Sublime

With successive creations, the way in which I conceive perfumes has changed. I no longer listen to the market – creativity sometimes needs a deaf ear. I no longer pile in components, I juxtapose them; I no longer combine them, I associate them. My perfumes are accomplished perfumes but not finished ones. Each perfume is linked to the one before and

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 deve

we went some months later to see Lucien Ferrero again, this time at his office outside Grasse. I’d never been to Grasse; all I knew was that it had been the center of the perfume industry in France since the early nineteenth century.

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