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George Sand’s perfume is recreated by a perfumer, an anthropologist and two esthetes

The travel bottle sat on one of George Sand’s dressing tables at his home in Gargilles, Bury. This unexpected residue is the start of a slightly crazy project that brings together Annick Le Guerant, perfume historian and anthropologist; Dominique Ropion, MKP perfumer; Benoît Astier de Villatte and Ivan Pericoli, founders of Astier de Villatte and their accomplice and designer Emilie Mazo. Their ambition is to recreate the perfume worn by the writer.

When Christian Sand, one of George Sand’s descendants, entrusted this little bottle to Annick Le Guerrant, the texture had turned dark and thick because the alcohol had evaporated and the cork was completely stuck.recalls Dominique Ropion. In order not to break the bottle, we pierced its base with a very fine drill and extracted a few drops to analyze them with a chromatograph. (a device that allows you to separate molecules in a liquid and note their abundance, editor’s note). We…

Source: Le Figaro

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