气味上海2026春季展|展会主题「无界Boundless」解读 Vol.1

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I spend much of the year crossing borders. As I hand over my passport to the border control, I think of roses picked in Bulgaria. They’re grown in the Rose Valley, distilled into oil, and shipped across the world, until they arrive on my wrist as perfume. I travel with documents. The rose travels through trade, tradition, and imagination. Its journey is quieter, but far more boundless.

We often imagine boundlessness as excess. More choice, more speed, more reach. In practice, it has less to do with expansion than with connection. Boundlessness begins when we stop dividing the world too neatly into disciplines, cultures, or identities, and allow ideas to circulate freely between them.

Scent offers a compelling example of this movement. It does not belong to a single language or geography. A raw material carries climate, labor, and memory, yet the moment it is smelled, it becomes intimate and personal. Perfume moves easily between chemistry and poetry, between craft and imagination. It connects the rational and the intuitive without demanding that we choose between them.

What draws me to fragrance is its refusal to remain fixed. A formula may begin as a technical exercise, but it rarely ends there. It absorbs references from art, literature, food, landscape, and ritual. It is shaped by what we have learned, where we have been, and what we remember. In this sense, perfume becomes a meeting point.

Boundlessness also describes how ideas move between people. A conversation in one place continues elsewhere. A technique learned in one context reappears transformed in another. Knowledge does not travel in straight lines. It loops, resurfaces, and evolves.

When I hand over my passport and wait for the stamp, I know my movement is finite. The rose on my wrist reminds me that some journeys follow a different logic, one shaped by exchange, memory, and imagination, and far less confined by borders. That, too, is a manifestation of boundlessness.

一年中，我时常跨越不同国界。每当将护照递交给边检人员时，我总会想起保加利亚采摘的玫瑰——它们生长于玫瑰谷，经蒸馏化作精油，穿越重洋抵达我的腕间成为香水。我的旅程依托证件而行，玫瑰的旅途则经由贸易、传统与想象完成。它的行迹更静谧，却远比我的旅程辽阔无界。

我们常将"无界"等同于量的叠加：更多选择、更快速度、更广触达。而实践中，无界更关乎连接而非扩张。当我们不再将世界机械划分学科、文化或身份标签，允许思想自由流淌其间，真正的无界便由此诞生。

香气正是这种流动的绝佳例证。它不属于任何单一语言或地域。天然原料承载着气候、劳动与记忆，却在被嗅闻的瞬间化为私密而个人的体验。香水游走于化学与诗学、技艺与想象之间，联结理性与直觉，无需人们非此即彼地抉择。

香气的永恒流动特质令我着迷。配方或许始于技术实践，却很少止步于此——它汲取艺术、文学、饮食、风土与仪式的养分，被我们的学识、阅历与记忆所塑造。在此意义上，香水成为多元文明的交汇点。

无界亦诠释着思想的传播轨迹。某地的对话在他处延续，特定语境习得的技艺经转化重现于异域。知识的传递从不沿直线行进，而是循环往复、沉潜再兴。

递出护照等待盖章时，我知道自身行迹终有边界。腕间的玫瑰香却提醒着我：世间有些旅程遵循着另一种逻辑——由交流、记忆与想象构筑，远非疆界所能禁锢。这恰是无界的另一种显影。

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老木头与米饭的气味，总能将我带回奶奶身旁；海风混杂青草与树皮的气息，则让我瞥见童年的景象；Pears护肤露的淡淡香气里，藏着妈妈的温柔；Rush2的香气一浮现，大学时代的欢笑与朝气便再次苏醒；Chance的气味，则封存着一段难以言说的往事……

气味是时间的传送门。生命中的某个时刻一旦有气味参与，它便成了那一瞬的标签与引线，能轻易将你拽回往昔。而气味与记忆的联结又如此私密——同一种香气，对不同的人而言，往往通向截然不同的回忆与感受。这正是气味的魅力所在：需要亲身去感受，没有对错，不分高下，每个人都拥有属于自己的诠释。

曾听说，灵魂并不居于身体之内，也不游离于五行之外，而是如一个能量场般包裹着人的躯体，近似于香气那样无形却可感知。但愿每个人都能在这里，找到与自身灵魂相契的那一缕气息。

在嗅觉与视觉的交界处，是我创作的自由之地。在香气中，我可以任由思绪追随气息游走，各种色彩、线条、材质与工艺，都能以香气为向导，融合成独特的作品。六根五蕴，既是艺术灵感的源泉，也是感知之间相互转译的通道。沉浸于嗅觉与视觉的创作，如同玩一场永不厌倦的游戏。我也希望，借此能让更多人遇见属于自己的那一份香气。

The scent of old wood mixed with rice always carries me back to my grandmother’s side. Sea breeze entwined with grass and tree bark lets me glimpse scenes from childhood. The soft aroma of Pears lotion holds my mother’s gentleness within it. When the fragrance of Rush2 surfaces, the laughter and vitality of my university days awaken again. And the scent of Chance preserves a chapter of the past that is difficult to put into words.

