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Used to honor the gods for millennia, the perfume has always fascinated.
The three Wise Men brought to baby Jesus the rarest and most precious scents. Men gave their lives to find immortality like the old King Aeson who let the sorceress Medea open his throat to replace his blood with the most powerful elixir. Shakespeare was inspired by the passion of Cleopatra who had perfumed the sails of her own ship to regain the heart of Mark Antony when he wrote:
«The wind was lovesick.»
A perfume is a revelation of soul, an elixir given to human beings to show their true essence, their light and their shadow. In the famous novel by Patrick Süskind, «Perfume,» his hero Jean-Baptiste Grenouille kills to create the ultimate scent to be loved to death. He collects the most intimate odors of his victims to extract the secrets of carnal seduction that lead to the arousal of desire.
Each of us has inside our being some garden of smells, scents of Proust’s Madeleine that awaken our memories, the best and the worst.
