Chelsea Staircase

A tribute to the Chelsea Hotel’s storied spirit, this scent captures the creative pulse of its stairwells.

Bright lemon and Earl Grey tea open into soft sunflower and the textured feel of fabric and canvas. As it deepens, honeyed warmth and a trace of antique iron emerge, conjuring a vintage-modern atmosphere alive with art and memory—distinctive, luminous, and a touch unpredictable. Each wear feels like stepping through a moment suspended between history and imagination.

Top: Lemon, Earl Grey Tea
Middle: Sunflower, Stretched Canvas
Base: Antique Wrought Iron

"Upstairs individuality was celebrated…Downstairs the joys of community were expressed…Most delightful of all, and perhaps most significant were the American sunflowers worked into the designs of the wrought iron…the flowers at The Chelsea expressed [architect Philip] Hubert’s wish that American artists in his cooperative hold their petals up to the sky." - Sherill Tippins

Thin Wild Mercury is a fine fragrance line that draws from the many vibrant cultural eras of Los Angeles and New York, eliciting at once the factually historical and the purely fantastical. In a 1978 interview with Playboy, Bob Dylan described his 1966 seminal album Blonde on Blonde as having "...that thin, that wild mercury sound." While Dylan found the inspiration for this spirited description of his work through his band's lively, uninhibited performances of it at the time, ours is rooted in the illustrious history of the famous coastal cities; their renowned neighborhoods and hangouts and the nowadays fabled eras of their 20th century lifespan – told aromatically.

• Cathleen Cardinali