A gentle breeze is caressing my face and my hair. It’s the last day of spring but the weather, with its enveloping warmth and dizzying intensity, is casting its summerish charm all around. Delicate jasmine petals are dancing gently under the sun, accompanied by flirtatious tuberoses, shy May roses (Rose de Mai), modest geraniums and […]
Just a few weeks ago, during an afternoon like this, I was having a conversation with a well-known perfume creator from a French aristocrat family, Valentine Pozzo di Borgo. Our meeting took place in a café near the headquarters of her company Quintessence Paris. The whole experience already sounding quite surreal, I couldn’t shake off […]
