Alexander Kasses
Alexander Kasses is a musician, visual artist, and self-taught perfumer whose work sits where sound, image, and scent meet. In 2025, he founded Nēomirage between Vienna and Marseille, building an independent fragrance house around a team and a distinctly artistic point of view. Rather than entering perfumery through a conventional academic route, Kasses developed his craft through self-directed practice, creative exchange, and an enduring fascination with how fragrance can organize feeling and memory. His background in music and visual art gives him a composer’s sensitivity to rhythm and a painter’s attention to atmosphere. That combination makes Nēomirage feel less like a conventional perfume label than a studio in which scent becomes part of a larger creative conversation. Early work under the Resonance Studies name offers a glimpse of this focus: fragrance considered through resonance, sensation, and the emotional charge of musical space.
The hits
Notable creations
The signature
How Alexander composes
Kasses’s most distinctive signature lies in the union of structure and atmosphere, a style shaped by his work across music and visual art. While specific ingredient preferences are not consistently documented, his approach suggests compositions built around contrast, texture, and resonance rather than decorative layering alone. The name Nēomirage, and the Resonance Studies work, point toward scent treated as an evocative and slightly elusive medium, where materials may carry symbolic and emotional weight. Fragrance here is likely to favor impression over literal realism, creating space for the wearer’s own associations. Kasses’s compositions reward close attention: the opening registers, the changes in temperature, and the way a note lingers all seem central to the experience.
Philosophy
What drives Alexander
Kasses treats fragrance as an art form capable of holding contradiction: the precise and the intuitive, the familiar and the strange, the cerebral and the bodily. His work is informed by music and visual art, disciplines that reward interpretation rather than a single fixed meaning. This suggests a perfumer interested not only in how a composition smells, but in how it affects attention, mood, and memory. Nēomirage appears to be built around niche artisanal composition and the meeting of sonic and olfactory ideas. That approach invites the wearer to participate, noticing the shifts within a scent rather than searching for one dominant statement. Kasses’s self-taught path also lends the house an independent character: experimentation and personal curiosity lead where formal training alone might not.
The houses