Paris, France
Synesthetic Sojourn:
A Journey Through the Senses
A Sensory Art Journey for Creatives, Seekers & Dreamers
Let Paris Reawaken Your Senses
Let Paris unravel before you—not just as a city, but as a living palette of textures, tastes, sounds, scents, and light. Each day is crafted to awaken a different sense, guiding you into the heart of pleasure, presence, and creative depth.
Paris isn’t just meant to be seen—it wants to be felt. It hums beneath your feet, dances in your dreams, lingers in the air, and imprints itself on your soul.
A Creative Immersion for Artists, Seekers & Storytellers
This is an immersive creative experience for artists, makers, writers, and passionate observers—those who are ready to explore the sensual rhythms of Paris in a deeper way. Led by a dedicated trip leader and joined by Parisian artists, perfumers, chefs, and craftspeople, each day opens into a new sensory focus and a new way of perceiving.
A Creative frequency
From boutique meringue ateliers to hidden fragrance labs, secret galleries to sound experiences that awaken the present moment—this is a creative reset. It’s a tuning fork for your inner artist. A curated immersion into the textures, tones, and tempos of a city designed for beauty.
Time to Create. Space to Breathe.
You will explore together and reflect in your own rhythm—journaling, making, simply being. You’ll be supported in working independently on your own creative projects, or experience the moment, surrounded by a small group of vibrant, inspired individuals.
Each day is paced with care:
Arrival and grounding. Exploration and inspiration. Connection and reflection.
You will return with more than memories—you will carry a new creative frequency.
July 14–21, 2025
$4,750
Book Independently with your own group* Contact us to schedule your private departure
Live in Paris while exploring the arts through curated workshops and experiences.
Dates:
July 14–21, 2025
$4,750
A creative journey in the arts for artists, designers, seekers, and inspired enthusiasts.
Where
Paris, France.
Theme
Synesthesia & The Senses
Cost
$4,850.
Duration
Eight Days
Spend eight unforgettable days in the City of Light, awakening your five senses through hands-on art, food, scent, sound, and space. Learn from Paris-based artists and culinary artisans, co-work on your own projects, and connect with a circle of inspired individuals.
This is not a trip—it’s a curated creative reset.
Highlights
- Stay in boutique accommodations in the heart of Paris
- Savor seasonal Parisian cuisine during intimate artist-hosted dinners
- Create your own custom fragrance in a private perfumery workshop
- Learn the art of meringue-making with a French pastry chef in a hidden atelier
- Explore Paris through sensory-designed itineraries—one sense at a time
- Join private visits to contemporary studios, historic galleries, and museum spaces
- Engage in guided sound walks, journaling rituals, and optional creative sessions
- Connect with local artists, curators, and makers through inspiring conversation
- Work on your own creative practice alongside a community of visionaries
- Leave with more than memories—carry a renewed creative rhythm
Itinerary
Daily Flow (Not Rushed. Just Right.)
Morning: Connection, workshops, cultural exploration
Afternoon: Leisure, optional journaling, making or co-creation
Evening: Curated dinners, performances, or quiet inspiration
Paced with intention. Space to be, create, and feel.
You will return with more than memories—you will carry a new creative frequency.
