He also knows his perfume, having studied at Roure Bertrand Dupont with legendary perfumer Jean Amic.
WSJ: On the Scent of Luxury With an Upper East Side Perfumer
"That kind of stuff only happens to a perfumer once or twice in a lifetime, " said Turin.
Daniela Andrier, perfumer for Prada's Infusion d'Iris fragrances, has been working for years on perfecting the iris note.
"I felt like I was locked in a closet, " says Ann Gottlieb of her days working as a perfumer.
The royal family first commissioned a leading French perfumer to create one of the greatest fragrances money could buy.
His father was a perfumer who would inhale the scent of every item on the dinner table, including the water.
It turned out to be a deftly assembled fake, manufactured by a former perfumer who went into the wine counterfeiting business.
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Great fragrances are usually made by a perfumer, and an art director, who says, 'I want it to be like this.
The perfumer's flagship store in Oman, opened in 2008, is a contemporary rendition of an Omani-style house, complete with Arabic touches.
For Michelle Obama, there were candles made by London-based perfumer Miller Harris.
As long ago as the 1950s, a perfumer called Paul Jellinek noted that several ingredients of incense resembled scents of the human body.
At one point, the perfumer Bertrand Duchaufour gives Ms. Beaulieu a test fragrance that conjures the orange tree but not the two people entangled underneath it.
Ben Whishaw plays the glowering Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, born among the fish stalls of eighteenth-century Paris, who follows his nose and becomes the assistant to a noted Italian perfumer (Dustin Hoffman).
He doesn't credit himself with any particular olfactory gift such as the one possessed by Grenouille, the homicidal perfumer in the novel "Perfume, " who is blessed, or perhaps cursed, with the planet's most discerning nostrils. (If you haven't, it's a stunning read.) "I have an educated nose, " he explained.
WSJ: On the Scent of Luxury With an Upper East Side Perfumer
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