“Perfume makes people desirable, it’s a fabulous power. [...] to create emotion in my fellow men and women, [...] contributing to building bonds of community, religion or love, generating self-confidence, bringing people together and inviting them to take an interest in each other, even just to see what others smell like.”
Dominique Ropion
Master Perfumer
SOURCE OF INSPIRATION
The interplay of mind and skin. Fleshy scents and the mystique of mechanisms of desire: “I create perfumes because I love talking about love, sexuality and freedom.” Constructing artistic forms and musical, architectural and pictorial edifices.
KEY TO CREATION
Imagination. “I strive to make the flower imaginary, springing from a walled garden, rather than figurative.”
MISSION STATEMENT
“Perfume makes people desirable, it’s a fabulous power. My undertaking is to try to create emotion in my fellow men and women, letting them feel more present in the world or step back from it, contributing to building bonds of community, religion or love, generating self-confidence, bringing people together and inviting them to take an interest in each other, even just to see what others smell like.”
PASSION
Nature, scaling nature’s heights:
“You can’t be a dilettante; the molecules won’t let you get away with it.”
