VENUE-Cholon Social 堤岸雅集 淡香精

CHOLON SOCIAL - EAU DE PARFUM

堤岸雅集 淡香精

Red Tea, Cherry Rum, Incense, Blond Tobacco

An amber floral fragrance of cinematic seduction - where spiced warmth meets smoky wood and skin-hugging musk. Dark cherry rum infuses the air with hedonistic sweetness, tempered by the warmth of red tea and the curl of incense smoke. Blond tobacco lingers close to the skin, a whisper of seduction that turns the night into memory.

Top｜Nutmeg, Cherry Rum, Ginger, Figolide

Heart｜Red Tea Accord, Incense, Blond Tobacco Leaves

Base｜Benzoi, Gaiac Wood, Ambroxan, Precious Musk

Perfumer: Fabienne Bourhis 

PERFUMER'S NOTE

When I began composing Cholon Social, I wanted to capture the tension between modernity and tradition - the vivid energy of the streets and the intimacy of their hidden corners. I built it around a red tea accord I created myself, weaving leafy, spicy, woody, and smoky notes together.

To that heart, I added a burst of cherry rum, pink ginger, and grapefruit for vibrancy, balanced with the familiar comfort of benzoin, and precious musk. The result is a fragrance that moves like Cholon itself - alive with contrasts, magnetic yet quietly familiar.

THE SCENE

Cholon was once its own city; today it is Saigon’s historic Chinatown. Under the arcades, neon hums over lacquered shopfronts as incense rises from nearby assembly halls.
Street vendors line the wide boulevards beside old-world apothecaries, their drawers filled with dried tangerine peel, ginseng, chrysanthemum, and other traditional herbs.
As the sun drops, the air shifts to spice and smoke; red lanterns take the light as temples slip into the shadows and back alleys come alive. The city’s tempo changes as the pull between ritual and revel builds.

VENUE is an independent fragrance house that bridges Asian heritage with an American creative sensibility—where scent becomes an artifact of cultural movement, connecting tradition, modernity & memory.

Origins

Our story began in 2015 as an experimental project space in New York City, where musicians and visual artists collaborated on unrealized ideas.

Founded by two Vietnamese-Americans with a shared passion for artistry and cultural dialogue, we've now channeled that creative spirit into fragrance.

Philosophy

We exist to bring stories to life while distilling the transformative power of cultural exchange to deepen our connection to the places we inhabit and imagine.
With a documentarian eye and artistic curiosity, for us scent is a medium for storytelling, identity, and expression—capturing the essence of moments, cultures, and experiences in compositions that resonate beyond the immediate.

SCENTED ARTIFACTS

Drawn from a deep reverence for culture and informed by film, music, literature and history, each fragrance, called a Scene, is built with archival rigor and careful detail, and developed in dialogue with sound and visual media.

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