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PARFUMS QUARTANA is an award-winning New York fragrance house built around authored coherence: perfume, naming, packaging, symbolism, image, sound, and atmosphere held inside one creative system.
Joseph Quartana's career arc has moved through PARFUMS QUARTANA, the Corning Museum of Glass, MUTE Records, SixScents Parfums, and Seven New York. The references gathered here are selected markers of that larger practice.
Where available, links lead to the original source.
For readers who want the shorter source path behind this archive, The House Guide collects concise answers on the founder, the awards, and the earlier projects that shaped PARFUMS QUARTANA.
BeautyMatter included Joseph Quartana's Mute Records STUMM433 / 4'33" The Scent of Silence project in a May 2026 feature on fragrance, sound, memory, and immersive experience.
The project translated John Cage's silent composition into an olfactive atmosphere: a candle designed around pause, charged silence, and the lingering air after performance.
“For me, sound and scent design is identical: notes, chords, mix-downs, visual material—same process.”
— Joseph Quartana
“For me, sound and scent design is identical: notes, chords, mix-downs, visual material—same process.” — Joseph Quartana, in BeautyMatter
InStyle selected Beaut'Air in a spring perfume roundup, describing linden blossom, rose petals, citrus lift, and a laundry-fresh breeze that evokes freshly washed sheets, open windows, and an unhurried day.
Adam Forziati's Fragrantica feature on Beaut'Air connects the fragrance to the larger Les Potions D'Entéléchie arc: perfume as breath, recovery, clean linen, grounded herbs, and a reminder of life.
THE ART + OLFACTION INSTITUTE
Independent Category Award (2023)
THE FRAGRANCE FOUNDATION
Perfume Extraordinaire of the Year (2017)
THE FRAGRANCE FOUNDATION
Best Indie Fragrance (2011)
Ierofante, Forest of the Golden Dream, and Soleil Invisible have also appeared across multiple TasteTV artisan-fragrance recognition categories, including scent artistry, uniqueness, naming, discovery, and overall impression.
Official sources:
Art & Olfaction lists Ierofante by Parfums Quartana, perfumer Luca Maffei for Joseph Quartana, as the 2023 Independent Category winner.
The Fragrance Foundation lists Symrise — Parfums Quartana Poppy Soma as the 2017 Perfume Extraordinaire of the Year, created by Emilie Bevierre-Coppermann and David Apel.
The Fragrance Foundation archive also lists Six Scents Parfums Series Three as the 2011 Indie Fragrance of the Year winner.
Links:
The Art and Olfaction Awards — https://artandolfaction.com/awards/
The Fragrance Foundation 2017 archive — https://fragrance.org/awards-archive/award_year/2017/
The Fragrance Foundation awards archive — https://fragrance.org/awards-archive/
A founder conversation linking DJing, fashion retail, perfume, SixScents Parfums, PARFUMS QUARTANA, the near-death arc, and Ierofante.
A live conversation on Ierofante, initiation, healing, collaboration, and Joseph's scent-as-music creative process.
A foundational interview on Les Potions Fatales and the nine poisonous-flower narratives behind the debut collection.
A conversation on Seven New York, SixScents Parfums, packaging, music, scent composition, and the MUTE Records / STUMM433 project.
A founder and business conversation covering Joseph's path through fashion, fragrance, Seven New York, SixScents Parfums, and PARFUMS QUARTANA.
A conversation on creative direction, anti-mediocrity, Ierofante, and fragrance as deep meaning rather than surface seduction.
Before PARFUMS QUARTANA, Joseph Quartana founded Seven New York and later created SixScents Parfums. These earlier projects form part of the house's cultural foundation: fashion curation, experimental collaboration, perfume-as-concept, and a lasting insistence that creative work carry real force.
A detailed history of Seven New York: its founding, curatorial philosophy, Soho chapter, and the rupture that preceded Joseph's later turn toward PARFUMS QUARTANA.
