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Style & Beauty Treat

Style & Beauty Treat Yourself uses animal fat. “In the past, extracting was extremely time-consuming, labourconsuming,” Mane explains. “Imagine that every day, for three months, you’d go to the field to pick the freshly blossomed flowers. One kilo of jasmine requires approximately 6,000 flowers, plus you need 300 kilos to get one kilo of concrete [the semi-solid mass obtained by solvent extraction]. Only a few old fragrance houses can still afford to use Grasse jasmine in their creations.” This diversification of both ingredients and processes has allowed Mane to stay competitive across all manner of fragrance and flavour industries, but also remain at the height of the perfume world, creating oils and tinctures for master perfumers from houses like Dior, Vuitton, Hermès or Chanel, who combine them with synthetic ingredients and spend months readjusting their “recipes”. “The perfumer has a rich palette of maybe 4,000 different ingredients,” Mane explains, “although with just two, there are already an infinite number of combinations. It’s just a question of proportion, like how much salt or pepper you put in your cooking.” Whatever the final recipes – from topshelf perfumes to hair-care products, soaps and diffusers – the goal for Mane and his 5,500 employees remains identical: to find a way to tempt the olfactive receptors that rule our brain. “Modern trends aside, there’s no fragrance without emotion,” Mane muses. “Our head is in the sky, but your feet are rooted in the ground, because that’s where we farm, extract and distil.” mane.com Jean Mane, who helms his family’s business in the fourth generation METRO MAN OF NOTE Vivian Lau created her four-piece men’s skincare collection with the urban gent in mind. Rich in nourishing, soothing and organic botanicals, Vitruvian Man is a powerful ally in combating the harmful effects of stress on the skin. vitruvian-man.com Pairing heady accents of patchouli and Indian papyrus with vibrant Sicilian blood orange and vanilla extract, Dolce & Gabbana’s latest fragrance is an intoxicating fusion of Eastern and Western influences. Available exclusively at Harrods, harrods.com PHOTOS CLOCKWISE FROM TOP RIGHT: © DOLCE & GABBANA, © VITRUVIAN MAN, DAVID MORGANTI, GERARD UFERAS 58 CENTURION-MAGAZINE.COM

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