
Essay
January 2025
3 min
The smell of the atelier
The atelier smells of leather, wax, wood. This smell is not a perfume — it is a memory.
The atelier smells of leather, wax, wood. This smell is not a perfume.
It is a memory — that of materials that dried, leathers that breathed, woods that were cut.
When you enter the atelier, you enter this memory.
It cannot be reproduced. It cannot be bought. It is earned through time.
Stéphane Loubière
Stéphane Loubière · Paris