Sometimes Magic Happens – An Interview With Guerlain’s Delphine Jelk

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I thought about two lovers hanging out in Paris, during the night. I imagined that patchouli is my lover and that I have to tame it, to make it mine. So I added some of the vanilla tincture that we make at Guerlain. We cut vanilla beans into small pieces and we put them in alcohol for 21 days to obtain a tincture. It’s not a sweet vanilla. It’s spicy, a little smoky, woody, balsamic.

To read the rest of this interview with Guerlain’s Delphine Jelk, in which she talks about the creation of the bestselling La Petite Robe Noire, as well as the new Patchouli Paris, please click on this link to my Substack: Guerlain Delphine Jelk interview.

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