Chanel’s perfumer extraordinaire, Olivier Polge, is blazing a trail. In an exclusive interview, he talks stardust, skin scents and Comète
How do you capture stardust in a bottle? That’s the somewhat nebulous challenge Olivier Polge, Chanel’s perfumer since 2015, set himself for Comète, the 19th eau de parfum in the Les Exclusifs collection. Comète joins this firmament of scents that span more than a century, with four dating back to the 1920s, created by N°5 perfumer Ernest Beaux. “These are very singular scents – they are for the people who don’t want to smell the same as everyone else,” explains Polge.
“I started with the idea of glow and the impression of stardust,” the softly spoken perfumer explains. “I found it interesting to gather powdery notes, but to stay very luminous at the same time, and that’s not the obvious way. I gathered ingredients that were not only powdery but also flowery at the same time.” He played on notes of heliotrope, iris extract and musk, “certain almondy notes that remind me of cherry blossom – fruity and citrussy with a warm, almondy undertone.
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