What is the fragrance you wish you’d created? Rotten meat, dust and dirt mixed in the ambient mugginess. During a vacation in Indonesia, I found a market in Bali where all the different smells made up an unbearable whole. The worst thing I’ve ever smelled brings me back to one of my travels. Orcanox, a form of white amber, because it smells like warm skin. The frangipani flower, for the powerful memories it recalls of travelling to Sri Lanka, a country I adored.The orange tree in all its forms, blossom, fruit, rind, leaf… neroli.The comforting scents of home and of my loved ones! But in terms of olfactory notes, I would say woods, for their mystery and subtlety.What are your five favourite smells in the world? I was surrounded by fragrance and its language it was very natural and instinctive for me to end up working in the world of scent. My father worked in the world of perfume, in Tokyo and in Grasse. When did you decide you wanted to be a perfumer/create your own perfume? It’s a blend of woodsy, papery grasses and tea… a very natural, slightly dry woody smell. It’s the aroma of tatami mats and wooden and papyrus screens. My earliest memory is the scent of Japan. I am French, my family is from Grasse, but I was born in Tokyo and I lived there for many years as a child.
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