Vanessa Choi 蔡宛蓉
Director & Scent Artist

Vanessa Choi is a multidisciplinary director and scent artist whose work fuses dance, sound, scent, and the written word to reframe sensory perception. Her interest in her roots and heritage has prompted her to explore Butoh as a form of expression and movement notation, while researching indigenous studies, folklore, and ritualistic art forms. She approaches performance as a site of transmission — of memory, emotion, and human connection — often experiencing with the audience through layered, multisensory journeys.

When not directing, Vanessa extends her creative inquiry through Scentory, a platform that merges her artistic vision with fragrances for olfactory storytelling. Guided by her love of words, Scentory has connected authors and readers through “fragrant reading journeys,” for which bespoke scents are designed for selected books.

Since 2022, her work has been commissioned and presented at Tai Kwun, the Hong Kong Museum of Art, West Kowloon, PMQ, Thy Lab, and the Hong Kong Arts Centre.

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Directed Pieces

Sep 2025

THE DREAMING (2025)
Video performance & a re-invention of The Dreaming

Sep 2024

Awake Awhile
Performance experience at Tai Kwun

Jan 2024

Remember that we all are
Multi-sensorial walk-performance at the Hong Kong Museum of Art

Jul 2023

The Dreaming
Multidisciplinary performance at The Box, West Kowloon

Feb 2023

In Search of Palm Leaves (Part 2)
Meditative walk-performance in Wanchai, Hong Kong

Nov 2022

In Search of Palm Leaves (Part 1)
Literary night at the Hong Kong Arts Centre

Jul 2022

Violet: Memories in the Eyes of a Daughter
Music × Physical live performance at Soho House, Hong Kong

Curated Works

Mar 2025

When Schiele Meets Peking Opera Figure
Performance at 3812 Gallery

Feb 2025

Scoby Room
Exhibition at 54 Sai Street

Dec 2024

Tides of Time Continues: Interlinked
Improvised music & drawing performance at Until Coffee

Sep 2024

Butoh with Akihito Ichihara
Community Butoh workshop & performance at Jao Tsung-I Academy

Sep 2022

Dreams, unanswered
Yu-Ting Cheng’s (TW) first solo exhibition in Hong Kong at PMQ

Jul 2022

Distance
Her afternoon’s solo exhibition at PMQ, Hong Kong

May 2022

Spacing Out
Tse Sai Pei’s new works exhibition at PMQ, Hong Kong

Feb 2022

Love Stories Stuck in My Head
Johnnp’s (TW) first solo exhibition in Hong Kong at PMQ

Nov 2021

The World’s Loneliest Bookstore:
Shantih Shantih Shantih Exhibition (HK edition)
Exhibition of Daryl Qilin Yam’s novella (SG)

May 2020

「回家」影像展
Inspired by Hong Kong’s writer Hon Lai-chu’s work of the same title 《回家》 featuring the works of local emerging photographers

Jul 2019

Dream Awhile
Live music performance by Olivier Cong inspired by Sharky Chen’s “Skeleton in the Closet” (《失物風景》)

Scented Art & Curations
For product showcase, please visit Scentory’s website

Apr 2024

Room of M
A scented installation created for the Festival of Decay group exhibition

Jul 2023 - Present

Ode to Taste
Scented journey created for the Hong Kong Art Museum (HKMoA): “Art Personalised: Masterpieces from the HKMoA”

Jan 2026

Archive You music performance by SekikomiGohan (Tokyo)
Scent design for the liver performance at Live Stage Guilty, Tokyo

Dec 2025

A Symphony of Scents
An orchestral celebration — candle design for HK Phil

Nov 2025

The Queer Room by taboocha
Space fragrance design

Aug 2025

Wonderland by Cheung & the Ho:e
Exhibition fragrance design at otherthings by THE SHOPHOUSE

May 2025

Redressing the Future: Circular Solutions for Fashion Waste by Redress
Exhibition scent design

Apr 2025

My Blueberry Nights film scent design
Scented card curation for Wong Kar-wai’s vinyl release

Jan 2025

The Perks of Being Wild film scent design
Scent design for Benson Koo’s feature film

Dec 2021

V54 Reading Room
On-site reading experience and scent creation for V54 Young Artist in Residence

Oct 2021

I’m afraid of music performance by Olivier Cong
On-site scent design for the music performance at The Box, West Kowloon