Jean-Claude Ellena famous quotes

Smell is a word, perfume is literature.
-- Jean-Claude Ellena

#Smell #Literature #Perfume

Perfume is a story in odors, sometimes a poetry of memory
-- Jean-Claude Ellena

#Memories #Odor #Stories

Beautiful and minimalist, the traditional Japanese art of ikebana - arranging bouquets of cut flowers and leaves using very few elements - ideally corresponded to a form of expression I could transpose in a perfume. The smell of a rose early in the morning, damp, sprinkled with dew, delicate and light.
-- Jean-Claude Ellena

#Beautiful #Art #Morning

As a person, I take pleasure in receiving and sharing. As a perfumer, I like showing and convincing.... I'm quite simply following the trajectory of an artist, someone who seeks and, sometimes, finds.
-- Jean-Claude Ellena

#Artist #Receiving #Sometimes

Oddly, though, lists are reassuring. We become aware of this if we scrupulously follow a recipe, which is essentially a list of ingredients and actions; but if we give this 'list' too much importance, we leave no room for the imagination.
-- Jean-Claude Ellena

#Giving #Imagination #Recipes

My visitors say they noticed perfumes from different companies in my fridge, and ask what I need these for. I explain that they are mainly there as historical benchmarks of quality, below which I must not and would not want to fall.
-- Jean-Claude Ellena

#Fall #Historical #Quality

The future does not really lie in discovering new fragrant raw materials.... In order to endure, haute perfumery is therefore condemned to inventing new olfactory promises...to finding a new form of expression.
-- Jean-Claude Ellena

#Lying #Expression #Order

Who that has reason, and his smell, Would not among roses and jasmin dwell?

I even love the smell of books.

We are homesick for places, we are reminded of places, it is the sounds and smells and sights of places which haunt us and against which we often measure our present.

In the lack of judgment great harm arises, but one vote cast can set right a house.

Whoever is new to power is always harsh.

For children preserve the fame of a man after his death.

I like perfume and flowers.

Sweet praise is like perfume. It is fine if you don't swallow it.

A perfume is an intimate object, it is the reflector of the heart.

Smell is a word, perfume is literature.