Arielle Dombasle, the French actress and singer described as "perhaps the Frenchest person alive"...

...is not content just to dab on a bit of store-bought stuff, a 20th-century practice she derides as lacking in imagination. Rather, she concocts her own mixture from Cuir de Russie by Chanel, Aromatic Elixir by Clinique and a cheap off-brand white musk she stockpiles from a shop on the Lower East Side.

Read the rest in the New York Times (and thanks to Ruth for the link!), and also check out Chandler Burr's latest fragrance reviews in Scent Strip.