In The Lab

Photography by Ma Récréation. Top, François Demachy sprays perfume on strands of card he wanted me to smell. Bottom: the hundreds of unfinished formulas on his desk. From the jasmine fields to Grasse where he was born, François Demachy has managed to preserve a slight sing-songy accent. And an obsession with beautiful materials. Already (More...)

Photography by Ma Récréation. Top, Daniela Andrier who really doesn’t like to be shot, bottom, her amazing study leading out to the garden. She’s one of the most elegant figures in the perfume world. A Hitchcockian beauty whose taste one can trust. She is chic enough to match her outfits – often Prada or Azzedine Alaïa – with jewellery created (More...)

Photography by Ma Récréation. Isabelle Doyen on the left, Camille Goutal on the right. Above: a shelf filled with vintage bottles with a background photograph of Annick Goutal (right) and Brigitte Taittinger (left). One grew up in the wake of her mother’s creations in imagining she would become a photographer. The other always dreamt of pears (More...)