It has a ery so t sweet delicate scent

It is so ar remo ed rom my personal nir ana that it is a good counterpoint to my world o rare ied beauty It's itally important to ha e culture checks and extremes. It is impossible to distinguish and appreciate one scent without comparing it to another.The smell o the Middle East is ascinating too, especially as it is the home o ancient per umery. I lo e smelling people who are wearing one o the exotic ouds, which is the traditional method o Arab per uming. At the moment its current market alue is around ?25,000 per kilo. Gold bullion, the last time I looked, was around ?9,000 per kilo so that gi es you an example o how much these luxury oils are worth. It has the most highly praised smell o all the roses and it takes just more than 3,000 blossoms to produce a kilo o the oil.

It has a ery so t, sweet, delicate scent.When you go in the summer you ha e the Grassoise jasmine which is, again, highly prized. The air there is much cooler and the smells become so ter away rom the heat near the sea. I you go in May you can smell the Rose de May, which is a ery speci ic rose that grows only in that region. It's not only the home o modern per umery and where I disco ered it, it is also where I grew up. I lo e Th?le-sur-Mer, which is a ery small, remote illage on the Bay o Cannes. It is ery ele ated and I lo e being able to see Nice and Cannes shimmering in the heat in the distance.

The air there is hea y with the smell o dried la ender that has been scorched by the sun. There is also the smell o eucalyptus and pure heat, which is a ery e ocati e, special smell.When I'm on the C?d'Azur I always tra el up to Grasse, the capital o per umery, although sadly not a lot o it is le t today. One o the exciting things about tra elling is the di erent ol actory experiences you ha e, both positi e and negati e, which is where I take my inspiration rom.The south o rance is exceptionally important to me. So, or me, true luxury is about a product that is, maybe, hard to ind, something that has an intrinsic quality and that, by the ery nature o what it is, can ne er exist in large olumes.