‘I see Pour un Homme as an impressionist landscape in two colours: mauve and brown, with just a few light touches of yellow and green in places.
‘The colour purple is present from the very first seconds, like a thick velvet, tending towards plum, almost crimson, barely diluted with a little pinkish orange.’
‘When you read these extracts from reviews published some time ago on the Auparfum website, you can guess that colour has often been useful to me in describing and sharing how a fragrance makes me feel. Does that make me a synesthete? I've never thought so. But like many people, I like to use the other senses to express an olfactory emotion, and colour has always been one of them.
And yet, if we are to believe a number of press releases, synaesthesia now seems to be used in all sorts of ways, like ‘this project that pushes the limits of synaesthesia’, or this ‘multi-sensory universe that allows you to experiment with a new fragrance using synaesthesia’.
As if simultaneous exposure to smells, sounds and colours suddenly gave you such an ability. I won't go into what synaesthesia means here, as an article in this edition does it very well (spoiler, it's a bit more complicated than that). But whether or not you're a synaesthete, every time you smell something, close your eyes, open your nose and let the olfactory rainbow unfold’. - Jeanne Doré (Editorial Director of Nez)
EDITORIAL
by Jeanne Doré
THE NOSE OF... DANCE
In what olfactory environment do the dancers twirl?
ICONS
People with fine noses
ODORAMA
Everything you always wanted to know about smells but were afraid to ask.
MOLECULES
Sandalwood notes
THE HERB
Mastic, an ancestral bubble-gum
DISSECTION
The pharmacy
HOW DOES IT WORK?
Developing a captive
CORRESPONDENCES
Invisible, inescapable, scents accompany all fields of creation.
THE FILMMAKER
Jane Campion
OLFACTORY PORTFOLIO
Under the cap
THE CITRUS PRODUCER
Marion Laperche
THE ARTIST
Koo Jeong A
THE WORK
Nude in the bath
ANOSMIC CHRONICLE
I touch therefore I am
MAGAZINE
An exploration of the world of perfume through its players, its manufacturing secrets and its history.
TERRITORY
India, the colour of water mint
REPORTAGE
Siamese benzoin, tears of happiness
INTERVIEW
NATHALIE LORSON
WORLD PERFUMERY
China, pride, boldness and uniqueness
SPECIAL REPORT
THE COLOUR OF SMELLS
Whether it's on packaging, in bottles, in nature or in our brains, can we smell in technicolour?
CAHIER PERFUMES
From consumer product to work of art: Nez delves behind the scenes of the industry and deciphers the 30 new products that are making the news.
SURVEY
Happiness in a bottle
GENEALOGY
Féminité du Bois by Serge Lutens
BRAND PORTRAIT
Eris Parfums
SELECTION
Favourites & new products
MAINSTREAM
What's new downstairs?
MOOD NOTE
Book bouquets
