About Scent Trail
A poetic travel series by Mélanie Rousselet
A Journey Through Scent, Memory, and Meaning
Scent Trail is more than a travel series.
It’s a ritual.
A remembering.
A cinematic archive of places that touched me, and changed me.
Created and filmed by Mélanie Rousselet, Scent Trail is a self-produced docu-poetic series that explores how fragrance holds emotion, how places carry memory, and how scent becomes a map back to the self.
Each episode begins not with a script, but with a feeling.
A question.
A longing to return, to somewhere I’ve been, or somewhere I’ve never been but always felt.
Where Scent Becomes Story
Every episode of Scent Trail is set in a different location. But this is not a glossy travel show, it’s a sensory meditation, where perfume, poetry, and visual storytelling blend into one quiet, emotional trail.
Season 1 includes:
- Dubai – The Gold Within: A story of illusion, fire, and surrender
- Seoul – The Elegance of Restraint: Stillness, discipline, and the art of minimalism
- Provence – The Fragrance of Home: Sun, memory, and the language of roots
- New York – The City I Never Left: Grief, grit, and sacred survival
- Bali – The Rise is Painful: Feminine power, water, and the beauty of becoming
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Montauk – Held by the Tides: Salt air, coastal silence, and the liminal space between departure and return.
Each film is a mirror. Each scent is a page from a diary.
Where Scent Trail Meets Artisane
I created Scent Trail as a natural extension of my candle-making practice with Artisane.
Because every candle I pour holds more than wax, it holds memory, place, emotion, presence.
Episodes of Scent Trail have directly inspired:
- Our custom scent blending ritual in candle-making workshops
- New limited edition fragrances sourced from travel and personal experience
- Deeper brand storytelling rooted in authenticity, slowness, and inner gold
This series gave me a new language to share my world.
It let me slow down. Create differently.
And it taught me how to hold space, for story, for healing, for scent.
🎥 Come Watch, Come Feel
You don’t have to pack a suitcase to follow the trail.
You just have to breathe.
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Scent Trail is for those who feel too much.
Who remember in textures.
Who move through the world guided by instinct, ritual, and scent.
You’re not lost.
You’re just tracing the path back home.