It’s definitely not darkness and the opposition to darkness is light and lightness, so I think it’s shining, solar ingredients. It could be Tiaré flowers or frangipani flowers. When we are in Grasse and we are doing the harvesting of the rose in May, it’s early in the morning, at seven o’clock. You see the fields, you see the small church, you see the people picking up the flowers, the wind is blowing, the sky is blue: That is happiness.
— Perfumer Olivier Cresp on what happiness smells like. Read more at Heartbreak Smells Like Patchouli at The Cut.
