Author
Paris
Sophia Dax-Kerr is a Franco-British writer, born and raised in Camden, London, who has spent her young adulthood in Paris. Working between two languages and cultures, she writes experimental prose, literary and olfactory essays, pursuing a voice that belongs neither wholly to English nor to French.
A graduate of Université Paris Cité, where she completed a Master's in Anglophone Literature, she is particularly interested in the limits of language and translation as an act of revelation rather than transfer. Her writing is deeply influenced by the immersive environments in which she has worked, particularly the intimate interiors of Maison Gainsbourg and the sensory worlds of French perfume houses, where space, scent and throwaway moments become inseparable from literary invention.
A self-professed scentophile and chronic reader of Nez, she also makes what she affectionately calls “funny music” with the Parisian trio Les Cashmeres, currently preparing their first EP for release in 2027.
Setting the niche perfume industry’s reified vocabulary of notes, pyramids, and status against the sensuous use-value of scent as it returns through the body’s own labor and memory, Sophia Dax-Kerr’s bilingual entries build a “third language” that makes the commodity’s smooth idiom stutter and, in doing so, reclaims sensation from the market that sells it.