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24 Oct

Asphalt Rainbow & Street Art Techniques: Subtraction

January 12, 2018
Posted by Douglas Bender
#roseshards, asphalt rainbow, blog, Charenton Macerations, CM2, Craft, Fragrance, gallery, Inspiration, street art, technique
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"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...

01 Oct

From The Underground, Headlines, Macerations

Rose, Street Art, and the CM2 Project

January 12, 2018
Posted by Douglas Bender
#roseshards, blog, Brief, Charenton Macerations, CM2, Douglas Bender, Fragrance, gender, history, indiegogo, Inspiration, rose, street art
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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...

14 Jul

From The Underground, Macerations

A New Chapter Begins…

January 12, 2018
Posted by Douglas Bender
#roseshards, blog, Charenton Macerations, Fragrance, Inspiration, Number 2, teaser
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I am so pleased to finally be able to share some news about Charenton Macerations' follow up fragrance to Christopher Street. This new project has been in the works for the past two years, and...

27 Jun

Macerations

Walking Christopher Street: The Stonewall Inn

November 23, 2019
Posted by Douglas Bender
christopher street, Fragrance, history, Inspiration, pride 2014, queer, riots, stonewall
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Considered the symbolic home of the queer rights movement, no visit to Christopher Street is complete without a visit to The Stonewall Inn.

18 Jun

Macerations

Stonewall, 45 Years Later

January 12, 2018
Posted by Douglas Bender
blog, Charenton Macerations, christopher street, Education, history, Inspiration, stonewall
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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...

27 Feb

Macerations

Inside the Pages of Christopher Street Magazine

January 12, 2018
Posted by Douglas Bender
blog, Charenton Macerations, christopher street, Fragrance, gender, history, Inspiration, magazine, Politics, queer, Research
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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,...

13 Feb

Ingredient Stories, Macerations

Christopher Street – Dance on Skin

January 25, 2018
Posted by Douglas Bender
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At the heart of the Christopher Street fragrance story is the most often asked about olfactive accord: "Dance on Skin." Meant to capture that quintessentially unique je ne sais quoi that is New York...

29 Mar

From The Underground, Gender, Headlines, In The News, Macerations

Christopher Street: Ralf Schwieger and Douglas Bender

January 12, 2018
Posted by Douglas Bender
blog, Charenton Macerations, christopher street, Fragrance, Inspiration, press
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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...

02 Jan

From The Underground, Headlines, Macerations

Christopher Street – From Merchants to Misfits

November 23, 2019
Posted by Douglas Bender
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Take a closer look at some historic moments that helped inspire Charenton Macerations’ Christopher Street. Order your bottle today.

18 Dec

Bottle This, Macerations

The Noisettes ‘Contact’ – Bottle This

Music is incredibly useful in understanding the world of fragrance. Not only is scent constructed in a manner akin to scoring music, but it too is focused on capturing and provoking emotional response. Many...