The move is safe.
Hand, firm.
The meticulous choreography.
Leaning over her work table, Christelle Deverité paints, with liquid gold, first the legs, then the wings and finally the tiny antennae of the 69 insects in Guerlain's famous bee bottle.
It will take him an hour to embellish the reliefs of a single bottle.
Table ladies, as they are called at Guerlain, are queens of patience and dexterity.
Like Christelle, there are only six of them to carry out these rare operations for the perfumer, including "baudruchage", which guaranteed the tightness of a bottle over time, or even "barbichage" - brushing a silk thread using a thin metal blade to give it more volume.
"Since the very first bottle with bees, imagined in 1853 for the Eau de Cologne Impériale commissioned by the Empress Eugénie on the occasion of her marriage to Napoleon III, handling has not evolved much, insists
Ann- Caroline Prazan, art and culture director…
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