Joie noire is a scent that transitions with the body in all its tones, the celebratory, the reflective, the mourning, the hopeful.

Artists Tash Keddy and Jimmy Robert developed the scent as a core component of Jimmy Robert’s solo exhibition Joie noire at Artspace Aotearoa, where it diffused throughout the gallery.

This limited edition eau de parfum has notes of turmeric, mastic, blood cedarwood, skatole, and white grapefruit. Joie noire diaphanously invites its wearer to embrace the fullness of lived experience embodied in the exhibition: conservation, memory, desire, rejection, and resistance.