Jean-Claude Ellena quotes
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“Smell is a word, perfume is literature.”
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“Perfume is a story in odors, sometimes a poetry of memory”
-- Jean-Claude EllenaSource : Jean-Claude Ellena (2011). “Perfume: The Alchemy of Scent”, p.49, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
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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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“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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“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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“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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“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.”
-- Jean-Claude Ellena
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“Who that has reason, and his smell, Would not among roses and jasmin dwell?”
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“I even love the smell of books.”
Source : Adriana Trigiani (2003). “Big Stone Gap: A Novel”, p.4, Ballantine Books
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“In the lack of judgment great harm arises, but one vote cast can set right a house.”
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“Sweet praise is like perfume. It is fine if you don't swallow it.”
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“A perfume is an intimate object, it is the reflector of the heart.”
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