ROJA DOVE

If there’s one man to evoke the smell of Manchester, it’s Roja Dove. Dove was obsessed with fragrance from an early age. His first recollection of scent was his mother coming to kiss him goodnight in a gold lamé dress before leaving for a cocktail party when he was about six. The scent created a magical scene in his memory.

Wearing a generous amount of her favourite perfume, WorkLife’s Anna-Louise relaxed in the comfort of the Harvey Nichols personal shopping department and came nose to nose with the man himself…

the inter view

It might seem astonishing that the man who has become associated as the voice of perfumery should be English. However he is quick to point out that Pierre-Francois Pascal Guerlain, who founded Guerlain in 1828, studied chemistry in England.

How appropriate that Roja Dove trod an almost identical path. As a medical research student in Cambridge, he happened to visit the Belle Époque Guerlain boutique on the Champs- Elysees, and lost his heart completely to the exoticism of a thousand cut glass bottles and their mysterious contents.

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