Charenton Macerations Asphalt Rainbow Bottle 1oz

Asphalt Rainbow

A Rose Undone

Asphalt Rainbow radiates as a mineral-floral-chypre through industrial walls. A rose dismantled, twisted, and repurposed, fracturing and evolving in vivid, chaotic motion.

$100.00

Featured
Rose Absolute
Rose Fragments

Accents
Galbanum
Leather
Lily of the Valley
Lychee
Magnolia
Saffron
Spray Paint
Ylang

Background
Asphalt
Detritus
Dried Patchouli
Oxidized Amber
Wet Wood

Composed In Collaboration With
Cecile Hua (Mane USA)

Allergens Information

Contains: Alcohol Denat., Fragrance (Parfum), Water (Aqua), Linalool, Benzyl Salicylate, Hydroxycitronellal, Citronellol, Geraniol, Limonene, Benzyl Benzoate, Farnesol, Benzyl Alcohol, Citral, Eugenol, Isoeugenol

The Story of Asphalt Rainbow

Asphalt Rainbow is an olfactive shout into the urban landscape. The fragrance is inspired by the limitless brilliance of street art, a world alive with color, improvisation, and flux, where every surface can be a canvas and anyone can leave their mark. Asphalt Rainbow tears down the familiar, and rebuilds it in neon, spray, and splatter.

At its core is the rose — dismantled, twisted, and repurposed — each note drawn from the flower or shaped by its edges. Rose fragments are intercepted and layered, mirroring the effects of murals, torn posters, and pasted-over tags. Chaotic, lush, and vividly alive, they collide with metallic, green, and mineral cityscape accents. Petal-like softness, thorny edges, and faint lactonic traces of aerosol give the scent its tactile signature.

Crafted in collaboration with perfumer Cecile Hua of Mane USA and performer Careena Melia, alongside a global network of bombers, buskers, and writers,

Each bottle is hand-filled and housed in a tube with dried rose — to scent drawers, closets, and corners of the city where color and chaos meet.

Inspired by the subversive spirit of street artists, indie fragrance brand Charenton Macerations’s Asphalt Rainbow is a reworked rose accord that scarcely smells like its former floral-self thanks to notes of wood, asphalt, saffron, and even a hint of spray paint. Adding to the rebellious nature, the fragrance is infused into cool graffiti-style illustrated decals—like the scratch-and-sniff stickers of your childhood, only way more awesome.

—Katie Dickens, Style.com

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, EauMG

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, Fragrantica

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, Teen Vogue

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, Colognoisseur

The gray concrete of the urban jungle (literally, in this case) is decorated with flowers, mainly rose, in Asphalt Rainbow by Christopher Street. It's lighter than most summer roses, and quite unique in the way it combines city pungency with the prettiest of flowers.

—Gaia Fishler, The Non-Blonde

Asphalt Rainbow's floral and leaf notes peek in and out of the metallic and earthy background, as though they were growing through a chain-link fence; layering is one of several concepts behind this fragrance, which doesn't evolve in a predictable manner.

—Jessica Murphy, Now Smell This

You would be hard pressed to recreate through perfumery what City Living smells like, but somehow Douglas Bender of Charenton Macerations has done it with his launch of Asphalt Rainbow.  A perfume that captures the urban street-level sturm und drang expertly, by weaving a rose note through leathery florals and asphalt until the midtown rush of traffic and people roars up at you just by smelling your wrist

—Steve Johnson, CaFleureBon

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.

—jtdjtd, Scenthurdle

Part of The Defiance Series