Best Laboratory Perfumes to Shop for – Zuza Mengham

Scent becomes tactile, taking on shape, colour and texture, in an intriguing collaboration between artist Zuza Mengham and fragrance maker Laboratory Perfumes.

For each of the perfume brand’s five gender-neutral fragrances:

1. Atlas
2. Amber
3. Gorse
4. Samphire
5. Tonka

Mengham created a different crystal-shaped resin sculpture to respond to its complex notes. The result is a melange of shades and hues, speckles and spots, whirls and waves. For Samphire, whose scent notes reach deep into the sea, Mengham sculpted a piece whose tinted layers create a water-like effect. Amber, a fresh scent with woody undertones, inspired a sculpture that features a clear green tip melded with a reddish-brown base.

A tactual combination of angles and smooth planes, each sculpture offers a range of strikingly different viewpoints, encapsulating the many-faceted character of each perfume. ‘It would be impossible to make a fixed representation of a fragrance,’ Mengham says. ‘Different ingredients will be more or less influential to different people and their own visceral associations.’ Still, her scent-inspired sculptures universally instill a craving to touch them and somehow breathe them in. Fresh New Colors in perfumes are inspired from the highest grade Pantone tcx books.