Storefront with glass doors, indoor lighting, a large green potted plant outside, displaying a sensory olfactory fine art exhibition,and a sign reading 'the un COMMON' on the wall to the right of the entrance.

Build worlds

Tell stories

We create perfumes for art lovers.

Vitsley Olfactory Studio works across fine art, personal and spatial scent design, brand formulation, and live experience. The practice moves between exhibition and activation, between the singular and the scalable, between the intimate commission and the stadium, with equal care, precision, and boundless imagination. Scent is our primary creative material: equally capable of conjuring a world, anchoring a mood, or establishing an identity beyond the visual or sonic elements. For the curious connoisseurs, collectors, curators, artists, labels, creative directors, and brand architects among us, Vitsley Olfactive Studio speaks an invisible language fluently and builds from it deliberately.

Vitsley is based in Sydney, Australia and works internationally across Australia and Asia.

Recent

House of the Dragon Season 3 Sydney Launch, 2026

Commission Rizer for HBO


Four bespoke scent environments designed for the Wynyard Tunnels activation. Each environment corresponded to a distinct narrative world within the series, experienced sequentially by guests moving through the space.

The room entitled Darong's Lair for the House of the Dragon Season Three launch in Sydney, showing a dimly-lit underground tunnel with brick walls, hanging chains, and red lighting, creating a mysterious and eerie atmosphere.

CAFE (Contemporary Art Fragrance Exhibition) in Kyoto, 2026

Exhibition in collaboration with Naoko Kusunoki of Your Exclusive perfume studio


An experimental, experiential, immersive, and interactive exhibition in that approaches fragrance as contemporary art through the familiar structure of a café. Five perfume artists from around the world were invited contribute olfactory artworks to the ‘menu’, which offered guests a list of olfactory artworks to sample.

A table with three black wine glasses, perfume bottles, a teapot, and three bowls with floral patterns, set near a window with green foliage outside.

Olfactophone 2 at Airspace Project Gallery, Sydney, 2026

Exhibition in collaboration with Naoko Kusunoki of Your Exclusive perfume studio


A perfume-dialogue between two olfactory artists, continued on from the first showcase in Tokyo in 2025, exploring a scented dialogue to find a Lingua Franca Profumata - an aromatic common language. Using a process of interchange and exchange to create fragrances in iteration whilst exchanging information on the notes and ingredients they use, culminating in a singular common perfume created in-person.

Close-up of two plinths displaying transparent glass cloches and small glass containers inside a white cube gallery for the Olfacotphone art exhibition in Sydney by Nadia Vitlin and Naoko Kusnoki.

Biophilia Music Festival, Hawkesbury River region, 2026

Live Performance in collaboration with DJ Sølfa and Biophilia stage technicians

Biophilia is a non-advertised, boutique festival that takes place in a hidden location in the Australian wilderness. The performance included development and delivery of a live olfactory experience in which scent was released into the audience in synchrony with the performance. The work explored fragrance as a performative medium, extending the atmosphere of the dancefloor beyond sound and light.

Poster for Biophilia music festival, scheduled for January 23-26, 2026, featuring artists such as Andrés, Aunty Donna, Animalistic, Benji, CeeMaks, Hosca, Jae Bones, Just Pratley, Lili Joy, Leave It With Lloyd, Loulou, Melo, Middle James, Mimi J, Natalie Lawrence, NGM, Oncum Yilmaz, Rabbit Taxi, Pierre Qui Routine, Samma, Solas, Sólfa, Tsura, Voicing, Xavier, YTD.

Scented Absence curated by Joyce Mak at The Uncommon (now Art.berdeen) Hong Kong, 2025

Exhibition in collaboration with Naoko Kusunoki of Your Exclusive perfume studio


A completely immersive project presenting scents across an installational configuration of unorthodox media (scented paintings, curtains, paper, smoke, and clay) that smelled as close to Nothing as possible. It was imperative that we created fragrances that did not bring anything to mind – in fact, the more unplaceable and confounding, the better.

A woman leans into smell a scented paintings, which is entirely white but highly textured.

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Collaborators & Partnerships

Collaborators

Fine art Naoko Kusunoki at Your Exclusive

Installation art Melody Chan and Yin Christie at Meloyin

Partnerships

Commercial B.Y.O.B

Commercial SkinNeed

Educational Asia Perfume Foundation

Press and The Observatory

Press features

The Art Show on ABC Radio National - Olfactory artist Nadia Vitlin infuses her artwork with scent

Paperback Perfumes podcast - Episode 32 - Acquisition & Possession

Galleries Gal - Nadia Vitlin and Naoko Kusunoki: Scented Absence at The Uncommon

Viet Nam News - Exhibition allows visitors to experience interplay between visual and olfactory art

The Observatory

Founder Nadia Vitlin muses on the perfume industry, art world, and other elements of her life, history, and the zeitgeist on her blog The Observatory:

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Studio and Atelier

Vitsley Olfactive Studio works with individuals, brands, institutions, organisations, hospitality groups, event producers, and creative teams to design scent at every scale; from a single room to a touring production.

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For personal commissions, bespoke fragrance, and private experiences, enter the Atelier →

Library

Founder Nadia Vitlin offers private tutelage in perfumery under the Asia Perfume Foundation syllabus, alongside masterclasses and workshops for individuals and small groups. Teaching is treated with the same rigour as any other commission.

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