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 portrait of a confident boy in a magnificent blue satin robe is known as ‘The Blue Boy’, painted by Thomas Gainsborough around 1770. The painting inspired Cécile Zarokian to create this elegant and enchanting fragrance. It can be admired at the Huntington Library in San Marino, California.
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
