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“The Perfumer Who Refuses to Advertise:
Inside the Workshop of Maison Frédéric Malle”

On a side street in the 1st arrondissement, past a florist and a wine cave that has been there since the Revolution, there is a door with no sign. You would walk by it a hundred times and never know what was behind it. Inside, Édouard Bergerac has been composing perfumes for thirty-one years without a single advertisement, without a retail account, without a distributor outside France.

“The Americans find me through word of mouth,” he says, pouring two small glasses of Armagnac. “That is the only kind of finding that means anything. If you have to be told to want something, you don't really want it yet.”

“A perfume should feel like a secret you are allowed to keep.”

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