Sublime

I had one traditional teacher, Doug Spitz, but the way I was taught was very nontraditional.

In the old times, a teacher let his students grovel for ten years, working very hard, one disappointment after another, until their egos were totally ground into the dirt, totally gone. Only then would they have experiences of Essence.

while the humble elder had risen to a high administrative position, the jaded elder, due to her uncompromising character, had been passed over for promotions and slowly forced from a role of importance, and even from the public eye, into a back office with a broken heater.

they had a formidable professor, Lucien Ferrero, who must have one of the most experienced and knowledgeable noses in France, and who has personally created more than two thousand perfumes. He had come from Grasse to take the class through its paces, to train young noses in good habits, and, with a little luck, to discover talent that could be