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One of perfumery’s rising stars, Bruno Jovanovic is one whose perfumes are a challenge to everything transient
A sharply structured face and a piercing gaze, at 34, Bruno is vibrant with talent and a heightened sensitivity. His perfumes are a challenge to everything transient.
His childhood
Still only knee high to a grasshopper, Bruno was already jumping over the neighbouring fences – just as he would any future obstacle – to steal roses to make his own concoctions. Already in pursuit of new smells, he would put his nose into everything, including the aromas of his mother’s dishes simmering on the stove. In the course of his budding sensorial fantasy Bruno even went as far as renaming his family – his father became Chamomile, his mother Violet and his grandmother Rosa!
A working class family, both parents left the house early and came back late. Bruno recalls, “Smelling the perfumes hidden in the blue velvet of my mother’s dressing table while she was away was like having her beside me all the time.”
Bruno discovered a whole new world the day he came across the profusion of different perfumes on show at the big department stores. “I was with a friend who came away with a bottle of Fahrenheit in his pocket while mine were full of miniature bottled samples. I had suddenly discovered a universe I had never imagined existed that I wanted to belong to. Every day, while everyone was at the canteen, I went back. The salesgirls would say, “What would you like to try smell today? And I would leave with as many samples in my pockets as olfactive discoveries in my head.”
Studying towards becoming a perfumer
Later on, he got hold of the Dictionary of Perfumes, his ‘Bible’ which he says he knew off by heart in less than a year. His baccalaureate C under his arm, Bruno took a degree in Physics and Chemistry with one objective in mind: the ISIPCA. Two friends took the entrance exam with him. But it was Bruno who came second out of 900!
With a bright career ahead, he returned to France and IFF where he was welcomed with open arms. With his talent and originality, Bruno was able to bridge the gap between the American dream and the myth of French perfumery with the ease of a tightrope walker – who in order to get to the other side must look nowhere but straight ahead.
His beliefs
“The immediate wake of a fragrance is too ephemeral to be interesting to me.” An aesthete, who works out everything intellectually, he is acutely aware of the effect time has on raw materials. He feels so intimately linked with them that he can work out each step of their maturation and anticipate their final olfactive form.
As intellectual in his creation as he is an artist at heart, Bruno likes to play with the idea of what kind of perfume the impression of a painting or certain words would produce. “I find it just as fascinating to olfactively transpose “being 20” as interpreting the velvety texture of a yogurt.” Not in the least pretentious, Bruno sees his profession as a vocation where each creation incarnates both the expression of an art and his own sensitivity.
SOME OF HIS PERFUMES:
Perfume Calligraphy Rose by Aramis
DKNY Women City 2013 by DKNY
La Perla Blue by La Perla
Lady Million by Paco Rabanne
Lady Million Absolutely Gold by Paco Rabanne
CK IN2U Him by Calvin Klein
CK IN2U 2GO Him by Calvin Klein
Blue Rush for Her by AVON
Fierce by Abercrombie and Fitch
Idole D’Armani by Giorgio Armani
Island Hawaii by Michael Kors
Onde Extase by Armani
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