A soft constellation of layered pastel marks dissolves across the paper in Spencer Finch's "Scent (lilacs)," a 2025 work that transforms sensory memory into quiet visual fact. Finch approaches the sheet not as a surface for depiction but as a field for measurement, coaxing the evasive quality of fragrance into color relationships that feel simultaneously precise and fugitive. The lilac palette moves through muted violets, grayed purples, and pale greens with the kind of restrained intensity that characterizes his broader investigation into how perception slips between the empirical and the felt. Finch is widely recognized for his methodologically rigorous yet poetic translations of light, color, and atmosphere, and this work extends that practice into the register of smell, one of the most memory-laden and difficult to fix of the senses. Working in pastel, a medium whose powdery, light-scattering surface suits his preoccupations perfectly, he achieves a bloom of tone that resists resolution into any single reading. The relatively intimate scale, 76.2 by 55.8 centimeters, encourages close attention and rewards it, the marks revealing themselves gradually as both system and sensation. Signed by the artist and presented framed, "Scent (lilacs)" is currently on offer through Galerie Nordenhake. For collectors drawn to work that occupies the fertile territory between conceptual rigor and lyrical beauty, this piece represents Finch at his most distilled, using the humblest of materials to ask genuinely ambitious questions about what it means to know something through the senses.