April 2024 • Toskovat’

Fumerie is proud to host Toskovat’ as our fourth Maker’s Residency artist and brand! Toskovat’ extrait de memoire is the perfumery project of David Lev Jipa Slivinschi. Having previously worked as a screenwriter, at 24 he decided to switch industries during the pandemic. Drawing from film as a medium, David aims to bring to perfumery the same synaesthesia of senses. In the same body of work you can encounter auditive, visual and quasi-tactile stimuli, but now also with the addition of olfaction.

All Toskovat’ creations are coined as memory extraits because first and foremost they do not aim to please or function as an accessory – rather they want to be evocative of a deep & universal human experience and transport wearers to forgotten memories.

As smell is the most intertwined sense to memory it was only natural that perfume-making would become David’s most liberating medium to tell the stories that couldn’t ‘’fit’’ the big screen.

Toskovat’ candid fragrance notes, plucked from real life experiences, together with the collaborative black & white drawings that function as top-mid-base notes descriptions translate the ever-present nostalgia. The musical playlists inside each perfume package round off the mood and bring rhythm to the time-traveling experience and the journal page, signed with an inky thumb-print, proves everything is personal yet can speak to anybody, from anywhere.

Toskovat’ is an immersive, multi-sensory introspective journey.

Featured Fragrances

AGE OF INNOCENCE • “Today I remembered cycles.

I saw children on their bicycles near cars rushing by. Exhaust blowing on cotton candy.
Funny circus, absurd circle. It reminds me of knowing sweetness when I was their age. Strawberry jam and raspberry yoghurt. It was all so good but I couldn’t know it.

Then this metallic screech interrupted it all. The abrupt brake on youth. Hot, torn rubber marked so all could see. Born out of petrol on a back seat.
I was all so fast and loud, and the car couldn’t reverse again.

Now I’m parked in a hospital. Hope they have something sweet in store for me.“

ANARCHIST A_ • “Today I remembered hypocrisy.

They sell us love, faith, forgiveness, blessings, distraction, dreams. They sell anything if we are ready to buy It up.
If it is hard to tell who ‘’they’’ are, it could be because of us… All we ever wanted was everything.
White-collared promises that children follow, a better tomorrow. Only if you work for it for every tomorrow.
And me, waiting in the cold, snow on my face, rye in my pocket, hoping for answers for a different age.
Society remains dying. And we have killed it. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers?”

CURTAIN CALL • “Today I remembered encores and anchors.

The elder smell, hoping you would come back and we would grow together.
I still buy your favorite pralines, but never eat them. I wish my hands would clap and cheer instead of being tied.

I do not even care if it was acting anymore…I want one final act. But you never acted, as you said…
I was just watching my life fold and unfold.

And now I watch again.”

GENERATION GODARD • “Today I remembered small pleasures, seeing a familiar name in a newspaper.

Eating sour candy.
The soda soaked cup at the end of a visit to the cinema, and my sore tongue picking at popcorn kernels stuck in my teeth.
What a big accomplishment. Just like the films they put on for me.

A favorite of mine said I am part of the “children of Karl Marx and Coca Cola”. I’m not sure what he meant, but I never want to forget again. The characters burned so fast only the cigarette butts remained.
We held hands. Children were conceived in that cinema, and grown-ups turned back.

Someone gave me a light.”

SILENT AT THE THEME PARK • “Today I remembered my mother and her sweater. I remember eating this small lemon tart on my first flight ever. They took me to a theme park when I was 5 and I smudged it.

There are lilacs knocking on the windows now, just like then. The rooms used to seem so big back then, and life so colorful. The linens smelled so calm. It was spring and the garden by our hotel room was in full blossom.
I remember playing with my toys, staying inside…. It was never-ending, unlike the rides.

 I remember the screams and their hugs. Twenty years fly by but I don’t seem to…”

THINGS WE NEVER SHARED • “Today I remembered the week before Christmas. Sunday 18.12.

Waiting at the train station in Paris, years ago, for a promise made 6 months prior in Vienna.
People around me coming from the fair, flowers gifted, drinks had, sweet moments shared… Sweet nothings.
We had so many plans too. We spoke about so much in such little time.
And still said too little.
You gave me all of you, I gave you all that was left of me.
A toddler is crying on a bench to my right, his hands touching a hot cocoa cup for the first time. I am cold, too.
My hands are cracked, and yours are absent.
I put some sun cream on to remember the better days.

Maybe next year.“

Explore the Toskovat’ website here

Explore David Lev Jipa Slivinschi parfumeur page here

Submissions for our 2025 Calendar will close on Dec. 8 2024. All applications and samples must be received by this date for this calendar, but submissions can be made any time for future consideration.

Here at Fumerie Parfumerie, we are first and foremost perfume lovers. The goal of this venture has always been twofold: to bring the finest niche and independent fragrances to the Portland area and to engage the fragrance community and create a space for people to come together. In an effort to serve the greater community of enthusiasts and up-and-coming makers, we are excited to announce that starting January 2024 we will be featuring a month-long spotlight on an independent perfumer who will be exhibited in our shop for the duration of said month.

We believe the growing community of self-taught and newer perfumers deserve access to spaces wherein their art can be shown and appreciated without fully committing to the rather rigorous systems of wholesale. We also believe our community of fragrance lovers want and deserve a chance to enjoy these very hard-to-find pieces of art. Often, local and micro-perfume brands are limited to working with stockists in their immediate area or are forced to compete with the algorithmic competition of social media. We are proud to offer our curative services to find these makers and to make available a public form for brands to apply to participate in this exciting new program.

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