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“Art is a lie that tells the truth”
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“When creating a smell, I go for subtle, clean, crisp, light fresh alluring fragrances that must evoke timeless elegance and a quiet sophistication.”
― Perfume: The Alchemy of Scent
― Perfume: The Alchemy of Scent
“The very essence of Hermès is earthiness, sensuality and complexity.”
― The Diary of a Nose: A Year in the Life of a Parfumeur
― The Diary of a Nose: A Year in the Life of a Parfumeur
“The days are fruits and our role is to eat them … to make them our spiritual flesh and our soul, to live. Living has no other meaning than this.”7”
― Perfume: The Alchemy of Scent
― Perfume: The Alchemy of Scent
“Perfumery companies were becoming international and shifting from perfumery that had something to offer, to one that responded to demand; this globalized tastes. The rare few innovations likely to give the French market leaders something to think about came from the United States. They included the introduction of the smell of cleanliness, as well as the smell of prudishness, thanks to the widespread use of vaporizers, which were in some senses a natural consequence of prudery (a gesture made far away from the body, gadgetry substituted for the erotic).”
― The Diary of a Nose: A Year in the Life of a Parfumeur
― The Diary of a Nose: A Year in the Life of a Parfumeur
“I like pleasures when they are shared, that is my definition of luxury.
Appetizing but not edible. Edible smells are lazy, something appetizing is exciting. "Appetizing" is a word sufficiently evocative to be turned into a smell.
Tocqueville anticipated the fact that, in a democracy, society would tend towards unified tastes. trend may be the price we have to pay for democracy.
For Kant, beauty could exist only outside usefulness.
A people that listens to jazz is a people that favors human exchange.
Green is the only color that makes sense as a smell.
Learning a language or any other thing, means opening yourself up to the world once more; it is also a return to humility.
I envy the emotion an enthusiast experiences when he smells a perfume for the first time, using words of love that I wish I could come up with again.
In Chinese or Japanese culture, perfection exists, it is also a goal to aim for, but the aspiration isn't unattainable and isn't tainted by a sense of guilt.
I believe that the best way to develop creativity is to work alone and without evaluation, which does not mean without any dialogue. The majority of ideas are the fruit of assiduous, day-to-day work, sometimes the result of meeting people, country walks, idle strolls, things I have read, moments when my mind is free to roam. My moleskine notebook, in which I jot down ideas, words and the beginning of formulae, is always close at hand.
I experience solitude as a freedom I have chosen.”
― The Diary of a Nose: A Year in the Life of a Parfumeur
Appetizing but not edible. Edible smells are lazy, something appetizing is exciting. "Appetizing" is a word sufficiently evocative to be turned into a smell.
Tocqueville anticipated the fact that, in a democracy, society would tend towards unified tastes. trend may be the price we have to pay for democracy.
For Kant, beauty could exist only outside usefulness.
A people that listens to jazz is a people that favors human exchange.
Green is the only color that makes sense as a smell.
Learning a language or any other thing, means opening yourself up to the world once more; it is also a return to humility.
I envy the emotion an enthusiast experiences when he smells a perfume for the first time, using words of love that I wish I could come up with again.
In Chinese or Japanese culture, perfection exists, it is also a goal to aim for, but the aspiration isn't unattainable and isn't tainted by a sense of guilt.
I believe that the best way to develop creativity is to work alone and without evaluation, which does not mean without any dialogue. The majority of ideas are the fruit of assiduous, day-to-day work, sometimes the result of meeting people, country walks, idle strolls, things I have read, moments when my mind is free to roam. My moleskine notebook, in which I jot down ideas, words and the beginning of formulae, is always close at hand.
I experience solitude as a freedom I have chosen.”
― The Diary of a Nose: A Year in the Life of a Parfumeur
“Objects are repositories of what we can learn about people.
Pleasure is selfish. Luxury is something you share.
The aim of perfumery, as of all the arts, is to create products that arouse sensual pleasure.
The pleasure of the senses is also an intellectual choice.
Memory works in such a way that the perfumes which are not experienced with excitement and passion, which are not linked with a personal story, are devoid of meaning and leave no trace in the memory.
- The Baroques are defined by exaggeration and the space they occupy; the creation of tension through the accentuation of detail.
- The Classics are perfumes that have become emblems, archetypes of perfumery.
- The Abstracts are perfumes that do not imitate nature in any way.
- The Figuratives seek to provide a faithful representation of a specific odor.
- The Narratives tell a story and describe a place or a journey.
- The Minimalists express odor for its own sake, stripped of all sentiment.”
― Perfume: The Alchemy of Scent
Pleasure is selfish. Luxury is something you share.
The aim of perfumery, as of all the arts, is to create products that arouse sensual pleasure.
The pleasure of the senses is also an intellectual choice.
Memory works in such a way that the perfumes which are not experienced with excitement and passion, which are not linked with a personal story, are devoid of meaning and leave no trace in the memory.
- The Baroques are defined by exaggeration and the space they occupy; the creation of tension through the accentuation of detail.
- The Classics are perfumes that have become emblems, archetypes of perfumery.
- The Abstracts are perfumes that do not imitate nature in any way.
- The Figuratives seek to provide a faithful representation of a specific odor.
- The Narratives tell a story and describe a place or a journey.
- The Minimalists express odor for its own sake, stripped of all sentiment.”
― Perfume: The Alchemy of Scent
“A simple combination of vanillin, a synthetic product, and labdanum absolute, a natural product, became an olfactory standard underlying a fantastic number of perfumes.”
― Perfume: The Alchemy of Scent
― Perfume: The Alchemy of Scent
“I create for myself, in the hope of pleasing others.”
― Perfume: The Alchemy of Scent
― Perfume: The Alchemy of Scent
“Pleasures, small pleasures: I like the pleasures we pilfer from everyday life, they brighten the day. They are mundane, they feel repetitive, they reassure. If we overlook them we deprive ourselves of the joys that make life bearable.”
― The Diary of a Nose: A Year in the Life of a Parfumeur
― The Diary of a Nose: A Year in the Life of a Parfumeur
“For a creation to last, for creative freedom, the pace must be chosen, not imposed.”
― Perfume: The Alchemy of Scent
― Perfume: The Alchemy of Scent
