agar olfactory // damp
damp is a speculative scent designed for a time when soil takes over abandoned anthropogenic structures. this scent is composed as a single molecule that is responsible for the majority of soil's smell.
notes: dampness, wet soil, earth
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. soil bacteria celebrate wildly as rain showers dampen their surface. 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 as wet soil.
30 ml / 1 oz or 2ml sample
* damp comes packaged in sustainable compostable packaging.
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agar olfactory (based in chicago) is a project in speculative olfaction by agustine zegers. it imagines climate disaster and apocalyptic scenarios and the type of smell landscapes that would exist in such events. it collapses timespace by activating embodied intensities and inviting us to adjust our palettes as we peer into the future.
as a project, it acknowledges the layered (and currently unfolding) apocalypses of our time, including, but not limited to: the sixth mass extinction event, the colonial apocalypse of 1492, and the covid-19 pandemic.
the project offers wearable olfactory works to invite sustained engagement with quantum queer time and to allow somatic alignment with future ecological states and eras.
agar olfactory has been crucially nurtured by many mycelial collaborators, thinkers, and friends including but not limited to: Isabel Lee, Jesse Mackenzie, Lee Rae Walsh, Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo, Oscar Salguero, Nontsikelelo Mutiti, Egbert Vongmalaithong, Mariana Parisca, Constantina Zavitsanos, Grace Denis, Queer Art, Murmurs, Abrons Art Center, Everything, and Olfactory Art Keller.
damp is a speculative scent designed for a time when soil takes over abandoned anthropogenic structures. this scent is composed as a single molecule that is responsible for the majority of soil's smell.
notes: dampness, wet soil, earth
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. soil bacteria celebrate wildly as rain showers dampen their surface. 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 as wet soil.
30 ml / 1 oz or 2ml sample
* damp comes packaged in sustainable compostable packaging.
-
agar olfactory (based in chicago) is a project in speculative olfaction by agustine zegers. it imagines climate disaster and apocalyptic scenarios and the type of smell landscapes that would exist in such events. it collapses timespace by activating embodied intensities and inviting us to adjust our palettes as we peer into the future.
as a project, it acknowledges the layered (and currently unfolding) apocalypses of our time, including, but not limited to: the sixth mass extinction event, the colonial apocalypse of 1492, and the covid-19 pandemic.
the project offers wearable olfactory works to invite sustained engagement with quantum queer time and to allow somatic alignment with future ecological states and eras.
agar olfactory has been crucially nurtured by many mycelial collaborators, thinkers, and friends including but not limited to: Isabel Lee, Jesse Mackenzie, Lee Rae Walsh, Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo, Oscar Salguero, Nontsikelelo Mutiti, Egbert Vongmalaithong, Mariana Parisca, Constantina Zavitsanos, Grace Denis, Queer Art, Murmurs, Abrons Art Center, Everything, and Olfactory Art Keller.
damp is a speculative scent designed for a time when soil takes over abandoned anthropogenic structures. this scent is composed as a single molecule that is responsible for the majority of soil's smell.
notes: dampness, wet soil, earth
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. soil bacteria celebrate wildly as rain showers dampen their surface. 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 as wet soil.
30 ml / 1 oz or 2ml sample
* damp comes packaged in sustainable compostable packaging.
-
agar olfactory (based in chicago) is a project in speculative olfaction by agustine zegers. it imagines climate disaster and apocalyptic scenarios and the type of smell landscapes that would exist in such events. it collapses timespace by activating embodied intensities and inviting us to adjust our palettes as we peer into the future.
as a project, it acknowledges the layered (and currently unfolding) apocalypses of our time, including, but not limited to: the sixth mass extinction event, the colonial apocalypse of 1492, and the covid-19 pandemic.
the project offers wearable olfactory works to invite sustained engagement with quantum queer time and to allow somatic alignment with future ecological states and eras.
agar olfactory has been crucially nurtured by many mycelial collaborators, thinkers, and friends including but not limited to: Isabel Lee, Jesse Mackenzie, Lee Rae Walsh, Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo, Oscar Salguero, Nontsikelelo Mutiti, Egbert Vongmalaithong, Mariana Parisca, Constantina Zavitsanos, Grace Denis, Queer Art, Murmurs, Abrons Art Center, Everything, and Olfactory Art Keller.