An oil painting of dried roses, split figs, amber resin and orange peel with a thread of smoke, on dark stone.

Aromatics atelier · Composition no. 1

An atelier of scent and shadow

Five notes, painted in oil and set in motion. Move your cursor across the still life, the paint answers.

The idea

Scent is a shadow you can smell.

A perfume is composed the way a still life is painted: darkest first, then the deep reds, then a single point of light so the whole thing can breathe. Mirabilis is that idea, five notes rendered as oil paintings you can stir with a fingertip.

The composition

Five notes

An oil painting of smouldering oud wood and glowing embers in deep shadow.
01

Oud & Ember

Smoke, resin and a low red heat. The base the whole composition leans on.

An oil painting of ripe figs split to the seed beside a candle and dark leaves.
02

Fig & Smoke

Green figs split to the seed, a curl of pale smoke. Sweetness with a shadow behind it.

An oil painting of deep crimson and oxblood roses resting on dark velvet.
03

Rose & Oxblood

Not a fresh rose. A rose remembered, dried to oxblood, kept in the dark.

An oil painting of golden amber resin and dark myrrh with dripping honey.
04

Amber & Myrrh

Golden resin and dark myrrh, warmed until it runs like honey.

An oil painting of bergamot, bitter oranges and white neroli blossom.
05

Bergamot & Neroli

The one bright note. Bitter orange and neroli, cut with a cold green leaf.

How it is built

Darkest first

  1. I

    The base

    We start in the dark: oud, resin, a coal still warm. Everything is built on what you can barely see.

  2. II

    The heart

    Then the flowers, dried and deepened, oxblood roses and fig, given room to bruise and hold.

  3. III

    The light

    One bright note at the very top, bergamot and neroli, so the whole thing can finally breathe.

A wide oil painting of a dark apothecary table with antique perfume bottles, dried roses, amber and a lit candle.

Nothing here is fresh. Everything here is kept.

The atelier

The atelier

There is nothing to buy here.

Mirabilis keeps no shop. It is a showcase of what oil paint and a little code can do together, five AI paintings turned to liquid with a shader you can read. Here is exactly how.