Fzotic

FZOTIC is a Tucson by way of San Francisco project by artist-perfumer Bruno Fazzolari dedicated to bringing independent vision and artistry to everyday life. The mission is to create refined and inventive scents, art, and home goods that empower individuals to awaken their senses and live their lives with flair and elegance.

Bruno is a painter and sculptor who, inspired by the experience of seeing scents as colors, began creating fragrances to show with his paintings in 2010. He had no plans to start a business, but his scents quickly developed a cult following. In 2013 he began selling bottles through his artist website, and as sales continued to grow, he quit his job as an art professor. In 2017 he launched FZOTIC. This is his first foray as an entrepreneur.

BrBruno’s work has been exhibited internationally at galleries and museums and is in numerous collections including the permanent collection of the Berkeley Art Museum. He attended UC Berkeley as an undergraduate and received his MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. He is a self-taught perfumer.

Bruno’s scent Lampblack, first shown at Gallery Paule Anglim, attracted the attention of hardcore fragrance fans in the “perfume underground.” Critical praise followed: Artforum named it a “top ten” for 2013. In 2014, the eminent perfume critic Luca Turin gave Lampblack a four-star review. The line has continued to receive extensive press including coverage in the style sections of the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and Women’s Wear Daily, among others.