The Fragrance Founder with a Filmmaker's Touch
(Coco Chanel: “A woman who doesn’t wear perfume has no future.”)
Elizabeth Gilbert • Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
Olfactory Design | CB I Hate Perfume | United States
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Designer Simon Porte Jacquemus has reimagined his bathroom, no less, for a retail concept that overloads the senses to playful effect and replicates the sense of humour that ripples through Jacquemus’s Instagram posts.
Vogue Business • From Jacquemus to Balenciaga: Luxury fashion brands go hyperphysical
Across food, across fashion and accessories, legal cannabis products, beverages, athleisure, skin care, supplements, and other permutations of consumer packaged goods and apparel, every manufacturing and last-mile strategy has become possible, from dropshipping to just-in-time, from small-batch to make-on-demand. Products begin their life as an unb
... See moreToby Shorin • Life After Lifestyle
Grasse was busy, crowded, and workmanlike. It fell into the perfume business through a combination of luck, sheep, buffalo, and Catherine de Médici. In the Middle Ages, Grasse was a tanning town, treating sheepskins from Provence and buffalo hides from Italy. Part of the process required the use of aromatic herbs (and if you’ve ever smelt a tannery
... See morePeter Mayle • Encore Provence: New Adventures in the South of France (Vintage Departures)
