LUIS OCTAVIO

Installation · 2026

Parfum Store

Mexico City Opening

A perfume doesn't exist in the bottle. It exists where the fragrance meets your skin — temperature, pH, your own chemistry rewriting it. Two people wear the same scent and live two different things.

Victor Martínez and I built the installation on that — he scored the space, I built the visuals. Pick a bottle, try it on your skin, and when one resonates, bring it to the reader. The room answers in light and color. What comes up isn't programmed for that fragrance — it's chance, at that exact second. Same logic as your skin.

One chain of code, fifty sets of numbers: same shader, no two alike. Around eighty people came through that night. You left with a card — your moment, your fragrance.

Year
2026
Format
Interactive installation
Technique
Live coding · A5 Prints
Venue
The Parfum Store × LAV
Polanco, Mexico City
The installation screen at The Parfum Store, running one of the fifty visuals
A guest holding their card next to the perfume that triggered it
The room answering in light and color
A bottle held up against the screen
A visual across the wide screen, perfumes lined up below
A card and the same visual running live on a phone
A bottle resting on one of the cards
A drink over a card
Guests at the opening
The store in Polanco, the screen still running at the end of the night

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Created by

Luis Octavio@iluso___

Visual Artist

Victor Martínez@vicmtzcas

Sound Artist

Production

LAV Oratorio

@LAV.oratorio

Venue

The Parfum Store

@theparfumstore.co

Arquímedes 26, Polanco — Mexico City