What place does “La fille de Berlin” occupy in your olfactory œuvre?It evokes the contradictory dimensions of historical past. One can’t allude to pre-war Germany with out remembering the rising sentiment of the everlasting disaster that pervaded the Weimar Republic in the 20s and 30s. The escape into informal hedonism was the starting of the finish and represented a really collective human need to be accomplished with it. Intoxicating nights could be heady and interesting, however the hangovers are all the time horrible! How can one not draw parallels with the society wherein we are actually residing? Freedom has change into an phantasm, a form of entice: we’re commanded to be free, however our methods and means are constrained.And how do you situate the character on this historical past ?How do you see her? Well, first of all, she’s not a girl however a woman! The two are very various things. She is trapped between two worlds, caught between laughter and tears, pleasure and despair, distress and success. She is squarely human. She is neither the bully nor the sufferer however lies someplace between the two. She has no mitigating circumstances, and that’s why I’m so keen on her. An actual youngster of Berlin!The picture of her on this restricted version is each fairly consultant but very summary: a sketched profile towards a lamppost…To describe a picture is to destroy and damage it for individuals who will ultimately uncover it. Preserving its thriller is, subsequently, essential to me. My woman from Berlin is all angles, acute but tenuous. She is a damaged woman. Emerging from blue and purple shadows, she breaks up into the colors of concern. Alone, at the fringe of the night time, she endures amidst its inexperienced and blue zones… And the lamppost above her solely sheds mild on her to forged her much more in shadow. Her define is vital for the picture as a result of it reveals an indirect and skeletal silhouette: she seems damaged however stays standing; we don’t fairly know the way. It is an attractive but painfully transferring picture. It is exploratory and confrontational.Since you introduced up the colors, how can one miss the crimson? It is all over the place, together with in the color of the fragrance and the background of the label, in addition to the ingredient at the coronary heart of the composition, which is rose. Does the rose and its color maintain particular significance for you?The rose has existed for millennia and carries inside it a 40-million-year-old historical past… It was the first flower on earth, previous even Eve! To me, it embodies the battle to rise above our personal nothingness in addition to our need to give up to like. Frozen in snow, the pores and skin of winter, which is a season of ready and vacancy, buried in the landscapes of amnesia that erase every thing solely to start anew–that’s how I like its perfume! The crimson color echoes our beating hearts, it binds us to the previous whereas anchoring us in the current.La fille de Berlin 10-year anniversary restricted version is completely out there now at Harrods.
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