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The Perfumes

”My belief is that perfume is a nexus for sharing. There are bridges, correspondances, vibrations, between perfume and the visual arts.”

”I felt the need to create a work with a message made of an alchemy of the seen and the unseen; albeit smelled and felt. This perfume brand now exists thanks to the magic of my meeting Pierre Dinand and perfumers Jean-Louis Sieuzac et Dominique Ropion.”

Miles Wambaugh’s perfumes are unique olfactory mirages and visions. Each perfume manifests one of his visions, one of his paintings. Colors, vibrations, motion, hues; scents and paintings echo and color one another.

The perfumes are the creations of Dominique Ropion’s and Jean-Louis Sieuzac’s, both perfumers for IFF. They have priviledged a great number of natural ingredients produced by the Laboratoire Monique Rémy in order for Miles’s colored resonances to vibrate.

The collection consists of five perfumes which correspond to five paintings: Coup d’Etat, Sure Shot, Mood for Oud, Son of A Gun, Hot Shot. Perfumes to be shared, bearing enigmatic names which make sense both in English and French. Names which sound and resonate, revealing the immediate atmosphere of the perfume they transcribe.

The perfumes were elaborated with a great many natural ingredients to depict the paintings’ vibrant lively color. They are also very concentrated at over 20% and are known as « extraits de parfum » with exceptional lasting intensity. These perfumes are as rich and potent as the works that introduce them.

”Each one of my perfumes corresponds to a poetic and carnal vision that I have chosen.”

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The Paintings

”I live and express art through painting… I communicate and share it. The aesthetics is therefore a reason to live, the guiding principle of my existence.”

“Artistic expression opens onto visions of the ideal , a well-being for oneself and others.”

Each piece is created with a mixture of media: oil, acrylic, pastels, charcoals and graphite pencil. Miles brings to life and gives shape to subject matter on a variety of substances. Each of Miles’ picture is at the core of the brand. An original painting signed by the artist is therefore displayed as a 180° panoramic view in each perfume case making it a collector’s item.

Certain paintings are light and colorful, others dark and nocturnal. Torment, softness, movement, silhouettes, the sea, the earth, the sky, fire or chaos. One is free to read, see or imagine, to feel and sense what one perceives or chooses to perceive. The experience is subjective and personal; as is that of one’s own emotions.

The Paintings

The Bottle

Miles Wambaugh has drawn and created the bottle for his perfumes in close collaboration with Pierre Dinand, as a powerful symbolic object, multi-dimensional and sensory.

Designer

Pierre Dinand

In perfume-making, Pierre Dinand is considered as one of the most prominent designers of perfume bottles in the world. His creations are many and legendary, a signature spanning a career of over fifty years: Opium by Yves Saint Laurent; Femme by Rochas; Amarige by Givenchy; Eternity by Calvin Klein; Armani by Armani; Eau Dynamisante by Clarins… are among the thousand he has designed.
Powerful and strong, the bottle takes over the hand of the holder. It is undoubtedly unique inasmuch as no one is able to say what shape it has or what it looks like. Actually, Miles Wambaugh creates in order to let one’s imagination interpret freely. At first sight, the glass bottle is massive, heavy, vertically fashioned like a high-rise building. It looks as though it were whistling a New York tune from the 30’s, very architectural.
The bottle is capped with an original metallic shell that suggests holes, like a barrel chamber. A virile bottle, almost sexual, to hold perfumes with strong idiosyncrasies. There is also a mechanical side to it, a flip. This bottle is a weapon for perfume, a weapon of seduction. A lighter which sets senses afire.
The Bottle

The Perfumers

Dominique Ropion and Jean-Louis Sieuzac are renowned perfumers who have known each other for years. A story of friendship and perfumery that Miles Wambaugh honors for his first collection.

Perfumer

Dominique Ropion

Dominique Ropion was introduced very early on to fragrances. Both his mother and grandfather worked for Roure, now Givaudan. He would spend part of his summer vacation weighing ingredients in place of the firm laboratory’s staff.

Dominique Ropion has been Maître parfumeur at IFF since the year 2000. He is the author and co-author of a wide range of prestigious perfumes for luxury brands or high perfumery. His acquired name of « Master of the flowers » is well deserved, Dominique knows how to work passionately and patiently with almost indomitable flowers like the tuberose or jasmine. Dominique Ropion has worked for the best: Christian Dior, Thierry Mugler, Lancôme, Givenchy, Frédéric Malle, Issey Miyake, Yves Saint-Laurent, Paco Rabanne and The Body Shop.

Perfumer

Jean-Louis Sieuzac

Jean-Louis Sieuzac also started his career in perfume making working for Roure, where he met Dominque Ropion. The two friends work together. Jean-Louis Sieuzac has created outstanding perfumes which remain as iconic references such as Bel Ami by Hermès, Fahrenheit and Dune by Dior or the undenied masterpiece Opium by Yves Saint-Laurent. He has also collaborated with Shiseido, Oscar de la Renta.

On Pierre Dinand’s advice, Miles Wambaugh hoped to work with this incredible duo knowing that they would enable him to truly explore and express his universe before translating it into perfumes.

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