Chronotope

Chronotope Perfume is an autotheoretical artisan perfume concept by self-taught perfumer Carter Weeks Maddox. Grounded in Carter’s training in critical theory, literature, memetics, and with a keen interest in life writing, Chronotope takes its name from Michael Bakhtin’s conceptualization of “time-space” in stories as “the intrinsic connectedness of temporal and spatial relationships” within which “time [...] thickens, takes on flesh, becomes artistically visible; likewise, space becomes charged and responsive to the movements of time, plot, and history.” Through daring juxtapositions of disc