Olivia Jan
“Nature as an anchor point.”
As a child, long before knowing perfumery as a profession, Olivia Jan used to steep flowers in water to extract the fragrant oils. Contact with nature was customary for one who grew up in the heart of a natural park in north-east France, where each season had a smell: lilac and honeysuckle in the spring, fir needles heated in the summer sun, wet ground in fall and winter. Even today, she devotes a particular love to natural raw materials "which have a story to tell and bring depth": softness of mimosa, floral freshness of jasmine sambac, power of patchouli…This green-fingered city dweller grows all kinds of aromatic plants on her rooftop terrace. Her sensitivity to nature and the elements shines through in her compositions, often inspired by the atmospheres or sensations one feels in certain places. Constantly on the lookout for new pairings, she loves experimenting with unexpected encounters between ingredients and letting herself be surprised by them, right up to the test that will make her heart beat faster.