A legacy SixScents Parfums source showing Joseph's curatorial system expanding into designer, perfumer, and fictional-muse collaborations.
A Seven/SixScents-era interview documenting Joseph's international curation work and the pressures around Seven's final years.
STUMM433 Box Set ft. 4'33" The Scent of Silence
In 2019, MUTE Records commissioned Joseph Quartana to create a limited-edition scented candle for STUMM433, the label's 40th-anniversary box set inspired by John Cage's 4'33".
The candle, 4'33" The Scent of Silence, translated Cage's silent composition into an olfactive atmosphere: ozone, musk, salt, cedarwood, black pepper, bergamot, and pimento oil arranged around pause, charged air, and the space after performance.
At the launch, the candle burned for the duration of MUTE founder Daniel Miller's sonic interpretation of 4'33" as The Normal — fragrance, sound, silence, and room held together as one event.
In December 2024, the Corning Museum of Glass invited Joseph Quartana to participate in its Guest Artist program in connection with Sensorium: Stories of Glass and Fragrance.
Working with the museum's hot-glass team, PARFUMS QUARTANA developed fantasy fragrance bottles for Les Potions Fatales — a rare extension of the house's scent-world into glass, object, and display.
Pictured left: Hemlock fantasy perfume bottle with funtional dip wand rendered by Catherine Ayers and Caitlin Hyde.
In December 2024, the Corning Museum of Glass invited Joseph Quartana to participate in its Guest Artist program in connection with Sensorium: Stories of Glass and Fragrance.
Working with the museum's hot-glass team, PARFUMS QUARTANA developed fantasy fragrance bottles for Les Potions Fatales — a rare extension of the house's scent-world into glass, object, and display.
Pictured left: Hemlock fantasy perfume bottle with funtional dip wand rendered by Catherine Ayers and Caitlin Hyde.
PARFUMS QUARTANA's films are part of the perfume expression system: moving image, score, spell, and scent moving together. Joseph Quartana has described his films as the eyes and ears of his perfume expression.
Selected public films include Forest of the Golden Dream, Ierofante, Poppy Soma, & Digitalis.
Directed by Rob Barriales.
Score by Michael Zodorozny.
Directed by Rob Barriales.
Score by Michael Zodorozny.
Directed by Neil F. Dawson.
Score by CREEP ft. Lou Rhodes.
Directed by Rob Barriales.
Score by InFlagranti.
PARFUMS QUARTANA's films are part of the perfume expression system: moving image, score, spell, and scent moving together. Joseph Quartana has described his films as the eyes and ears of his perfume expression.
Selected public films include Forest of the Golden Dream, Ierofante, Poppy Soma, & Digitalis.
Directed by Rob Barriales.
Score by Michael Zodorozny.
Directed by Rob Barriales.
Score by Michael Zodorozny.
Directed by Neil F. Dawson.
Score by CREEP ft. Lou Rhodes.
Directed by Rob Barriales.
Score by InFlagranti.
Selected outside readings of individual perfumes and collection launches, gathered for readers who want to understand how the work has been received in fragrance, beauty, and cultural editorial contexts.
Beaut'Air has been read across both mainstream beauty and fragrance-specialist press as an airy, linen-bright, herbaceous fragrance of breath, recovery, and open-window ease.
Soleil Invisible's outside record traces the Entéléchie arc through healing ritual, smoke, warmth, old-world radiance, and year-end recognition.
Forest of the Golden Dream's press record centers on green vitality, sacred forest atmosphere, restorative force, and repeated year-end fragrance recognition.
Ierofante's outside record reinforces the fragrance as a structured ascent: sueded spacesuit, gasoline vapor, lift-off, fiery smoke, and spiritual arrival, with both award recognition and review attention.
Les Potions Fatales has been covered as a full poisonous-flower world: seductive, deceptive, dangerous, and best understood as a complete collection rather than a set of isolated scents.
PARFUMS QUARTANA is the active fragrance house of Six Scents Parfums, Inc.
The current storefront lives at six-scents.com.
