{"id":27562,"date":"2022-09-20T16:12:38","date_gmt":"2022-09-20T12:12:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/me\/?post_type=articles&p=27562"},"modified":"2022-09-21T10:55:57","modified_gmt":"2022-09-21T06:55:57","slug":"kilian-hennessy-oud-fragrance-interview","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/me\/articles\/kilian-hennessy-oud-fragrance-interview\/","title":{"rendered":"Kilian Hennessy: “The Middle Easten Woman Is The Most Sophisticated Customer When It Comes To Fragrance”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Nestled in the Cedarwood forests of Ifran, Morocco, the smell of oud fills the air. It’s been 10 years since Kilian Paris<\/a> launched its first iteration of Rose Oud and Sacred Oud, a uniquely spicy blend of cumin, sandalwood, and cedar that’s enough to make even the most daring of palettes crave something a little more divisive. And now, as the brand’s 15th anniversary approaches, founder and modern master of fragrance Kilian Hennessy<\/a>\u00a0tells GRAZIA why the oud’s 2022 reintroduction to the market is here to make people rethink their relationship with scent.<\/p>\n

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GRAZIA<\/strong>: Why did you decide to relaunch Sacred Oud and Rose Oud?<\/strong><\/p>\n

KILIAN<\/strong>: These are creations from ten years ago and I found it beautiful in a way to relaunch them for the brand\u2019s 15th<\/sup> anniversary. They are two scents that I feel maybe were too advanced ten years ago. They were more for the connoisseur and not for everyone. It\u2019s like a Soulages painting. Not everyone is going to say I love Soulages. But if you get close to a Soulages and start looking at it from different angles and see how his lines allow light to come in then you start to appreciate the painting. These two scents are very complex. They are also the only two creations of which I have received compliments from other perfumers, which, I have to tell you, it\u2019s beyond rare for competitors to congratulate you. In the case of Rose Oud, I wanted to take the classic tree of the Middle East, which is saffron, and blend it with rose and oud but to build a more Western scent. In a way, it\u2019s a homage to the Middle East but without trying to copy what already exists in the region, because there are already thousands of rose oud scents. So the idea was to have a fusion of both the Arab and French world.<\/p>\n

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