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CHANEL Parfumeur – Chapter 2

  • July 30, 2019
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CHANEL reveals a new chapter in a series of films dedicated to its perfuming expertise. After laying the foundations of the creation of CHANEL Fragrances, the House turns it over to Perfumer-Creator, Olivier Polge.

In this second chapter, “I AM A NOSE”, Olivier Polge tells of his childhood memories and reveals his desire to “compose and write formulas made of notes and accords”.

I AM A NOSE

Fragrance has a family history for me.

My parents met at a perfumery school and I was four years old when my father became the CHANEL nose.

Even though I grew up in Paris, the scents of my childhood are tied to Provence.

I remember the smell of the damp stones of my grandparents’ house and the scents of the sunbaked shrubland in the hills beyond.

My parents loved painting, and I remember the smell of turpentine in their friends’ art studios.

But more than perfume or painting, music was my first passion.

When I was 20, I started learning the craft, and I discovered that music and fragrance spoke the same language. I would have to compose and write formulas made of notes and accords.

I remember the day I told my father I wanted to follow in his footsteps. He told me it was a bad idea.

I remember when I first saw the weighing of the harvests and my first trips—bergamot in Calabria, lemons in Syracuse and jasmine in Grasse.

And then I remember one day, CHANEL asked me to rewrite a contemporary version of N°5 without losing any of its character or mystery.

I had become the CHANEL nose.

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