Clytie Κλυτίη
Anyone who has known me since I started perfumery last year knows this was the very first fragrance I ever created on my own.
To be honest, I had no idea what to name it at first. As luck would have it, I was catching up with a senior friend I knew, talking about how stuck I was on naming the perfume, and they casually dropped this name. I was like, "Yeah, this fits." Total BS, haha!
The kicker is, the year before, I had also worked on my first short film (which got stuck in post-production hell for 3 years—we actually filmed it back in my senior year of college, haha). The main character's name was Clytie, and the origin of that name came straight from this mythological figure. You could say this name taught me lessons in both filmmaking and perfumery.
Number of mods: 10 (Back when I was still scooping powdered indole straight into the beaker like, "What have I doneeee?!" But yeah, this was Ohm 1 year ago).
P.S. I wanna direct a short film so bad!
Mise en Scène
I once talked with Phi Near from Tizelz about synaesthesia (sensory cross-perception, or seeing colors/images from scent). Phi Near showed me artwork by Khun Mo (MosaiZ), an artist with this condition, interpreting the scent CHERRY ma Cherie from Tizelz. I got curious about what color Khun Mo would perceive in my Clytie because it's such a controversial scent—some people smell yellow (I smell yellow because of the Ylang-ylang), while others get purple (probably from heliotrope and lavender, though I don't perceive lavender as purple, haha). So, I jumped at the chance to send a bottle to Khun Mo to try.
Clytie is the very first perfume I formulated (and naturally, the one closest to my heart). But what makes it unique compared to my other work is that this fragrance was finished before it even had a name. Therefore, what you smell in this bottle is pure, naked craftsmanship and my raw taste, completely unburdened by a conceptual brief. From my perspective as its creator, even though Clytie is complex, structurally robust, and smoothly blended, it still carries a sense of ambivalence (no rigid directional note because it was my first original creation, blended purely according to my mood at the time, haha).
Seeing these intricate details successfully communicated through scent, experienced by an artist, and translated into the colors and textures of a painting is truly magical.
Thank you to the artist Khun Mo (MosaiZ). You can follow Khun Mo on X @MozaiZ_N or check out #สีสันของโม (#ColorsofMo) or #whatmoseetoday. And thank you Phi Near for introducing us—it was an extraordinary experience! Even as the perfumer, there is always something new to discover and learn within your own creation.