Hermès’s former in-house perfumer talks about his love of French writer Jean Giono, who he says “gave me new ways to think about life”
Now an administrator for the Association of Friends of Jean Giono, Jean-Claude Ellena has also managed to befriend the author’s daughter – such is his passion for the Provençal author’s work. But as well as being an advocate for literature, Ellena is a chemist, an economist, a composer and a poet – and all in the name of perfume.
In command of the full symphony of perfumery, he goes so far as to produce entirely new ingredients for his creations. The latest example is an infusion of iris he commissioned for his new fragrance, Heaven Can Wait, part of Frédéric Malle’s Editions de Parfums. This iris – a “delicious, soft but dry caresse olfactive” – is combined with the “hot” spices cinnamon and clove to clean, intimate, skin-like effect.
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