As a person, I take pleasure in receiving and sharing. As a perfumer, I like showing and convincing. … - Jean-Claude Ellena

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I've just always been very aware and careful of everything, so that I can be ready for the perfect opportunities as they come. I don't take anything for granted or wait for anything to come to me.

Jean-Claude Ellena

As a person, I take pleasure in receiving and sharing. As a perfumer, I like showing and convincing. . . . I'm quite simply following the trajectory of an artist, someone who seeks and, sometimes, finds.

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Beautiful and minimalist, the traditional Japanese art of ikebana - arranging bouquets of cut flowers and leaves using very few elements - ideally corresponded to a form of expression I could transpose in a perfume. The smell of a rose early in the morning, damp, sprinkled with dew, delicate and light.

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My visitors say they noticed perfumes from different companies in my fridge, and ask what I need these for. I explain that they are mainly there as historical benchmarks of quality, below which I must not and would not want to fall.

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The future does not really lie in discovering new fragrant raw materials. . . . In order to endure, haute perfumery is therefore condemned to inventing new olfactory promises. . . to finding a new form of expression.

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