agar olfactory is a project in speculative olfaction ◌
an exercise in planetary kinship ∴
a deviant vapor ⋰
a participatory spillage ⋮
an unfolding of worlds  ⋯
a collect call from the planetary commons ⋱
a vegetal riot ∴
a sentient machine ⋰
a proliferative vehicle for time travel ⋮
a molecular epiphany ⎔
an erratic rhizome network ⋯
a fungal interrelation ⋱
a more-than-human weather report ∴
a coalescent fermentation ⋰
an interspecies confluence ⋮
an offering of earthly poiesis... ⋯



you can find us at
Everything (Chicago)
Feature Flora (Raleigh)
Stéle (NYC)
TwoTwo (Oakland)



you can contact us at
smell@speculativescent.com



you can learn more about us at
⋰ Dazed: These perfumes are bottling the scent of the internet
⋰ Dazed: Apocalyptic scents, The perfumes bottling the smell of
    societal collapse

⋰ Perfume Room Podcast: Perfuming the Apocalypse,
    Unscented  Perfumes, and Fragrant Time Portals

⋰ Haloscope: Mushrooms, Macbooks, and other Perfumed
   
Premonitions of the Apocalypse(s)
⋰ Odd Critic: What Does Our Fate Smell Like?



more questions? visit our ⋰ FAQ
we are going on vacation! orders placed between nov 10-16 ship by nov 18


 

30mL ℮ 1 oz

year 1999: the y2k bug looms in every computational system in the world. as midnight strikes, entropy cascades every hour as time zones catch up to the disastrous inability to process the new millennium. computers overheat in confusion, fax machines whirr with incorrect calendar dates, and hot wires melt their protective encasing in technological protest.

notes: hot fax machine, mouse pad, mac carcass, tattered wire
ingredients: alcohol (SDA), parfum


what people are saying...

scent to disassemble my electronics to…
this smells so exactly like a sheet of paper warm and freshly spat out of an office printer that I can almost taste it. 
this smells like melting wires. I'm legitimately amazed.



   
 

30mL ℮ 1 oz

˖ . ݁⊹ cereale ⊹ . ݁˖ . ݁

year 2030: wheat and rye monocultures are threatened globally by an unknown infection event. speculators inflate the price of all remaining glutinous products and shoppers amass them in bulk, not knowing what comes next. food scientists create a scent to appease the taste for bread that threatens to remain unfulfilled in this ecocide: cereale.

notes: rye toast, yeasting dough, butter

ingredients: alcohol (SDA), parfum, carvone, limonene 
* this formulation contains dairy

what people are saying...

this might be the most delighted i've been by a photorealistic scent
if you want to feel like you are in a petri dish or entangled in a web of gluten, this is the scent for you.
think of the timeline of bread, starting from its beginning.



     
 

30mL ℮ 1 oz
⊹ . .🥽 . ݁˖ . ݁⊹ plástica ⊹ . ݁˖ . ݁♳ ⊹ . ݁

year 2055: the biomass of plastics on earth reaches a new apex. a collective consciousness of plastics forms, uniting all polymers as a singular force. plastics begin promiscuously exchanging odors and information as their awareness of each other grows—creating a subtly symbiotic atmosphere of polystyrenes, ethylenes, and propylenes in the process of reclaiming their agency.

notes: assorted plastics, raspberry, carbonated water 
ingredients: alcohol (SDA), parfum, benzyl benzoate, limonene

what people are saying...

well they didn't lie it sure is plastic. smells like pressing your nose to barbie's head and taking a deep whiff of her scalp

it's almost like opening packaging, rubbing together thick plastic wrapping, or smelling a glossy PVC object that has been warmed by your hands. 
smells like hot extruded PVA





30mL ℮ 1 oz
˖ . ݁𓍊𓋼. ݁ matsu musk ⊹ . ݁𓍊𓋼 ⊹

year 2077: humans have begun incorporating mycelium into their routines, structures, and medicinal systems in exponential ways. the increasingly abundant quantity of fungi in human bodies begins to create a communal bodily emanation uncannily similar to mushrooms. in the warm crevice of an armpit, you find a fruiting body.

notes: mushroom gills, skin

ingredients: alcohol (SDA), parfum

what people are saying...

mushroom! i don’t always like to eat them, but this smells really cool! it smells rubbery – like i can almost feel the jiggling of the gills under my fingertips. wow. 
this is the first mushroom-note fragrance i've tried that actually does a photo-realistic mushroom scent, specifically I think cremini or young portobello.

 it’s a little silly and fun and i like wearing it when i’m in a weird mood because its a bit weird to smell like a mushroom



     
  

30mL ℮ 1 oz
⊹ . ݁☁︎˖ . ݁ damp ⊹ . ݁☁︎˖ . ݁

year 3030: human extinction has allowed flora to propagate wildly, bursting through concrete and rigid architectural structures. the skin of the earth has restored itself to a microbially-dense state. damp gives you a taste of this future; it’s a gentle whisper of a musty room in the middle of a forest. the breath of the earth in uni-molecule form.

notes: dampness, wet soil, earth

ingredients: alcohol (SDA), parfum

what people are saying...

perfect petrichor/soil smell. accurate. so comforting. 
dirt and wet cement... :3 

absolutely incredible and photorealistic, truly the smell of forest soil after rain 



       


2mL ℮ .07 oz x 5


⊹ . 🛒 . ݁˖ .⊹ ݁ sample pack ⊹ . ݁˖ . ݁🛒 ⊹

years 1999-3030: jump temporal planes by experiencing all the agar scents in one pack. every pack includes five fragrance samples in 2 mL glass vials in our signature biocellulose packaging.





our current scent rotation is:
cero (1999)
cereale (2030)
plástica (2055) 
matsutake musk (2077)
damp (3030)