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• The perfumer who hates perfume: An interview with Christopher Brosius

  

  by Liz Upton, 01 September 2008 Interviews

  Zephyr is a big dog. I met him a month ago and a few thousand miles away, but as I shut my eyes, it is as if he's lying on the carpet in front of me. He's rolling on his back, encouraging me to rub his pinkly dogsome tummy, and he smells very strongly and wetly canine. His master, Christopher Brosius, would understand this hallucinatory kind of scent memory - in this case sparked by some smears of doggy smell that rubbed off my hands onto my notebook and seem to have been fixed by something on the scent test strips I have tucked into the cover. Brosius' perfumery is all about lucid and occasionally startling scent memories and illusions. The vials in his shop are magic portals which allow you to revisit your grandmother's tomato greenhouse, experience a worm's-eye view of a luminous flower or stamp your way through a hot, mulchy forest; all standing in a bare room with your eyes tightly shut and your nose twitching with surprise....

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• Christopher Brosius and why we don't perceive perfume as art ~ deleted scenes from The Perfect Scent

  

  by Chandler Burr, 15 January 2008 Articles

  In the third of our series of 'deleted scenes' from the forthcoming book The Perfect Scent, Burr recounts an exchange with perfumer Christopher Brosius (Demeter and CB I Hate Perfume) about our senses
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