“Once you find an idea that you feel is meaningful—and this is the part I like—you have to create a fantasy, and in the case of Comète it was quite visual,” [Olivier Polge] says. The perfumer began thinking about stardust, equating the light traced by cosmic particles across the night sky to the olfactory trail left hanging in the air by a fragrance. That gave him the idea to create a perfume that was simultaneously powdery and luminous—two types of scent often considered mutually exclusive in the world of fragrance.

— Read more in Chanel Looks to the Cosmos With Its New Perfume, Comète at Harper's Bazaar.

I was born in the South of France but I grew up, and still live, in Paris. So many of my first memories relate to the smell of wet stone after the rain. As a child, my parents would take me to the Parc de Bagatelle, at the heart of the Bois de Boulogne (one of Paris’s four botanical gardens, created in 1775), or to the Jardin du Luxembourg on the weekends. The latter is particularly great for kids as there is a lake where you can float toy boats.

— Read more in Postcard from Paris - A guide to the city by Chanel perfumer Oliver Polge at Condé Nast Traveller.