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Joseph Quartana, founder and creative force behind Parfums Quartana. Photo by Sonny Vandevelde.
Joseph Quartana, founder and creative force behind Parfums Quartana.
PARFUMS QUARTANA creates rare perfumes for transformation, seduction, vitality, initiation, and becoming — fragrances that ask something of the wearer and leave a charge in the air.
Joseph Quartana’s work began in the charged spaces where fashion, music, nightlife, and culture become atmosphere.
Before PARFUMS QUARTANA, he founded Seven New York, the influential avant-garde concept boutique that helped make cutting-edge fashion futures legible before the market caught up. Seven championed designers whose conviction would later shape global fashion — including Raf Simons, Anthony Vaccarello, Kim Jones, Haider Ackermann, Jeremy Scott, Bernhard Willhelm, Gareth Pugh, Henrik Vibskov, Threeasfour and others.
He later created SixScents Parfums, a collaborative fragrance project pairing visionary fashion designers with accomplished perfumers. SixScents became the bridge between fashion-world atmosphere and fine fragrance.
PARFUMS QUARTANA is the place where Joseph’s own vision became a house.
Poppy Soma and Ierofante were consecutive QUARTANA releases, each recognized in a major blind-judged award context.
Poppy Soma won The Fragrance Foundation’s Perfume Extraordinaire award in 2017. Ierofante won the Art & Olfaction Independent Category Award in 2023.
The house did it twice, back to back, with the work hidden from the judges’ eyes.
Poppy Soma and Ierofante were consecutive QUARTANA releases, each recognized in a major blind-judged award context.
Poppy Soma won The Fragrance Foundation’s Perfume Extraordinaire award in 2017. Ierofante won the Art & Olfaction Independent Category Award in 2023.
The house did it twice, back to back, with the work hidden from the judges’ eyes.
THE ART + OLFACTION INSTITUTE
Independent Category Award (2023)
THE FRAGRANCE FOUNDATION
Perfume Extraordinaire of the Year (2017)
THE FRAGRANCE FOUNDATION
Indie Fragrance of the Year (2011)
For concise answers about the house, founder, awards, and collections, visit The House Guide.
PARFUMS QUARTANA is built as a world of connected scent thresholds. Each collection has its own emotional logic, but all belong to the same discipline: perfume as atmosphere, ritual, and transformation.
The debut world of PARFUMS QUARTANA: dark romance, fatal flowers, seduction, catharsis, and the knowledge that death can be a door one returns from. Here, venom is alchemically transmuted into golden light.
The golden path of the house: Forest of the Golden Dream, Soleil Invisible, and Beaut’Air. These perfumes turn toward life force, breath, inner radiance, restoration, and the creative current that lets beauty, desire, work, love, and art continue.
The threshold world of smoke, amber, leather, revelation, and sacred ascent. Ierofante is the house’s award-winning guide through this arc: a fragrant breadcrumb trail back to Heaven.
PARFUMS QUARTANA treats fragrance as a serious authored medium. Formula, name, bottle, box, image, sounds, symbols, and atmosphere are all parts of one system.
Some perfumes move through shadow. Others return the body to light. All are made under the same discipline: nothing is released until we feel it cannot be further improved.
That is what we mean by Slow Perfumes.
“Blowing people’s minds is something I find rewarding.”
— Joseph Quartana
MUTE Records commissioned him to create a scented candle for STUMM433, the label’s John Cage 4’33” tribute box set — translating silence, charged air, and the space after performance into scent.
The Corning Museum of Glass invited him into its Guest Artist program for Sensorium: Stories of Glass and Fragrance, where PARFUMS QUARTANA extended Les Potions Fatales into sculptural glass flacons.
These projects reveal the house’s deeper practice: scent as atmosphere, object, sound, ritual, and memory.
The clearest way into parfums quartana is through a discovery set. begin with the Complete Discovery Set, The Magic Garden, or The Starlight.
Nine fragrances from Les Potions Fatales : Poppy Soma, Venetian Belladonna, Midnight Datura, Bloodflower, Digitalis, Hemlock, Lily of the Valley, Mandrake, Wolfsbane.
Three fragrances from Les Potions D'Entéléchie : Forest of the Golden Dream, Soleil Invisible, Beaut'Air.
All thirteen fragrances from Les Potions Fatales, Les Potions D'Entéléchie, & Les Potions D'Arcanes: Ierofante, Poppy Soma, Venetian Belladonna, Midnight Datura, Bloodflower, Digitalis, Hemlock, Lily of the Valley, Mandrake, Wolfsbane, Forest of the Golden Dream, Soleil Invisible, Beaut'Air.
