Aerarium

Aerarium by Wilhelm Perfume is a fragrance for women and men. Aerarium was launched in 2020. The nose behind this fragrance is Andreas Wilhelm. Top notes are Tuscan Iris and Ambergris; middle notes are Mimosa, Fig Leaf and cannabis; base notes are White Musk and Suede. The perfume Aerarium brings the philosophical association of scent and money to life. Based on the history of the location, the former perfume factory Feinseifenfabrik F. Wolff & Sohn, the artwork Aerarium by Katharina Hohmann for the tax office, now combines past, present and future. Money and perfume, in their capacity as both material and immaterial substances, have certain similarities. Neither is really tangible; both are volatile substances and in part, symbolically reinterpreted. Like perfume, money works on the level of relationships, that is, the interactions between people. In the digital era especially, money appears as an omnipresent, material absence; perfume is ethereal, just as present as it is intangible. However, Aerarium refers not only to the airily-volatile but also to its opposite: bronze, which is aes in Latin. Because Aerarium was the name given to the ancient Roman treasury, the AERARIUM POPULI ROMANI. This first recorded tax office stored the so-called movable national property of Rome. The common property was located in the temple of Saturn, in the Roman Forum. It is believed to be Rome's second oldest temple. The individual bottles were produced exclusively and in the presence of the artist at Dorotheenhütte in the Black Forest. Each flacon is marked individually. An artistic multiple, inscribed with a unique engraving. The flacons contain Aerarium, a fragrance composed and produced in collaboration with Andreas Wilhelm, a Zurich perfumer, and can be purchased exclusively at Karlsruhe tax office. It is a very special perfume, which smells like freshly printed banknotes.