When modern perfumers meet the old masters of painting. The Parfums MDCI Paris brand has commissioned a selection of renowned perfumers to create fragrances inspired by masterpieces of painting.
This stunning portrait entitled ‘Man with a White Plume’ of an unknown young man – perhaps a Venetian – painted around 1523 by Titian inspired Nathalie Feisthauer to create this delicate and moving fragrance. The painting can be admired at the Louvre in Paris.
The story behind the painting perfumes
"We asked perfumers to translate their ideas, feelings, images and emotions into fragrances inspired by a selection of carefully chosen masterpieces of painting. These paintings are the inspiration for four men's fragrances, which will later be followed by four women's fragrances based on four different paintings, some also from the Louvre, others from other collections.
Each painting evokes a particular character, era or mood (Venice, a battlefield, France, the English countryside, etc.) that each perfumer can use to express themselves.
Cécile Zarokian gave me her “Blue Boy”, which I had to call “Bleu Satin” for copyright reasons, Nathalie Feisthauer composed Géricault's fighting horseman with the name “Cuir Cavalier” and Titian's “L'Homme aux Gants”." – Claude Marchal
