#roseshards - Charenton Macerations

18 Jun

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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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“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
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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...

29 Oct

Macerations

The Mythological Rose

September 18, 2020
Posted by Douglas Bender
#roseshards, asphalt rainbow, blog, Charenton Macerations, CM2, Fragrance, Greek, history, Inspiration, Mythology, roman, rose
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There is no denying that as human beings, we sometimes try to communicate with one another using roses. It is a flower ritualized and revered like no other in our history. But what exactly are we...

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
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"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...

10 Oct

Macerations

Asphalt Rainbow & the Story of Rose: Alexander

January 12, 2018
Posted by Douglas Bender
#roseshards, Alexander the Great, asphalt rainbow, blog, Charenton Macerations, CM2, Egypt, Fragrance, graffiti, history, rose, street art
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The #Roseshards Story begins with tales from the ancient world of Alexander the Great: rose aficionado and early graffiti artist. For more information on the Asphalt Rainbow project, please check out the Olfactive Story of Asphalt Rainbow. Early...

01 Oct

From The Underground, Headlines, Macerations

Rose, Street Art, and the CM2 Project

January 12, 2018
Posted by Douglas Bender
#roseshards, blog, Brief, Charenton Macerations, CM2, Douglas Bender, Fragrance, gender, history, indiegogo, Inspiration, rose, street art
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The CM2 Project: Inspired by Street Art Disrupt expectations. From its ability to distort perceptions or transform the ambiance of any environment, to its all-too temporary embrace with our skin - not to mention our...