For Guerlain’s new Tobacco Honey, first the bottle & ingredient porn spot, then below the jump, perfumers Delphine Jelk and Thierry Wasser talk about the fragrance, followed by a video showing artist Anne Féat Gaiss’s design for the optional cap plate.
It is me and it protected me
I picked this scent when was 13. Kids were bullying me because I was frumpy and short, and they made fun of my baby face and everything. This fragrance acted as my Superman disguise; it was like my shining armour. I disguised myself as a man because it was a manly man's scent and it never failed me.
So from 13 to 61, I wore that because it’s been a part of my success. It is me and it protected me. Speaking from experience, wearing a fragrance can be uplifting. It can be a way to be someone other than who you are. I think beauty – makeup and skincare – is a way to boost your self-esteem.
— Perfumer Thierry Wasser on Guerlain Habit Rouge. Read more in To Master Perfumer Thierry Wasser, Scent Is An Armour at L'Officiel Singapore.
I have to know Jicky as well as I know Oud Cherry
And this is what’s cool about being at Guerlain: that you have the know-how of manufacturing and I know my fragrances as well as I know Jean-Paul’s, as I know Jacques’… even Pierre-François Pascal Guerlain’s, because the oldest formula I manufacture today is from 1853, Eau de Cologne Imperiale de Guerlain. So I have to know it. I have to know Jicky as well as I know Oud Cherry because I manufacture it. And that’s absolutely unique in the world.
— Perfumer Thierry Wasser, quoted in Guerlain’s Thierry Wasser on scents, sustainability, and L’Art & La Matière at Vogue Singapore.
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