Musc & Jasmin 100ml

“I have a strong attachment to jasmine, which dates back to my childhood. In the morning, during summer holidays, I would accompany my grandmother who went to “gather the flower,” an expression that referred to jasmine. These were terraced gardens where men were absent. Women picked, chatted, laughed and seemed to enjoy being together while their children ran around. The youngest ones picked bare-armed. Their skin, golden from the sun’s caress, seemed soft to me; drops of sweat beaded from their faces down to the low neckline of their white blouses, revealing the roundness of their breasts when they bent over the flower-laden bushes. On the ground, the baskets filled up. I didn’t dare look at them, or only distractedly, on the fly. The musk of their sweat and the narcotic floral scent of jasmine intertwined and troubled me.”
Jean-Claude Ellena