Moleskine Monday: Perfumer Jean-Claude Ellena on His Notebooks

Jean-Claude Ellena, a perfume maker, talks about how he uses a Moleskine notebook:

“My tools are test blotters, a pencil, a block of paper and, for a number of years now, a notebook. It was as I approached forty that I started making notes on accords, ideas for perfumes, writing down thoughts, copying out quotations, at first on loose sheets of paper that piled up until I arranged them alphabetically in files of various sizes. Then there was the Moleskine notebook. I like the size and shape of it because I can slip it into my pocket, like a wallet. I appreciate the elastic strap that keeps it closed, and means it can hold notes jotted quickly on to loose pages.”

Some of those notes will surely have made it into his book, The Diary of a Nose: A Year in the Life of a Parfumeur. (Available now in the UK, January 2013 in the US.)

Read more at AnOther Thing I Wanted to Tell You – Perfumer Jean-Claude Ellena on the Moleskine Notebook | AnOther.

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