Love Exposure

Le Cinema Olfactif is a creative collaboration between the Soho House and La Folie A Plusieurs that brings together the mediums of cinema and perfumery to create a new form of sensory engagement. Exclusively designed for the Soho House Cinema Program, for select screenings an internationally renowned perfumer is invited to create a scent inspired by his or her personal response to a moment in a film. The scent is then incorporated into the viewer experience during the film screening. For Love Exposure, perfumer Mark Buxton was inspired by Sion Sono's film by the same name:

"I was inspired by the films mixture of love, lust, violence, sex and religion. A story told with a certain kind of humor and tension that builds up and leads you to an unforeseeable ending. — love. A delicate floral scent, somehow innocent, but heady and strong at the same time. — lust. Clean, but kinky animal notes which run through the scent like a red thread; costus, indol and cumin and ambergris. — violence. The surprising bloody note from the bucchu oil, bay and metallic notes. — sex. A smell of hot wet skin communicated through a mixture of musk, vanilla and sandalwood. And — religion. Translated through my all time favorite incense with light sharp woody notes and a touch of amber. ” - Mark Buxton