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Perfume is a story in odors, sometimes a poetry of memory

Jean-Claude Ellena

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Jean-Claude Ellena
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: April 7
Perfumer
Odor
Perfume
Memory
Poetry
Memories
Story
Stories
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The future does not really lie in discovering new fragrant raw materials.... In order to endure, haute perfumery is therefore condemned to inventing new olfactory promises...to finding a new form of expression.
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As a person, I take pleasure in receiving and sharing. As a perfumer, I like showing and convincing.... I'm quite simply following the trajectory of an artist, someone who seeks and, sometimes, finds.
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My visitors say they noticed perfumes from different companies in my fridge, and ask what I need these for. I explain that they are mainly there as historical benchmarks of quality, below which I must not and would not want to fall.
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Oddly, though, lists are reassuring. We become aware of this if we scrupulously follow a recipe, which is essentially a list of ingredients and actions but if we give this 'list' too much importance, we leave no room for the imagination.
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