One Note I Cannot Name

A perfumer can identify almost anything by scent. Then a woman passes him on a Paris street carrying one note he cannot name. Ten original story songs follow a gifted but solitary Paris perfumer from the first memories that taught him to read the world by smell to the moment his precision becomes fixation. He tests skin, powder, smoke, amber, jasmine and rose; keeps notes; ruins formulas; and gradually understands that naming a stranger’s scent has become a desire to possess something that was never offered to him. She is not a romantic prize and this is not a love story. It is a record about expertise, obsession, self-deception and the trace that remains after everything volatile has disappeared. Cinematic chamber pop, nocturnal art-pop, piano, organic rhythm sections and strings, carried by one close, dry adult male voice.

Human ideas and creative direction: Neuro Gramophone Music and visual production: AI-assisted