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We create perfumes for art lovers.
Vitsley Olfactory Studio works across fine art, personal and spatial scent design, brand formulation, and live experience. The practice moves between exhibition and activation, between the singular and the scalable, between the intimate commission and the stadium, with equal care, precision, and boundless imagination. Scent is our primary creative material: equally capable of conjuring a world, anchoring a mood, or establishing an identity beyond the visual or sonic elements. For the curious connoisseurs, collectors, curators, artists, labels, creative directors, and brand architects among us, Vitsley Olfactive Studio speaks an invisible language fluently and builds from it deliberately.
Recent
House of the Dragon Season 3 Sydney Launch, 2026
Commission Rizer for HBO
Four bespoke scent environments designed for the Wynyard Tunnels activation. Each environment corresponded to a distinct narrative world within the series, experienced sequentially by guests moving through the space.
CAFE (Contemporary Art Fragrance Exhibition) in Kyoto, 2026
Exhibition in collaboration with Naoko Kusunoki of Your Exclusive perfume studio
An experimental, experiential, immersive, and interactive exhibition in that approaches fragrance as contemporary art through the familiar structure of a café. Five perfume artists from around the world were invited contribute olfactory artworks to the ‘menu’, which offered guests a list of olfactory artworks to sample.
Olfactophone 2 at Airspace Project Gallery, Sydney, 2026
Exhibition in collaboration with Naoko Kusunoki of Your Exclusive perfume studio
A perfume-dialogue between two olfactory artists, continued on from the first showcase in Tokyo in 2025, exploring a scented dialogue to find a Lingua Franca Profumata - an aromatic common language. Using a process of interchange and exchange to create fragrances in iteration whilst exchanging information on the notes and ingredients they use, culminating in a singular common perfume created in-person.
Scented Absence curated by Joyce Mak at The Uncommon (now Art.berdeen) Hong Kong, 2025
Exhibition in collaboration with Naoko Kusunoki of Your Exclusive perfume studio
A completely immersive project presenting scents across an installational configuration of unorthodox media (scented paintings, curtains, paper, smoke, and clay) that smelled as close to Nothing as possible. It was imperative that we created fragrances that did not bring anything to mind – in fact, the more unplaceable and confounding, the better.
Press and The Observatory
Press features
The Art Show on ABC Radio National - Olfactory artist Nadia Vitlin infuses her artwork with scent
Paperback Perfumes podcast - Episode 32 - Acquisition & Possession
Galleries Gal - Nadia Vitlin and Naoko Kusunoki: Scented Absence at The Uncommon
Viet Nam News - Exhibition allows visitors to experience interplay between visual and olfactory art
The Observatory
Founder Nadia Vitlin muses on the perfume industry, art world, and other elements of her life, history, and the zeitgeist on her blog The Observatory:
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Studio and Atelier
Vitsley Olfactive Studio works with individuals, brands, institutions, organisations, hospitality groups, event producers, and creative teams to design scent at every scale; from a single room to a touring production.
For commercial commissions and brand engagements, enter the Studio →
For personal commissions, bespoke fragrance, and private experiences, enter the Atelier →
Library
Founder Nadia Vitlin offers private tutelage in perfumery under the Asia Perfume Foundation syllabus, alongside masterclasses and workshops for individuals and small groups. Teaching is treated with the same rigour as any other commission.
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