CM2 Project - Charenton Macerations

19 Jun

Scent Bombs & Other Disruptions

January 12, 2018
Posted by Douglas Bender
asphalt rainbow, blog, Charenton Macerations, christopher street, De Sade, Fragrance, graffiti, history, Inspiration, street art
Leave a comment

If you're anything like me, when you hear the word disruption, you probably think of something meant to interfere with your day (i.e. a stalled subway making you late, or a hyperactive child screaming...

18 Jun

CM2 Project, Macerations

Fragrance: The Original Disruptive Art?

January 12, 2018
Posted by Douglas Bender
#roseshards, asphalt rainbow, blog, Charenton Macerations, christopher street, Fragrance, graffiti, street art, technique
Leave a comment

Street art, graffiti, urban art... this unapologetically disruptive art form goes by many names. Regardless of preferred word (or underlying philosophical beliefs), all terms refer to a disruptive force in action. The desire to...

05 May

CM2 Project, Macerations

Asphalt Rainbow & Street Art Techniques: Stencil Gallery

November 22, 2019
Posted by Douglas Bender
#roseshards, asphalt rainbow, blog, Charenton Macerations, gallery, graffiti, stencil, street art, technique
Leave a comment

Asphalt Rainbow Series exploring some of the street art techniques used in crafting the fragrance. A photo gallery of Street Art Stencil Work. #roseshards

29 Apr

CM2 Project, Macerations

Asphalt Rainbow & Street Art Techniques: Stencils

January 12, 2018
Posted by Douglas Bender
#roseshards, asphalt rainbow, blog, Charenton Macerations, CM2, Craft, Fragrance, Inspiration, street art, technique
Leave a comment

Part Two in the Asphalt Rainbow series on Street Art Technique & Olfaction takes a closer look at stencil art and the process of translating stencil design into fragrance. Often credited as the earliest known form of...

22 Mar

CM2 Project, From The Underground, Macerations, Product

Asphalt Rainbow – The Brief

November 21, 2019
Posted by Douglas Bender
#roseshards, asphalt rainbow, blog, Brief, Charenton Macerations, Fragrance, Process, street art
Leave a comment

Distortion. Transformation. Impermanence. The original olfactive story of Charenton Macerations’ street art rose inspired Asphalt Rainbow – in brief.

08 Nov

CM2 Project, Macerations

Asphalt Rainbow: Why Fragrance & Street Art

January 12, 2018
Posted by Douglas Bender
#roseshards, asphalt rainbow, blog, Charenton Macerations, CM2, Education, Fragrance, graffiti, Inspiration, street art, technique
Leave a comment

“Art must serve a cause; not a military cause, or political, but a social cause.” - Blek le Rat Since the very beginning of the Asphalt Rainbow project, I have been quite adamant that the purpose...

06 Nov

CM2 Project, Macerations

Asphalt Rainbow: Street Art Inspiration (Gallery)

January 12, 2018
Posted by Douglas Bender
#roseshards, asphalt rainbow, blog, Charenton Macerations, CM2, Fragrance, graffiti, Inspiration, photo, slaps, stickers, street art, writers
Leave a comment

The worlds of scent and graffiti collide in Asphalt Rainbow, the latest from Charenton Macerations. Inside this gallery, you'll find a series of amazing street art & technique that helped inspired the final Asphalt...

24 Oct

CM2 Project, Macerations

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
Leave a comment

"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...