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Ten years of work, celebrated in a selection of Aesop stores dedicated exclusively to the fragrances I created. Enjoy

@aesop by @barnabefillion

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Ten years of work, celebrated in a selection of Aesop stores dedicated exclusively to the fragrances I created. Enjoy

@aesop by @barnabefillion

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Ten years of work, celebrated in a selection of Aesop stores dedicated exclusively to the fragrances I created. Enjoy

@aesop by @barnabefillion

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Very special to see 8 of all the fragrances I created with Aesop, relaunched with their radical ingredients.
@aesop by @barnabefillion

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Some of our radical ingredients.
@aesop by @barnabefillion

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A beautiful installation at the Tokyo National Museum, bringing the eight fragrances together again to mark their relaunch.
@aesop by @barnabefillion

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Every element produced becomes part of an archive - a modular structure, like all Arpa objects, designed to be kept rather than left behind. by @barnabefillion

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Shaped by @jochen.holz, Arpa’s bottle proportions follow the hand’s movement, sculptural as much as functional. The dropper isn’t just part of the bottle’s design - it’s an invitation to a personal gesture, the one you take the time for a suspended moment. by @barnabefillion

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A language of color developed through scent, as an approach to composition - where color becomes grammar and formulation, carrying as much importance as the fragrance itself. by @barnabefillion

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Dans « L’Almanach 26 », l’exposition de Barnabé Fillion (@barnabefillion), à la croisée de son parcours entre parfumerie, botanique, arts visuels et design, s’inscrit dans une recherche menée autour d’un “iris mutanti”, développé comme une possible nouvelle espèce par le parfumeur et son studio : Iris Mutanti Officinalis. À travers ce projet, il présente une série d’études nocturnes consacrées à cette fleur mutante, à la frontière entre apparition botanique, fiction et mémoire perceptive.

🇬🇧 This exhibition, at the intersection of his career in perfumery, botany, visual arts, and design, is part of a research project centered on an “iris mutanti,” developed as a potential new species by Barnabé Fillion and his studio: Iris Mutanti Officinalis. Through this project, he presents a series of nocturnal studies dedicated to this mutant flower, straddling the boundary between botanical phenomenon, fiction, and perceptual memory.

Commissariat : Franck Gautherot et Seungduk Kim
📷 Rebecca Fanuele © Consortium Museum (@rebeccafanuelephoto)
Avec le soutien de Mane et @arpastudios

#Almanach26 #ConsortiumMuseum #Dijon #BarnabeFillion taken in Consortium Museum by @barnabefillion

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The essence of time - a perfume fades, but it never truly disappears.

Barnabé develops perfume formulas as an act of precision - building the architecture of the invisible, searching for the decisive instant that escapes us, framing the echos of time.

Soap, the frame of the scent, captures a geological time and reflects the raw texture of nature, the ingredients of our perfume.

Kapsel, with hinoki wood, an ancient and resistant material building the millennial temples. Japanese cypress, prized for centuries for its scent - each ring of its wood marks a year lived by the organism; the ring becomes the physical, visible, tactile measure of time.

The roots of the hinoki tree connect to the iris roots, the main ingredient of the perfume. Iris, the rarest raw materials in the fragrance industry, is extracted from the plant’s rhizome, slowly dried and reduced to powder before being processed to yield its olfactory material, revealing its powdery, floral scent. Kapsel is not minimal, it is radical. Radical, from the term « radici, » meaning roots: the seed that bursts open and lets the flower emerge.

« From the knots of the wood you can see from which side the tree soared in the sky, which side of it absorbed the southern light, whether it was born in a crowded forest, in a meadow or on the edge of the forest, » wrote Giuseppe Penone in 1970. by @barnabefillion

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Barnabé Fillion (1981, Paris), the founder of Arpa, lives and works between Paris, Venice, and Kyoto. A French perfumer whose path to the world of scent is unconventional, rooted initially in photography and medicinal botany. Growing up in Paris, he developed visual art practices, sensitive to its tactile world, which later informed his synesthetic approach to fragrance.

This background allows him to treat scent-making as a narrative process, often inspired by the raw textures of natural ingredients, soundscapes, and geological time. Supported by his singular relationship with @mane_1871_ , for the last 15 years he has had ongoing access to their renowned rare materials.

Barnabé’s practice is often described as botanical and atmospheric: a particular affinity for woods, spices, and resins, used to create fragrances that feel grounded yet transportive, elevating the senses and the concept of perfumery. He integrates organic materials (soil, wood, plants) with industrial elements, breaking down the artificial divide between manufactured culture and raw nature. With Arpa, he takes this same technique elsewhere, revealing a different direction.

With a raw elegance in his work, he avoids any synthetic, loud top notes in favor of deep, earthy complexity. His approach is multidisciplinary, often starting with a specific image, a certain light, a texture of a memory… which he then translates as the intersection of nature and culture: representing a profound inspiration, moving from viewing the environment as a passive subject to an active interconnected matter. Physical landscapes become materials in themselves. Barnabé continues this tradition by letting nature gradually reveal itself.

With Arpa, Barnabé has built a creative studio, extending his practice into the intersection of scent, music, and visual art, in an architectural space developed with the work of his friend, the architect @federicomasotto_architecte by @barnabefillion

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