The journey starts with the “Perfumist’s Piano,” a prelude to the sensory landscape the visitor is about to explore. This piano contains a perfumist’s olfactory palate: a secretier whose cupboards are filled with small jars of distilled essence which, like the keys of a piano, require an expert’s hands to compose the perfect perfume. And let’s not forget that perfumists have always used the word “notes” to describe smells. Next up is the “Perfumist’s Palate,” a table of colors set in the style of Pantone that chromatically classifies the different essences and aromas: “Sea,” “Spice,” “Ecological,” ”Citrus,” “Metallic,” “Toasted,” “Fruit,” “Powder,” etc.

Once you have studied the lessons, you may now submit your senses to experiences divided into five sections, each corresponding to a color. Each perfumed color brings together an amazing selection of paintings, sculptures, video installations and photographs by a total of 88 artists including the likes of Christo, Salvador Dalí, Eugenio Merino, Antoni Tàpies, Daniel Canogar and Eduardo Chillida, each accompanied by a small vial of fragrance. These aromatic elements multiply, describe and interpret the endless expressive capacities of color.

This is a unique opportunity to contemplate the idea of aroma through colored landscapes and where the visitor is able to explore the limits of the five senses, transforming them into “one art.”

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