The Humanity Fragrance
Custom-designed glass sculpted bottles of the Humanity fragrance are now availiable The Humanity fragrance is based around the Indian white lotus flower, a symbol of purity from ancient cultures. Rich in vanilla inflections with notes of maté tea and sustainable sandalwood from Australia, the scent is fresh, sheer, floral and woody, and comes blended in a base of three organic oils.
The anatomical heart inspired bottles with white glass corks were designed by Lance McGregor and Alan Iwamura, and handmade by Alan. Each bottle is numbered by perfumer Anne McClain.
The Humanity perfume fountain will emit a fragrance inspired by an act of humanity, transforming a small Brooklyn park into a place for communing, contemplation, and compassion.
The Humanity fragrance is based around the Indian white lotus flower, a symbol of purity from ancient cultures. Rich with vanilla inflections with notes of maté tea and sustainable sandalwood from Australia, the scent is fresh, sheer, floral and woody. Lance McGregor, who has developed projects at Baron & Baron Inc and Tom Dixon Studio, a cofounder
of Mari-Studio and founder of McGregor & McGregor Inc, a full service design studio with well noted works with Marc Jacobs, David Yurman, Ralph Lauren and DKNY, worked with Alan Iwamura, an emerging Brooklyn-based glass artist, to create an anatomical heart-inspired vessel to bottle the Humanity fragrance. Each bottle is handmade and will be packaged with a postcard addressed back to the perfumer, giving people a chance to communicate any moments of compassion they experience while wearing the fragrance
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Image by Claire Benoist
In September of 2009, McClain traveled with six friends to San Miguel de Allende in Mexico to volunteer at the Casa de los Angeles, a day care center for orphans and children of single mothers. During her stay, she formed a deep connection with the children and from this experience, she started formulating a fragrance to transmit a sense of compassion to anyone who would come across it. McClain’s aim is to explore how memory can be transmitted through a scent to influence an individual’s present experience. In partnership with the Open Space Alliance for North Brooklyn and the New York City Parks Department, the fountain will be placed in McGolrick Park in the summer of 2010.
About ANNE MCCLAIN
Anne McClain is a graduate of the Grasse Institute of Perfumery in the south of France. She turned to the fine art of perfumery after an extended interest in photography as a way to flatten an experience into something tangible, yet ethereal. Anne also enjoys learning about aromatherapy to understand the psychological effects that the distilled oils of the flowers, resins, barks, peels, leaves and other plant materials have on the mind. Prior to attending perfumery school, she attended Brown University where she took classes in religion, creative arts, the environment, philosophy and neuroscience. She designed an independent major which later became an established major, “Contemplative Studies”. Its mission, “to develop a coordinated program in this rapidly emerging field that focuses on many of the ways that human beings have found, across cultures and across time to concentrate, broaden and deepen conscious awareness as the gateway to cultivating their full potential and to leading more meaningful and fulfilling lives”. For more information on Anne McClain and the Humanity project, please
go to www.trustart.org/anne-mcclain.
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For more information on the Humanity fragrance and fountain, please go to www.humanityfragrance.com.
available online at www.humanityfragrance.com and at Sigerson Morrison NY stores retailing for $125
The Humanity Fragrance $125
Your contribution goes directly towards the building of the Humanity perfume fountain, and your name will be listed as an official supporter of the project.
