She composed the Perfume

“The Perfume Mobile offered me a unique and very surprising opportunity to experiment with a different way of creating. I loved the exercise.

I rediscovered the ingredients: simply by being in motion in space, they do not behave in the same way. They live their lives, evaporate – each at their own pace – and I let them live. I liked to imagine the overall scent of the mobile, to imagine its facets dancing in the air, and to be surprised by its permanent recomposition. For me, this is truly a new way of composing and feeling perfume, the beginning of a new adventure that inspires me and that I want to pursue.”

Anne Flipo

Master Perfumer at IFF, which she joined in 2004. She composes for the major brands of selective perfumery (Yves Saint Laurent, Paco Rabanne or Lancôme…) while creating for more confidential brands, such as l’Artisan Parfumeur or Jo Malone. She loves to be drawn into artistic perfumed adventures.

“I had a unique and poetic sensory experience. Christel Sadde’s mobile installation impresses by its imposing dimensions as much as by its delicacy, inviting to contemplation and evasion. The pleasure of walking and moving through the work, of breathing and discovering, as the air flows, the notes of perfume, sometimes green and bucolic, fresh and ozonic or woody. With each step, the senses are captivated, heckled and caressed. The fragrance never ceases to decompose and recompose under our nose. An enchanting and timeless moment.”

Yohan Cervi

Creative director of the independent perfume laboratory Maëlstrom. Expert in the history of perfume, co-author of the book Les 111 parfums qu’il faut avoir sentis avant de mourir (The 111 perfumes you must smell before you die), he is a contributor to the online magazine Au Parfum and to the magazine Nez.

“As always when dealing with places where there are odorous sources, the first encounter with Parfum Volabile#1 takes place upon entering the exhibition space thus odorized. A few steps further on, however, we find ourselves in a new fragrance, then in its nuance. The overall composition – the one we perceive upon entering – declines its facets. The odorous subsets come to life according to the movements of the mobile and our own displacements. It is in this double mobility that the originality of this work is played out: that of the odorous areas and that of the visitors, fascinated by the play of the light on the “odor-bearers” which slide in the air and by that of the olfactory labilities.”

Suzel Balez

Lecturer at ENSAPLV – École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Paris La Villette -, researcher at the Laboratoire AAU – Ambiances Architectures Urbanités – (UMR CNRS 1563), she is the author of a fascinating doctoral thesis on Olfactory Ambiences in built space.