Day 1: The Sense of Touch – Arrival & First Impressions
• Arrivals at leisure to our artistic residence in the heart of Paris
• Slow welcome, time to ground and explore the neighborhood
• Evening: Artist-hosted welcome dinner featuring seasonal cuisine and curated conversation
Included Meals: Dinner
Day 2: The Sense of Sight – Color & Composition
• Museum of Decorative Arts and a walk through the Tuileries
• Visit to Sennelier, the legendary art supply shop
• Guided walk through artist neighborhoods and gallery visits
• Optional: Café sketching or visual journaling stop
Included Meals: Breakfast, Lunch
Day 3: The Sense of Scent – Memory & Alchemy
• Custom perfume workshop
• Visit to a historical perfumery and scented garden
• Optional: Aromatherapy meditation or olfactory story session
Included Meals: Breakfast
Day 4: The Sense of Sound – Rhythm & Reverie
• Behind-the-scenes exploration of the Paris Opera House
• Guided “sound walk” through Montmartre with a local artist
• Optional: Candlelit performance or hidden jazz night
Included Meals: Breakfast, Dinner
Day 5: The Sense of Taste – Pleasure & Craft
• Meringue-making workshop in a private atelier
• Culinary stroll through Paris: bakeries, spice shops, tea salons
• Optional: Armagnac or champagne tasting with a sommelier
Included Meals: Breakfast, Lunch
Day 6: The Sense of Space – Art & Serendipity
• Artist-led tour of Palais de Tokyo and the YSL museum
• Optional workshop block: flower arranging, paper making, or artistic meringue + photography still life
• Evening at leisure to wander or create
Included Meals: Breakfast
Day 7: The Sense of Synthesis – The Art of the Table
• Optional morning visit: Saint-Ouen Flea Market or Rodin Museum
• Afternoon: Reflect, arrange, and prepare final creations
• Evening: Farewell dinner + informal salon-style exposition of your Paris journey. Guests are invited to share their work, reflections, or creations—whether it's a sketchbook, scent, poem, or photo series—in an informal closing salon. A celebration of the process, not perfection.
Included Meals: Breakfast, Dinner
Day 8: The Sense of Wonder – Return & Reflection
• Light breakfast + creative journaling session
• Departures at leisure
*Subject to change based on the best and brightest opportunities.
Your Journey Includes
– The Art Immersions Team: Led by a creative professional and supported by a team with deep Paris connections
– Accommodations: 7 nights in a centrally located, artistic Parisian accomidation
– Food & Drink: Daily breakfast, 2 curated lunches, and 3 intimate dinners including welcome and farewell
– Activities: Museum visits, private workshops, artist studio tours, and guided sensory experiences
– Peace of Mind: International health insurance provided for all participants
- Daily conversations, dinners, and creative check-ins build a creative community—intimate, vibrant, and real.
Note: Flights not included in program price.
Artistic Focus
This journey is designed for artists, designers, writers, creatives—and anyone seeking a reawakening of the senses. Whether you come with a defined practice or simply a deep curiosity, you will find space to explore, reflect, and reconnect with your creative rhythm.
You will have the chance to:
– Participate in daily invitations to reflect: through journaling, sketching, styling, or simply observing
– Explore the hidden sensory layers of Paris through art, scent, architecture, and ritual
– Visit curated galleries, artist homes, and ateliers that awaken all five senses
– Connect with Parisian artists, perfumers, chefs, artisans and curators
– End the week with a warm, intimate evening of creative sharing and celebration
There are no expectations of output—only invitations to presence.
Whether you’re a painter, storyteller, filmmaker, or simply creatively curious, this experience reconnects you to your inner source of expression and imagination.
Come with a defined creative practice or are simply reconnecting with inspiration, this journey meets you where you are. Bring a sketchbook, a camera, a notebook—or just bring your senses. This is about reawakening.
Trip Details
“The chief danger about Paris is that it is such a strong stimulant.” -T.S. Elliott
“There are only two places in the world where we can live happy: at home and in Paris.”
― Ernest Hemingway
Suggested Reading:
FICTION
A Moveable Feast,
by Ernest Hemingway
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Classic vignettes of 1920s literary Paris. Simple, sharp, atmospheric.
In the Realm of the Senses, by Stéphane Audeguy
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A novel-meets-philosophy musing on desire, touch, and observation.
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer, By Patrick Süskind
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A fictional, decadent, and haunting exploration of scent and obsession.
NON FICTION
The Flâneur: A Stroll Through the Paradoxes of Paris,
by Edmund White
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A wandering, sensory-laden meditation on walking and perceiving the city.
The Poetics of Space, by Gaston Bachelard
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French philosophy meets the imagination of interiors, corners, nests.
“A walk about Paris will provide lessons in history, beauty, and in the point of life.” -Thomas Jefferson
“Paris is not a city; it’s a world.”
- King Francis I