{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Compelling with Katy Wellesley Wesley","title":"Bonus Content: The Pleasure of Art Through Smell","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":238,"description":"What would you keep perfectly preserved in a bottle if it could be anything other than perfume?\nIn this bonus episode of Compelling, host Katy Wellesley-Wesley returns to her conversation with Marc Chaya, co-founder and CEO of Maison Francis Kurkdjian, for a more philosophical exchange on creativity, perception and the legitimacy of scent as art.\nMarc argues that we have been taught to appreciate art through sight and sound, yet rarely through the nose. He unpacks the long technical training behind perfumery, the difference between mastering a craft and being a true creator, and Kant's idea of the genius of creativity, where imagination and reasoning fall into spontaneous harmony.\nHe closes with a striking answer to Katy's question, choosing to bottle the feeling of transcendence — that universal, intangible emotion great art provokes.\nMarc Chaya: Marc Chaya is the co-founder and CEO (President) of Maison Francis Kurkdjian, the Paris fragrance house he launched with perfumer Francis Kurkdjian in 2009. Before co-founding the Maison, Marc built a fast-tracked career at Ernst & Young in Paris, where he made partner in under ten years and later served as Global Telecoms Markets Leader, before leaving to pursue entrepreneurship and a creativity-led approach to luxury perfumery. He is known for advocating for perfumers’ authorship and for expanding fragrance into wider artistic forms, including the Palais de Tokyo retrospective celebrating 30 years of Francis Kurkdjian’s work beyond the bottle.\nVisit Maison Francis Kurkdjian\nKaty Wellesley Wesley: With over 18 years of leadership across galleries, foundations, and startups, Katy has built a career shaped by curiosity and a drive to explore new ideas. She spent a decade at leading commercial galleries—first at Gagosian, then at Pace, where she was Director of Exhibitions in London. She went on to lead the Villa Lena Foundation in Italy as Director, before joining the founding team of ROKBOX, a pioneering environmentally...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/2JTE_96t8Hbe5R3xzuClzLrfaoeuMMr-F1NVjEB9yC8/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8wMjI5/ZGE0Y2Y0MDc4MDRm/MzRlNDVkMzVlZGJh/ZTRlYi5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}