The future does not really lie in discovering new fragrant raw materials. . . . In order to … - Jean-Claude Ellena

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I love clothes. I can't control myself. I have a huge fetish for shoes and clothes and make-up. I'm the kind of person who doesn't like to wear things over and over again.

Jean-Claude Ellena

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

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Smell is a word, perfume is literature.

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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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Beautiful and minimalist, the traditional Japanese art of ikebana - arranging bouquets of cut flowers and leaves using very few elements - ideally corresponded to a form of expression I could transpose in a perfume. The smell of a rose early in the morning, damp, sprinkled with dew, delicate and light.

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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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