrome rose with this intriguing ozone component. It’s like a garden in the city after a rain shower.”

—Victoria Jent for EauMG’s The Spring 2015 Perfume Picks

“Working with perfumer Cecile Hua, Mr. Bender has created a rose disguised as a spray paint can Molotov Cocktail. They fashion a rose perfume which explodes across a concrete face and instead of burning alcohol it is replaced with the smell of the urban landscape. It has the same primal impact as a provocative piece of street art as something as pretty as a rose can be laid over something distinctly artificial and create a different form of beauty.”

—Mark Behnke for Colognoisseur

“Asphalt Rainbow feels contemporary and new, and that’s a scarce quality these days—when so many perfumes smell derivative or minimally like variants on a tried-and-true theme.”

—Ida Meister of Fragrantica

“Creativity expressed through composition has a logic and Bender and perfumer Cecile Hua use perfume to create a moment spring-loaded with potential that the wearer unpacks based on his/her own inclinations. It’s a riff on guided imagery, and while it’s loosely drawn, it’s not at all arbitrary.Asphalt Rainbow makes an assertion about how perfume works and then proves its point without seeming dogmatic, no easy trick.”

—JTD for Scenthurdle

Asphalt Rainbow

So Like a Rose...

Major Fragrance Notes

What People Are Saying About Asphalt Rainbow

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