Product
Make a Mark
Industry
Cosmetics
Year
2025
Client
Make a Mark
*Core Essence* is inspired by Antarctic ice core drilling, where air bubbles over a million years old were found trapped within deep-frozen ice layers. This discovery forms the basis of the concept: a time capsule preserving natural elements and stories from the distant past. The result is a collection of fragrance products that reflect the purity, layering and transience of time, designed as sensory artefacts each capturing a different expression of frozen history.
Three perfumes form the heart of the collection. *Celestine Drift* is fresh, airy and ozonic with frozen citrus, sharp aldehydes and white musk evoking crisp polar winds and freshly fallen snow. *Eonveil Frost* brings a warm, woody and mystical profile through fossilised resin, aged guaiac wood and silver moss, like ancient forests hidden beneath ice. *Abyssal Cryogem* is mineral and ethereal, blending saline minerals, white iris and ambroxan into a refined, almost transparent scent. Together, they form a triptych: fresh & icy, warm & mystical and mineral & ethereal. Completing the collection is *Obsidian Veil*, a passive home diffuser with a porous lava stone that slowly releases scent, mirroring the gradual diffusion of ancient air trapped deep in glacial ice.
The concept for Core Essence draws inspiration from Antarctic ice core drilling—where air bubbles over a million years old were discovered, preserved within deep layers of glacial ice. This revelation served as a powerful metaphor for preservation, memory, and the layering of time. The strategic intent was to translate this phenomenon into a luxury fragrance concept that feels both elemental and transcendent, evoking the purity, mystery, and complexity of Earth’s ancient past.
