Perfumer Juliette Karagueuzoglou On Her Newest Scent

Purple soles make Christian Louboutins the most recognizable sneakers on this planet. Although virtually everybody is aware of what Christian Louboutin seems like, what does the model odor like? That query was answered by the 5 perfumers who every created a perfume for the most recent Christian Louboutin Magnificence perfume assortment, Fétiche, which celebrates the tenth anniversary of its iconic nail polish, therefore the inspiration for the fragrance bottles.

Juliette Karagueuzoglou is among the perfumers who created the unisex fragrances that balanced the model’s DNA with every perfumer’s fashion, leading to scents which might be each impactful and joyful. Her fragrance, Fétiche Le Cuir, pays homage to leather-based, a fabric on the coronary heart of Christian Louboutin, rounded out with floral osmanthus notes and a musky base. Under, Karagueuzoglou chats about Le Cuir, her favourite ingredient, and the odor of her grandmother’s home.

What was your artistic course of for making Christian Louboutin Magnificence Fetiche Le Cuir?

While you create a perfume for Louboutin, you wish to create [a scent] with some sillage, as a result of if you put on a pair of Louboutin sneakers, it’s one thing that has influence and energy. I began on Le Cuir excited about a leathery perfume that’s gentle and horny. So, on this one, we used a particular ingredient, osmanthus. It is a little bit flower from China, and the odor may be very gentle. There is a creamy apricot facet that’s not candy however extra like a floral. It is recent and velvety, gentle, and a bit fruity. It brings [in] a number of the DNA of Louboutin being leathery, horny, sensual. There is a pleasure for me on this model that we would have liked to have within the fragrances as properly.

When did you resolve to change into a perfumer?

Since I used to be a baby, I used to be actually occupied with fragrances. I might acknowledge the fragrances of my mother’s mates after they arrived at our house earlier than I noticed them. I’ve all the time been keen about smelling. After I was 13, I found the job of a perfumer after which I selected that as my aim. I studied every little thing I wanted to enter ISIPCA, a fragrance faculty in France, after which began as a perfumer 17 years in the past. Now I’m at IFF.

What’s your earliest scent reminiscence?

Once we expertise fragrances they supply us with feelings that stick in our brains for all our life. What you bear in mind out of your childhood is essential on your future. Your reminiscence is capitalizing on what you’re feeling and expertise earlier than. You bear in mind locations, folks, meals quite a bit. In truth, I believe that is what you utilize as a perfumer–your first emotion to fragrances. Then you definitely create primarily based on that in a while. All the things that you have smelled earlier than as a baby or younger grownup is essential for you as a perfumer. At present, I’ve fewer feelings when smelling fragrances as a result of my financial institution of fragrances is large. However I believe that the feelings I’ve from my childhood are nonetheless very current and crucial, like my grandma.

What did your grandmother’s home odor like?

Lilac as a result of [she had] an enormous lilac backyard. So now for me, lilac is linked to my grandma.

What’s your favourite odor now?

I like chypre. I believe it [brings up] reminiscences from my aunts, but in addition my mother’s mates [that used to visit] once I was a baby. Again then the chypres [fragrances] have been very robust and quite common in the marketplace.

What are your favourite notes to formulate with?

Patchouli is one in all my favourite substances. It is like a magical ingredient. You should use it for a lot of causes and in numerous quantities, and every time it brings one thing totally different.

How would you describe your perfume fashion?

I like to precise robust concepts with my fragrances. I wish to make sure that the story I inform with the model may be very sharp to people who find themselves going to put on the perfume. [I want it to be] noticeable and memorable as a result of what’s most vital about perfume, is that persons are going to recollect you due to [how you smell]. So, the sillage and the path it’s going to depart for others is essential as properly.

What’s your private perfume wardrobe like?

It would not evolve that a lot as a result of I keep on with issues that I like for some time. I am not sporting fragrances daily, as a result of once I’m at work, I can not actually put on [them]. Then on the finish of the day, I am sporting the trials of the day on my pores and skin. [Oftentimes, the] subsequent day, I will [go back and] rework them.

What are your suggestions for making fragrances final longer?

You need to have hydrated pores and skin. Being hydrated retains the molecules on the pores and skin. You should purchase the physique lotion that goes together with the perfume, or if it would not exist, you’ll be able to placed on one thing that has no odor. I put on fragrances on my garments and on my hair as a result of after they transfer, they develop a perfume round me.