Hello and welcome to Civil to Strangers, a blog dedicated to exploring the senses through perfume.

I’m Chloe, a multidisciplinary artist based in Toronto and Montreal with an obsession towards the haptic and the sensorial. I came to the fragrance hobby in my 30’s partly as a method of coping with chronic illness by creating a protective bubble of fragrance around me, keeping the effluvia of strangers at bay.
The title of this blog comes from a 1936 book by the same name, a comedy of errors by the English novelist Barbara Pym. Pym has been a considerable influence on my practice in how much how much the place, class and history of her characters is contained in and shown by their material objects. I too, am interested in using the material to create narratives. I  am espescially interested in the matriel qualities of scent and light.
Like the ‘Excellent Women’ in Pym’s  books, I trawl the secondhand sales in search of objects that speak to me. Much of my collection has been aquired this way.

All opinions expressed are my own and all fragrances reviewed are from my personal collection. I have no professional ties to the fragrance, fashion or beauty industries and in the event of affiliate links, these will be clearly labeled as such.

 

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