1 What quality do you most admire in other people?
Loving the pursuit of aesthetics
2 What do you consider the most overrated virtue?
Self-confidence. It helps neither thinking differently nor finding solutions
3 What is your greatest strength?
I am a really hard worker
4 What do you dislike most about yourself?
I can be a bit stubborn
5 What makes you happiest?
My kids
6 What is your greatest fear?
Public speaking
7 Which living person do you most despise?
My car mechanic
8 What is your greatest extravagance?
Explosive fragrances
9 When do you lie?
What is a lie?
10 Why did you choose to create in the art medium of scent?
Because until I met my wife, my love for perfume was even stronger than my love for women, and the perfumes never dumped me
11 Who are the architect, the musician or group, and the film director whose artistic style and aesthetics most closely resemble yours?
Magritte
12 Which scent raw material can you not live without?
Ciste labdanum
13 Which scent raw material do you never use?
I’ve never used narcissus, but during the lockdown I worked with it and now I’m willing to do a good narcissus
14 What is your favorite perfume of your own?
القمر (The Moon)
15 What is your favorite perfume not your own?
Habit Rouge. My first love
16 If you had to choose in another person: bad breath or bad body odor?
Bad body odor - I don’t know why people with bad breath always want to talk so close to your face
17 Which city or place smells the best?
Arabian nights when the scent of food, saffron, cardamom, shisha, burning oud, oud on people’s skin, and frangipani flowers are perfuming the air
18 What do you most want that you could get if you had enough money?
I am really into properties and restoration. So a castle
19 What do you most want that money cannot buy?
A good planetary ecological balance
20 Of all your time at Fragranze, what aspect has most surprised or interested you?
The passion of the people who are handling their projects and the amount of crazy ideas you get there
