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Olfactif Art

Marie-Anouch Sarkissian, a pianist and musicologist, has been exploring the interactions between music and fragrance for several years. A piano teacher in Geneva and Etoy, she has developed a unique approach by creating atypical perfumes inspired by music. Her collaboration with renowned perfumers such as Dominique Ropion and Guillaume Flavigny has allowed her to translate musical works into ephemeral fragrances during concerts. This artistic approach, which she calls 'Interface Parfum-Musique,' aims to establish sensory correspondences between the two arts. She has also contributed to exhibitions and publications highlighting the synergy between music and fragrance and has participated in educational and cultural projects in Switzerland.

"Chateau de Prangins"

In 2022 and 2023: Permanent Exhibition 'La Suisse. C'est quoi?' in duo by Marie-Anouch Sarkissian, fragrance creator for the exhibition, and Nicole Staremberg, exhibition curator.

Organization of the first Perfume Exhibition in Geneva

Selected in 2015 by two university committees to give lectures at the Sorbonne on the Art of Perfume.
Articles published in 2016 by Classiques-Garnier Sorbonne and L'Harmattan.

"France Télévision"

Between the Lines: The Fragrances of the Bible

Radio
Books

Some radio interviews (RFI -May of 2014, Radio Cité Genève -June of 2022, RTS) :
Listen to the radio interview on RTS

Article from Le Monde Magazine, December 30, 2017
"It is with the "nose" perfumer Dominique Ropion that she 'translates a sound language into an olfactory language' for the first time."

When Perfume Becomes Art in La Côte (Switzerland), April 12, 2016
''Teaching piano in Etoy is her profession, but learning to experience music through smell is her art! Marie-Anouch Sarkissian has been creating unique fragrances for several years. This native of Perpignan moved to Paris to attend the Versailles Conservatory of Music before pursuing a master's degree at La Sorbonne."
See on La côte (paid article)

The Little Music of Perfumes in L'Express, May 31, 2012
''This is the same subject that pianist and musicologist Marie-Anouch Sarkissian has focused on. [...] Inviting perfumers to create, during concerts, ephemeral fragrances that echo a musical work (Dominique Ropion with Darius Milhaud, Guillaume Flavigny with Frédéric Chopin...), she seeks to achieve, she specifies, 'not a literal transcription, but a subjective and sensitive interpretation of the chosen piece. This is worked on beforehand, but sometimes this connection between fragrance and music can appear strongly, as an obvious link. I experienced this one day when opening a bottle of Ming Shu Fleur rare, a perfume by Yves Rocher. The scent immediately evoked those clear, high-pitched sounds of the guitar and piano in Claude Debussy's work, Les Parfums de la nuit..."
See on L'Express (paid article)

Parfum & Musique

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