Tag Archives: Gérard Anthony

Azzaro sees red

1 October 2009
What happens when a perfumer sees himself given an exercise in style based on a 30 year-old fragrance? “You wonder how to preserve its relationship to the past, which elements to keep and which ones to do away with, ” explains Michel Girard, perfumer at Givaudan. Especially when the fragrance in question is the great Azzaro pour Homme, signed b...
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Antoine de Boutiny “An outsider on parfumery and aromas!”

1 October 2009
Antoine de Boutiny is the happy president of the Grasse-based company Jean Niel, this year celebrating its 230th birthday. You do the math: it has been the supplier of exceptional raw materials, like the derivatives of vetiver, patchouli and anethol, from 1779 to now, adding up to a lot of years, tons of raw materials, and as many memories that bel...
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