Smell like the 'Venus de Milo': Louvre creates art-inspired perfumes

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The Louvre in Paris has asked two of France's top 'noses' — otherwise known as perfume creators — to come up with fragrances to go with some of its greatest treasures.

— the museum's most famous work — who will guard her fragrance, like so much else, secret.Jean-Honoré Fragonard [Public domain] via Wikimedia Commons, the famous seduction scene that some feminists critics now say raises questions of consent.

Dorothee Piot, who works for Robertet house in the French perfume capital of Grasse, chose Gainsborough's 1745 masterpiece. "I loved the candour and the grace of the two of them, so I came up with a perfume inspired by roses that have just come out surrounded by greenery," she said.

 

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