Perfumer Celine Barel learned about her latest job with Aesop after being sent a mysterious brief. In it were a set of abstract cultural artefacts: a photograph of the night sky, various images of the colour amber, a quote by Nietzsche, and a poem by Mayuzumi Madoka titled ‘Shooting Star’. Barel, who has worked with the brand for over a decade, spent time mulling over its fragments. The challenge was cryptic, but clear: could she bottle the smell of a shootinghellip;read more raquo;