Dor Olfactory DELIRIUM (The Blood)

Blood on the scalpel.

Made by Dor Olfactory for Göksu Kunak's exhibition REMAINS at Ebensperger, Berlin, this dried blood accord functions as olfactory scenography. Developed as a smell-scape for the closing performance, and designed to keep existing once removed from the gallery.

Across the two-month exhibition, bodybuilders, grapplers, a pole dancer, and a suspended performer generated the show's paintings through sustained physical strain: pigment transferred through contact, motion traced through repetition, surfaces marked by gravity and exhaustion.

The scent follows that same logic. The material residue immaterial practice leaves behind. It's deliberately unpleasant: metallic, animalic, leathery, faintly rubbery, the impression of dried blood on medical instruments.

Only 30 bottles exist, each hand-splashed with blue paint referencing the paintings and drawings generated through performance, so no two are alike. 

Please Note: Each bottle is hand-splashed with paint, so the paint may smear in the package or lightly stain skin. That's the mark of the handmade process.

Dor Olfactory is a London-based perfume studio founded by perfumer Alina Miron, built around a Romanian word that has no direct English translation: dor — an intensely complex feeling of longing, of missing something or someone, a yearning that can be directed at the past, the present, or something not yet experienced. That emotional depth is the studio's foundation.

Miron shapes the brand together with a collective of designers, architects, and researchers who share a curiosity about the senses. The work moves across perfume, art installations, exhibitions, and multidisciplinary collaborations — all rooted in the same principle: that scent can be a material trace of imagination and lived experience. Every piece is made to move through all the senses at once — beautiful to touch, to see, and to smell.

Everything is produced in the London studio in small quantities, using high concentrations of natural materials and a commitment to slow perfumery. The guiding mantra is straightforward: get nosey.