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Perfume Room

190. MANUEL MATHIEU ~ What Lingers: Haiti, Memory, and Home

Perfume Room

Emma Vernon

Fashion & Beauty, Arts

4.9618 Ratings

🗓️ 22 October 2025

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Manuel Mathieu is a Haitian multidisciplinary artist known worldwide for his emotionally-charged, indefinite-form paintings, drawings, ceramics, and installations. His work is held in major collections, and just last year, he was named a Companion of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres du Québec.

Three years ago, during a residency in Paris, Mathieu turned to a new medium: scent. What began as curiosity has grown into an eponymous fragrance line (Manuel Mathieu Parfums), which Manuel created alongside IFF VP perfumer Juliette Karagueuzoglou. Like his art, Manuel's perfumes evoke the intricate, layered depths of human existence.

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FRAGS MENTIONED:

Maison Mataha Printemps Blanc, YSL Black Opium, Tocca Stella, Britney Spears Curious, Hanae Mori, Nonfiction Odorama Manuel Mathieu Parfums Dsire, Eccco, Île Noire; Chanel No. 5 

MANUEL'S EXHIBIT AT THE PHI

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the perfume room. My send of the day today is Mason Mataha, Prantant Blanc. And if you saw my Instagram story, I actually acquired this scent at a wedding this past weekend. Yeah, we need to

0:23.0

normalize perfume swaps at weddings. Here's what happened. I met a fellow guest who smelled

0:28.7

amazing and as one should always practice give scent compliments where scent compliments are due,

0:35.6

especially because it will probably lead to you finding

0:38.4

out what it is that you're smelling. Anyway, that's what I did. And shout out to Elisa,

0:43.6

if you hear this. When I asked Elisa what she was wearing, she pulled out a travel size of it.

0:48.5

This was Fontaine Blanc and insisted I take it. And obviously, I never go anywhere empty-handed either.

0:54.8

So in exchange, I gave her the last few drops of my travel size of Chris Collins,

1:01.0

Lust Udiles, which is what I was wearing.

1:03.6

Well, technically, I was wearing that layered with molecule O1 plus iris.

1:08.2

Anyway, the moral of the story is that anything can be a sense swap if you just believe.

1:15.3

And since it's been a minute since I've done one of my movie pitches to describe a perfume,

1:20.5

let's do that now.

1:21.6

Here is a movie pitch of Prantan Blanc.

1:24.5

So Pronton Blanc feels like the best pieces of Yassel black opium,

1:29.2

Tokestella, and Hanei-Mori butterfly. Take the creamy, fluffy, white floral aspect of black

1:36.5

opium, but dialed down its gormon sweetness. Add a pinch of that bright orange note that

1:43.3

you get in something like Tocostella, or honestly

1:45.8

even like Britney Spears curious, to add some freshness and sparkle.

1:50.6

And then envelop all of that in a musky, doughy, warm vanilla akin to Hanymori.

1:58.2

That is Ponton Blanc, and I am enjoying it so much. It's sweet, but it's not gourmand,

2:04.0

and floral and citrus, but so cuddly and so pretty. Thank you, Elisa. Let's go to our guest

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