Do you know Sohrab Chitan ? Sohrab is part of the Bon Parfumeur community and fully supports all our wildest ideas. To help you get to know this raw talent better, we'd like to share his story.
Dancer and choreographer Sohrab is a true enthusiast who devotes his body and soul to his art. What motivates him? It is through relentless dancing that he finds happiness and accesses emotions ranging from passion to heartbreak to fear. In a nutshell, it is when he feels alive.
Dance and choreography are one for Sohrab. In the studio, he loves to sweat as much as his dancers, whom he guides with passion. He also enjoys stepping aside to become one of their most fervent spectators. It's a quote from Maurice Béjart that resonates most deeply with Sohrab: "Choreography is like love: it takes two people."
Although trained in classical dance, he refuses to be pigeonholed. Neither classical nor contemporary dancer... but an immensely talented artist, eager to share his art with as many people as possible!
A few words from Sohrab:
We are very committed to passing on our expertise and demonstrating the authenticity of our fragrances. Dance is also about passing on knowledge, isn't it?
Dance is a lifelong learning process. It's about passing it on to other dancers and learning from the artists who work in the service of dance. It's wonderful to see this constant transmission, one way or the other.
Perfume is something very personal and emotional, how do you feel when you wear it?
I finish getting dressed when I put on perfume. At that moment, when I finish my morning ritual, it sets the tone for my day. Perfume gives us a sense of grounding and existence, like dancing, which is by definition grounding. To dance is to rise, but you must already be anchored to the ground.
The body, the skin, and the warmth it emits bring fragrances to life. What connection would you make between the art of perfuming and that of dancing?
To perfume oneself is to take on a scent, but scents are also very identifiable. When I dance, there are a multitude of scents surrounding me: the scent of my partners, of rosin, of the stage. Sweat also has a scent. All mixed with the perfumes that individuals wear, this unique and ultra-personal blend marks time and space. The link between these two art forms is perspiration and water.
You are in great demand, if people want to come and see you dance, where do they go?
We danced at the Villa Noailles. It was a performance for the 36th edition of the fashion festival. For April 7th, I'm working on the piece "Fin de journée Deter" .
Sohrab vibrates and reasons with passion. Much like our creative perfumers who write twisted and unique fragrances for us, he invents choreographies that tell us a new story each time...
Take a look at his website, and his Instagram account .
