Barnabé Fillion’s Synesthesia-Inspired Perfume Project, Arpa, Is a Melodic Escape

On a recent winter evening, the perfumer Barnabé Fillion is painting a kaleidoscopic picture: sun-baked orange earth hardened into rivulets and pools, filled with water the color of a green apple Jolly Rancher. Speaking over Zoom from his studio in Paris, the perfumer is talking about the Ethiopian region of Dallol—a fever dream of environmental extremes, and the root idea for one of three debut fragrances from his new project, Arpa. “Dallol, the one that inspired the perfume Arco Spettro, is the place that looks the most like the genesis of the planet,” Fillion says, referring to the astrobiological research… Read Full Article