PARFUMS QUARTANA was invited by the Corning Museum of Glass as artists-in-residence for an entire week to design and create four fully-functioning fantasy fragrance bottles from our award-winning poisonous florals collection Les Potions Fatales, together with the museum's talented hot glass team of Catherine Ayers, Caitlin Hyde, Chris Rochelle, and Helen Tegeler.

We are thrilled to share these conceptual one-off bottles for Wolfsbane, Poppy Soma, Hemlock, and Bloodflower with you and hope you'll enjoy them.

WOLFSBANE

by Catherine Ayers

Assisted by Chris Rochelle &

Helen Tegeler

CONCEPT PERFUME BOTTLE

The fantasy bottle design for WOLFSBANE eau de parfum is a stalk of exaggerated, surrealistic Wolfsbane flowers stuffed into a 19th century, skull-emblazoned absinthe bottle with the flowers serving as a removable dipping wand and the absinthe bottle serving as the base.

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HEMLOCK

by Catherine Ayers & Caitlin Hyde

Assisted by Chris Rochelle &

Helen Tegeler

CONCEPT PERFUME BOTTLE

For the HEMLOCK fantasy bottle, we envisioned a black vinyl-clad hand reaching out of ominous black liquid contained in a “metal” chalice, and proffering a bouquet of small white poisonous Hemlock flowers. The bouquet and hand serve as the dip wand and the chalice as the bottle base.

Poison Hemlock was served to condemned prisoners in Ancient Greece via chalice, so for the fragrance composition perfumer Christelle Laprade rendered the poison as a liquid black vinyl accord coursing through an otherwise green grassy setting, in order to highlight the contrast between the natural and deliberately unnatural notes in the formula.

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