For thirty years Dominique Roques has
"embarked on an aromatic and emotional journey"
which continues to amaze him.
After having been a lumberjack, a rose planter in Bulgaria and a distiller, for ten years he has been a sourcer for the Swiss family company Firmenich, a pioneer in the world of fragrances and aromas.
A unique experience that this scent enthusiast recounted in a recently published book,
Picker of essences, to the sources of world fragrances
(Grasset) which takes us to distant lands, to discover landscapes and smells. rare and craftsmen with ancestral know-how.
A journey through human history.
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Its job is to supply perfumers' pallets with essences or extracts from natural raw materials.
That is more than 150 products from around 50 countries.
If perfume has been, since the 19th century, a mixture of synthetic molecules and natural products, the latter constitute
“its soul”,
emphasizes
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