my family had been living in Savannah, GA for nine generations up until my great grandmother and her three sisters, after being orphaned, decided to leave when they became of age. The first of my family to move back, I now live a three minute walk away from my great-great grandfather's workplace, a factory where he used to travel on horse and buggy selling ice door-to-door.
One relative, Henry Louis Bourquin (my great-great-great-great uncle), was one of the founding members of the Georgia Medical society in 1804. he sold many tinctures and tonics like lavender, orange flower, and honey water, ginger preserves, sage, and jordan almonds. Though I claim no medicinal value to my concoctions, I would be lying if I didn't say that a good fragrance wasn't healing in one way or another.
Inspired by my genealogy and a love for raw materials,
"Dr.Bourquin's scents and galleries" is a six part series of different fragrant products that combine both traditional "art", perfume, handmade paints, and my genealogy.
Invitation to "Blood Relative", the first gallery/fragrance of the series
Poster concept for corrosive ink
Render for reclaimed brick lime wash
Family photo, featuring my great uncles Manley and Stanley Pollock (twins)
Brand identity
Blood Relative, fragrance 1/6
"Memento Mori", final fragrance and gallery
Wordmark/logomark pulled from my great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great grandfather's signature
Fragrant art concept
Memento Mori pamphlet included with invitation, side one
Flyer concept
My great-great-great-great uncle Gugie Bourquin (1837-1902), his unsolved murder, and the man who hated him (second) most
"Sabre" fragrance rollerball mockup, modular design to be turned into a mop pen
"Fugitive" fragrance packaging insert
"Memento Mori", final fragrance and gallery invitation
Sticks included in invitation for recipient to make their own charcoal
Values
Memento Mori pamphlet included with invitation, side two
"Vegetable Garden", fragrance 3/6
Blood Relative, the first fragrance and gallery of the series
Initial blend experimentation
Packaging sketches, ½
Packaging sketches, 2/2
Purpose
"The Pollock Farm", fragrance 5/6
Ikigai: a passion that gives value and joy to life