Scent is a portal through time. Once a moment in life is accompanied by a smell, it becomes a label—a trigger—that can effortlessly pull you back to the past. Yet the bond between scent and memory is profoundly intimate: the same fragrance can lead different people to entirely different recollections and emotions. This is the true allure of scent—it must be experienced firsthand. There is no right or wrong, no hierarchy of taste; everyone holds their own interpretation.

I once heard it said that the soul neither resides within the body nor drifts beyond the elements, but exists like an energy field enveloping the human form—intangible yet perceptible, much like scent. I hope that everyone can find here a trace of fragrance that resonates with their own soul.

At the intersection of smell and sight lies my space of creative freedom. Within scent, I allow my thoughts to wander freely, guided by aroma as colors, lines, materials, and craftsmanship converge into singular works. The six senses and the five aggregates are both the source of artistic inspiration and the channels through which perceptions translate into one another. Immersing myself in creation between olfaction and vision is like playing a game I never tire of. And through this, I hope more people may encounter the one scent that truly belongs to them.

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如果你仔细闻过那些真正动人的香气，会发现它们很少乖乖待在预设的范畴内。比如一阵充满绿意的风，一朵似是而非的玫瑰，一把带有锋芒的草叶……这混沌，就是气味最本真的样子，它天生抗拒被规整，没有边界。

在调香师手里，边界被技术无限放大。从前，花朵的香气只能属于它盛开的季节；如今，化学技术可以从记忆中打捞某段即将褪色的味道，也能凭空构建出从未存在于自然的意境。

放眼当下中国香水市场，或许是这场奔跑最理想的空间。这里没有森严的传承需要恪守，消费者的鼻子和好奇心一样，正处在最开放的阶段。这种环境的“无界”，或许才是对创作者最大的馈赠——它不急于审判，而是先报以聆听。

If you have ever truly taken the time to smell fragrances that move you, you will notice that they rarely stay obediently within predefined categories. A breeze brimming with greenery, a rose that feels familiar yet indefinable, a blade of grass edged with sharpness… This sense of chaos is the most authentic state of scent. By nature, it resists order, rejects boundaries, and refuses to be contained.

In the hands of perfumers, however, boundaries are endlessly expanded through technique. In the past, the scent of a flower belonged only to the season in which it bloomed. Today, chemistry can retrieve a fading aroma from memory, or conjure an atmosphere that has never existed in nature at all.

Looking at the contemporary Chinese fragrance market, it may well be the most ideal space for this kind of momentum. There is no rigid lineage to be upheld, and consumers’ noses—like their curiosity—are in their most open phase. This sense of “boundlessness” in the environment may be the greatest gift to creators: it does not rush to judge, but chooses first to listen.

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200年前，人们用鲜花做香水，不认为大地生长的植物之外的事物能灌进瓶中。100年前，香水装在水晶瓶里出售，普罗大众从未想过自己也能像名媛贵妇们一样使用香水。20年前，中国制造的香水代表着劣质、廉价、无原创性，北上广的时尚辣妹们看都不会看它们一眼。

2026年，你可以买到纯化合物制作的香水，也可以选择玻璃瓶甚至金属瓶装的香水，你可以在北京郊区买到意大利调香师的作品，也能在巴黎街头看到中国招牌，百货柜台上有极简的单一香型香水，也能买到极繁的复古香水，格拉斯的调香师在欧罗巴大陆上寻找下一块良田、下一株植物，中国的调香师从古籍中寻找老香方，和那些更鲜明的中国味道。

绝对自由在心与心的沟通中打破所有枷锁，我们不设防、不设限、不追求意义也不追求成果，摩擦碰撞出的火花，灵魂燃烧时交汇成灵感，无界，就此开始。

Two hundred years ago, people made perfumes from flowers, never imagining that anything beyond what grew from the earth could be captured in a bottle. One hundred years ago, perfumes were sold in crystal flasks, and the general public never dreamed of using them like the ladies of high society. Twenty years ago, perfumes made in China were seen as inferior, cheap, and unoriginal—stylish trendsetters in Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou wouldn’t even glance at them. 

In 2026, you can buy perfumes crafted purely from compounds or choose ones housed in glass or even metal bottles. You can find works by Italian perfumers in the suburbs of Beijing and spot Chinese-branded boutiques on the streets of Paris. Department store counters offer minimalist single-note scents alongside intricately layered vintage-inspired fragrances. Perfumers in Grasse search across Europe for the next fertile field or promising plant, while Chinese perfumers delve into ancient texts to rediscover classic recipes and more distinctly Chinese aromas. 

Absolute freedom breaks all barriers through heart-to-heart connection—we remain open, limitless, seeking neither meaning nor outcome. Sparks fly from friction and collision; souls ignite and converge into inspiration. Boundless now, it all begins.