Jean-Claude has revisited the eau de cologne structure throughout his long career, always employing his signature precision and restraint. His style of perfumery is an ode to quiet, exquisite minimalism: if it were rendered into sound, it would be chamber music. If it were art, a precise watercolour sketch. And so when Frédéric asked him to reinvent the eau de cologne, Jean-Claude’s response was compellingly succinct. He began by commissioning LMR, a laboratory known for their world-class expertise in natural extraction, to develop a very specific ingredient: a bitter orange oil, specially treated so that it could be used at an extremely high concentration.