Jean Claude Ellena, the house nose at Hermès, is in Sydney, Australia to help launch the Terre d’Hermes fragrance. And no, he doesn’t wear it himself:
He does not splash on cologne, his armpits are a deodorant-free zone and he steers clear of perfumed soaps.
“It is to protect myself,” he said. “When I smell odours around me I’m starting to say, well, this contains that and that, so I am starting to work, but I want to concentrate only on creating my own perfumes so I try to avoid smell.”
Read the rest in The Australian (link no longer working, sorry!)
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call me cynical but I don't see that eschewing deoderant is the best way to create an odour free zone.
I'm not sure why unscented deodorant wouldn't do…but perhaps if your nose is sensitive enough, there is no such thing as truly unscented?
ooh, my smelling bad
All of a sudden I'm getting visions of Kevin Kline in A Fish named Wanda
aargh – spelling, spelling. Not smelling
LOL…no worries, I do the same
I use an unscented deoderant that actually has a faint musc scent. I couldn't figure out what the nice musc smell was on my clothing that I would catch a wiff of from time to time, and finally clued into the fact that it was the deoderant.
Interesting. I've also noticed that many of my unscented products have a bit of a smell. I guess we need some sort of FDA-imposed labelling requirements…
I have long been amused by the fact that I can smell Dove Unscented soap from halfway down the aisle in Duane Reade (and I like the scent)!
Really? I'll have to give it a sniff next time I'm at the store. Hard to imagine Dove without that “Dove scent”.