Guerlain’s inhouse perfumer Thierry Wasser visits Canada
Thierry Wasser is something special in the world of fragrance. Not only is he the new inhouse perfumer at Guerlain, but he is one of only a handful of master perfumers in the world who create a fragrance from start to finish. Most work with multinational fragrance companies to source ingredients and actually produce the scent.
Thierry joined Guerlain Canada president Francois Carlier recently to introduce the company’s elegant new scent for women called Idylle. ”Every fragrance starts with a feeling,” he said sitting in the Guerlain Boutique in Toronto. ”And I was so overjoyed to be offered this wonderful job that I wanted to shout with joy. So that’s where I started with this scent. I wanted to scream love with a fragrance.” He then asked himself how do you say love in our society? You say it with flowers. ”I made myself an impressionist arrangement of flowers with roses, lilies, peonies and freesia.”
“When it comes down to it, a perfumer is a translator of emotions into a bottle. We translate emotion into scent.” And during the 17 years he worked at fragrance manufacturer Firminich, he became known for his sophisticated use of musk notes. “That is my signature. It is what I am known for.” He used that musk sparingly in Idylle a joyful floral scent that combines notes of Bulgarian rose, lily-of-the-valley, patchouli, lilac, peony, freesia, jasmine, and white musk. It’s romantic and refined.
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