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eau de parfum PERFECT JAPANESE WOMAN
installation with 4 perfumes
This installation consists of 4 fragrances: 'Rice bran pickling-paste', 'Tatami', 'Miso-soup', and 'Soap'. They are exhibited in a style of perfume shop. Visitors are free to spray them on the strips, smell them, and even to wear them. Each smell symbolizes the social images of Japanese women over the generations from different perspectives. The text written for the each smell promotes the smell in a playful way. Each smell was manually extracted from the natural (raw) materials with distillation or alcohol extraction method.
[about the each smell and its extraction process]
No.1 Nukamiso
It's a pickling paste made with rice bran. It smells like 'zaurkraut'. I used alcohol to extract the smell.
No.2 Tatami
Japanese people make hard carpet with weaving this grass. The whole floor of Japanese house is made with this mat, so it's an important substance of Japanese house-smell. I used alcohol to extract the smell.
No.3 Miso-Soup
It's a national soup made with miso(fermented soy bean paste). I made the soup in the flask and extracted the smell with water distillation method.
No.4 Soap
I scraped a soap and extracted the smell with water distillation method.
eau de parfum PERFECT JAPANESE WOMAN (2008)
Maki Ueda
