Acidica Perfumes
Natural perfumery as a fine-art practice, from Saint Petersburg.
Acidica Perfumes is a small Russian project founded by the Saint Petersburg artist Elena Pilgun, who works across fragrance, watercolour, and writing. The first releases appeared in 2011 and the line has grown to several dozen compositions, all built from natural alcohol bases, essential oils, absolutes, and self-prepared tinctures from teas, resins, and forest material. Elena Markova handles much of the perfumery work alongside Pilgun. The catalogue is organised into themed sets — a Tea Collection, an Elements Collection, a Russian Forest Collection — that read as olfactory siblings to Pilgun's painted series. The voice is quiet, herbal, and unmistakably northern: birch, fir, cold tea, damp moss. Distribution is largely direct and via independent natural-perfume retailers, and the project belongs to readers who like fragrance treated as a fine-art practice rather than a fashion category.
DNA over time
Each column is an era. Each colored band shows that family’s share of accord weight across every perfume the house released in that window. Bigger band = the house leaned harder on that family.
