When you have a conversation with Francis Kurkdjian about fragrance, you won’t find yourself talking about scents and flowers, but rather about art, in an array of mediums. The award-winning founder of Maison Francis Kurkdjian luxury fragrances and Perfume Creation Director of Parfums Christian Dior has an impressive vocabulary about the creative process, a lexicon that he is constantly expanding.
At one point during our interview, he compares creating perfume to playing the piano. At another, he hones in on how fragrances can be as sharp as Pointillism or as abstract as Impressionism. References to Damien Hirst, Salvador Dalí, and Andy
