It's not the reformulation of Guerlain classic perfumes and the IFRA cultural genocide that made the headline of the french press (what they call "actu") but the racism. Jean Paul Guerlain, apparently unintentionally, said on a TV interview about the creation of Samsara on France 2: "For once, I worked like a nigger. I don't know if niggers have worked that much, but anyway..." ("Pour une fois, je me suis mis à travailler comme un nègre. Je ne sais pas si les nègres ont toujours tellement travaillé, mais enfin...")
Saturday people were demonstrating in front of Guerlain Champs Elysées shop and they protested also at the Guerlain counter at Galeries Lafayette. A campaign for boycotting Guerlain products has started and this LVMH racial affair reminds another dark&dirty l'Oréal case from the early 90's Bitter Scent: The Case of L'oreal, Nazis, and the Arab Boycott
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.The news about Guerlain manifestation is on Agence France Presse (french) and The Guardian (english).
But there are also those who love Jean Paul Guerlain and his perfumes and found this case unjust. Here you have Do you Love Jean-Paul Guerlain and His Perfumes? (from Russia, thanks Sergey) and from Holland, also on facebook.
I'm quite sad about the reaction of newspapers in France. For years they were not able to speak about the reformulations of french perfumes and how IFRA and Bruxelles have destroyed their heritage, but now, when Jean Paul Guerlain, at the venerable 74, made a faux pas, they are all to attack him. It has been also a tense week in Paris - strikes, no fuel, a new controversial law.
But there are also those who love Jean Paul Guerlain and his perfumes and found this case unjust. Here you have Do you Love Jean-Paul Guerlain and His Perfumes? (from Russia, thanks Sergey) and from Holland, also on facebook.
I'm quite sad about the reaction of newspapers in France. For years they were not able to speak about the reformulations of french perfumes and how IFRA and Bruxelles have destroyed their heritage, but now, when Jean Paul Guerlain, at the venerable 74, made a faux pas, they are all to attack him. It has been also a tense week in Paris - strikes, no fuel, a new controversial law.
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