(Atelier)
The atelier
Rue Jacob, Paris. One nose, six assistants, an organ of 1,200 materials and a cellar where every perfume rests for eight weeks.
(The nose)
“Forty materials is a sketch. Two hundred trials is a perfume.”
Camille Arnaud trained in Grasse and at the Osmothèque in Versailles before founding SILLAGE in 2011, in a former bookbinder’s shop on rue Jacob.
01
Brief
Every perfume starts as a sentence, never as a list of notes.
02
Organ
Our nose works at an organ of 1,200 materials. The first trial has around forty.
03
Trials
Two hundred trials on average. Each one worn for a full day, not smelled on a strip.
04
Maceration
The finished juice rests for eight weeks in steel, in the dark, at 12 °C.
05
Bottling
Filled, crimped and labelled by hand in our Paris atelier. Numbered.
(Visit)
Sit at the organ.
Atelier evenings every first Thursday, eight guests, two hours.