Cero by agar olfactory is a unique fragrance inspired by the technological anxieties of the year 1999, capturing the essence of the Y2K era. This scent combines unusual notes that evoke the chaotic energy of malfunctioning machines and the dawn of a new millennium.

notes: hot fax machine, mouse pad, mac carcass, tattered wire

year 1999: the y2k bug looms in every computational system in the world. as midnight strikes, entropy cascades every hour as time zones catch up to the disastrous inability to process the new millennium. computers overheat in confusion, fax machines whirr with incorrect calendar dates, and hot wires melt their protective encasing in technological protest. 

30 ml / 1 oz

*matsu musk comes in biodegradable packaging

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agar olfactory is a project in speculative olfaction by augustine zegers. it imagines climate disaster and apocalyptic scenarios and the type of smell landscapes that would exist in such events. it collapses timespace any activating embodied intensities and inviting us to adjust our palettes as we peer into the future. 

as a project, it acknowledges the layered (and currently unfolding) apocalypses of our time, including, but not limited to: the sixth mass extinction event, the colonial apocalypse of 1492, and the covid-19 pandemic.

the project offers wearable olfactory works to invite sustained engagement with quantum queer time and to allow somatic alignment with future ecological states and eras.