Explore the frontiers, invoke the imagination, and cultivate a multiple elsewhere, balanced between the obvious and the abstract. Shaped, from the very beginning, by the unique worldview of the founder of Atelier Des Ors. Encourage a change in perspective, offer a different point of view, and present things in a new light...
 
A hybrid stance, like the seahorse, neither terrestrial nor marine, neither feminine nor masculine, neither real nor unreal, yet all of these at once. Question. Use the obvious as a bridge to abstraction for those willing to see it, and draw from the material to open up this imagination.


Pierre Soulages' approach nourished the new collection because it relies on the evidence of black to reach an abstract elsewhere that he named: the «outrenoir» (beyond black).

“Black, for me, has pictorial qualities, it’s a strong, violent color. You put black on a dark color suddenly, the dark color lights up.” - Pierre Soulages. Painter.

Each of the materials, in turn highlighted in this new Abstraction collection, is central, evident, the common thread of each fragrance. The starting point towards abstraction. Just like Soulages' black, the material in each creation is very "readable" and majestic but also, like Soulages with light on black, chiseled and metamorphosed by other materials.Material is no longer one but multiple, emphasized, exacerbated, transmuted. What seemed known and obvious to us is no longer so.


The Abstraction Collection is an exploration at the frontiers of the evidence of olfactory material. An exploration that shows known and almost common smells in a different way but whose evocative power is very strong: Coffee & Cocoa. Materials that have crossed borders for centuries, crisscrossed trade routes, opened up perspectives…

Worked with chiaroscuro, hybrid associations, between here and elsewhere, suggestive enough to open the imagination and abstract enough so that everything can be imagined.



Cocoa is obvious.
Subtle transmutation of «cacao».

Kimiya: from the Arabic al-kīmiyā meaning alchemy. Transmutation of metals into gold, here of evidence into abstraction, of material into immaterial, of one reality into another.

Cocoa Kimiya: a creation around a dark and intense cocoa contrasted by the light of a singular and radiant cardamom. Rich in natural and exceptional raw materials, this 2nd extract is also at 40%, a concentration of materials as if enhanced. It oscillates between shadow and light, shine and mystery, addiction and bitterness.

“I was inspired by the work of Pierre Soulages and more particularly by his walnut stain creations.” - Marie Salamagne

Olfactory notes:
Fragrance notes: cocoa absolute, green cardamom, nut, patchouli from Indonesia, vanilla from Madagascar