Facticerie Presents "The Scent of Dalí" -- A Surrealist Fragrance Tribute and Immersive Cultural Dreamscape

May 9-10, 2025 | Hackensack, NJ 

HACKENSACK, N.J., April 17, 2025 /PRNewswire/ --To mark the birthday of Salvador Dalí, the father of surrealism, Facticerie--home to the world's largest collection of perfume factices--invites guests into a fantastical, two-day celebration: 

"The Scent of Dalí: A Surrealist Celebration of Fragrance Fantasies" 
Dates: May 9 & 10, 2025 | Time: 2:00 PM - 8:00 PM 
Location: Facticerie Museum, 70 1st Street, Hackensack, NJ 

Founded by Sudhir Gupta, Guinness World Record holder and custodian of olfactory memory, Facticerie is a museum unlike any other. Housing over 3,500 giant perfume sculptures once created as luxurious display art, it now becomes the stage for a surrealist tribute unlike any the fragrance world has seen.

This landmark exhibition showcases the only known complete collection of Salvador Dalí's oversized perfume sculptures--phantasmagoric flacons, melted forms, and amphora-like relics reinterpreted into immersive scent installations. It is a multisensory homage where memory meets imagination, and fragrance becomes a form of artistic rebellion.

Accompanying the exhibit are floral dreamscapes by Venezuelan artist Mercedes Acosta, known for her ethereal creations at the MET Gala. Her installations--featuring dried blooms, botanical shadows, and suspended botanica--echo Dalí's surrealism through a feminine, Latin American lens.

"As a Latin woman, I believe memory is fragrance," says Acosta. "This is my love letter to Dalí--and to every dream that refuses to fade." 

"Dalí showed us that the surreal is more real than reality," adds Gupta. "At Facticerie, we honor him not with paint--but with perfume."

Visitors will also discover restored architectural elements from Manhattan's historic Lascoff Pharmacy--converted into scent altars and surrealist cabinets of memory.

Media, cultural editors, and television crews are invited. Bilingual interviews, high-resolution visuals, and press previews are available upon request.

RSVP & Press Contact: 
Sudhir Gupta | Email: [email protected] | WhatsApp: +1 718-593-7988 
www.facticerie.com 

Only at Facticerie--The Museum of Invisible Things.  

SOURCE FACTICERIE