Scent Story
Monsters are real. This much I know. They are tied to us, by place and time.
They are the monuments to our sins.
They make no sound, they exist in no real memory.
They dwell in dreams, our created duality.
Out of time, and out of place, they exist within the threads of fate, the fabric of reality.
They are neither angels nor devils, though many have called them so.
Their faces are painted by dreams, by the things we know.
They flare from fire, a smoke from the heart’s desire; sweet and scandalous, dead and well.
Not what you’d expect, from a inhabitant of Hell.
They sit in my parlor, and eat spiced cake,
Cinamon, they said, reminds them of the Bloody Lake.
They prefer sweet to sour, the aged hardwood floor, the leather of chairs and the ebony door.
They give me advice, and are real I swear,
Just because you don’t see them doesn’t mean they aren’t there.
At least, that’s what I tell people, when I see them everywhere.
VISUAL DEVELOPMENT
Everything begins with pen, paper, and a desire for a wonderfully strange experience.
PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT
My research led me to two points of olfactory interest: smokes and poisons. I decided to create to variations of the same scent:
Six orange smoke bombs in a ventilated leather case for easy scent dispersal
A "splat ball" filled with the scent that can be broken open and "splatted" onto your own skin, or thrown and splatted onto someone else.
Creating a Smoke
Smoke bombs can be purchased both retail and wholesale wise, and in multiple colors. I chose to work with orange, as it strongly complimented my scent story.
Smoke bombs are compact, bold, and can be manipulated to create dramatic flourishes of color, which achieved the unusually alluring aesthetic I was aiming to achieve.
Making the "Blood Drop"
The "Blood Drop" was much more challenging to produce. Where smoke bombs could be bought and have the scent worked into their powder, the Blood Drop needed to be created using alginate and sodium chloride to create a durable yet breakable skin to encase the black balm.
FINAL PRODUCTS
