Like many people it was my mother’s perfume, Opium. Then it was the cologne given to me by my first love - Mûres et Musc de Laporte - when I was 13. Later I was going to the boutiques - the only places where one could find rare perfumes of that time, like Jicky or Mouchoir de Monsieur de Guerlain …
— Gérald Ghislain of niche line Histoires de Parfums, talking about his first memories of perfume, at the Histoires de Parfums blog.

