There is a profile on Serge Lutens, including a brief interview, on the osmoz site:
The raw ingredients are alive, they move around and create surprises. You have to be ready to guide the fragrance in an unconscious way.
And in other news, the latest smell research results:
Canadian researchers have determined that most people's noses appear to pick up scents better when they are sitting or standing compared to when they're reclining.
(via Yahoo News link expired, sorry!)
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Maybe because when you're lying down, your nose to lungs air passages are constricted? or something? Or you're asleep? Did they say that we can detect scents best of all when we're down on all fours like a bloodhound?
L, apparently other senses are less acute when lying down too, and according to the article, probably to help you sleep.