Zouzou

Zouzou by Celine is a Oriental Vanilla fragrance for women. Zouzou was launched in 2024. The fragrance features Vanilla, Tonka Bean, Benzoin, Musk, Patchouli and Labdanum. I wished to create a perfume about utopic adolescence, capturing an ideal of eternal youth. The recklessness of the young French writer Françoise Sagan, the ingenue boyishness of Jean Seberg filmed by Jean Luc Godard, the magnificent heroines of the Velvet Underground, together with the young women I was able to photograph more than 20 years ago. I called my new perfume for Celine “Zouzou”, an affectionate and child-like nickname that appeared in the last century to describe a young woman with short hair. — Hedi Slimane