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In the news: Jean Claude Ellena

Posted by Robin on 27 July 2006 9 Comments

Jean Claude Ellena, the house nose at Hermès, is in Sydney, Australia to help launch the Terre d'Hermes fragrance. And no, he doesn't wear it himself:

He does not splash on cologne, his armpits are a deodorant-free zone and he steers clear of perfumed soaps.

"It is to protect myself," he said. "When I smell odours around me I'm starting to say, well, this contains that and that, so I am starting to work, but I want to concentrate only on creating my own perfumes so I try to avoid smell."

Read the rest in The Australian (link no longer working, sorry!)

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Tagged With: jean claude ellena

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  1. Anonymous says:
    27 July 2006 at 12:44 pm

    call me cynical but I don't see that eschewing deoderant is the best way to create an odour free zone.

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  2. Anonymous says:
    27 July 2006 at 2:45 pm

    I'm not sure why unscented deodorant wouldn't do…but perhaps if your nose is sensitive enough, there is no such thing as truly unscented?

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  3. Anonymous says:
    27 July 2006 at 5:14 pm

    ooh, my smelling bad

    All of a sudden I'm getting visions of Kevin Kline in A Fish named Wanda

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  4. Anonymous says:
    27 July 2006 at 5:15 pm

    aargh – spelling, spelling. Not smelling

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  5. Anonymous says:
    27 July 2006 at 7:33 pm

    LOL…no worries, I do the same 🙂

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  6. Anonymous says:
    28 July 2006 at 10:11 am

    I use an unscented deoderant that actually has a faint musc scent. I couldn't figure out what the nice musc smell was on my clothing that I would catch a wiff of from time to time, and finally clued into the fact that it was the deoderant.

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  7. Anonymous says:
    28 July 2006 at 11:13 am

    Interesting. I've also noticed that many of my unscented products have a bit of a smell. I guess we need some sort of FDA-imposed labelling requirements…

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  8. Anonymous says:
    10 August 2006 at 1:01 pm

    I have long been amused by the fact that I can smell Dove Unscented soap from halfway down the aisle in Duane Reade (and I like the scent)!

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  9. Anonymous says:
    14 August 2006 at 11:27 am

    Really? I'll have to give it a sniff next time I'm at the store. Hard to imagine Dove without that “Dove scent”.

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