Thibaudet introduced him to Mathilde Laurent, perfumer for French luxury house Cartier, who was experimenting with the dry diffusion of fragrance. Instead of creating a liquid fragrance ...

But whether that was the Cartier technology or my seatmates’ colognes, I couldn’t discern. The first fragrance came at the beginning, the section Laurent calls “before the fire.” ...

Cartier has just unveiled a new installation that converts fragrance from an intangible sensation into a visible experience. The project is the brainchild of Cartier’s head perfumer Mathilde Laurent ...