A builder of fragrance
It is a sweaty daytime in February, and Ellena is taking stock of his myriad inspirations, at the charming 25-acre Kumarakom Lake Resort on the shores of Vembanad Lake. All the rooms are cobbled with of the region’s 200-year-old teak cottages (tharavadu). His front is all nose, a tapered sensor whose nostrils tingle and flare attending the same excitement that plays in most people’s eyebrows. They flare as he talks encircling the truffles in his freezer, procured in a furtive daylong transaction attending all the drama of a drug deal.
— Columnist Phoebe Eaton of the New York Times describes perfumer Jean-Claude Ellena’s tour to Kerala looking for inspiration for Hermès Un Jardin après la Mousson.
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