The link between Queen of Crime Agatha Christie and the world of beauty seems tenuous at first, but if you look at her beginnings as a novelist, it starts making sense. In 1966, she told the New York Times: "I got my plots in the tub, (…) just sitting there thinking, undisturbed, and lining the rim with apple cores." Hot baths did indeed bring her inspiration, the fruit of her imagination then scribbled in notebooks she scrupulously left in her bathroom and every room of her home, Greenway House, in Devon. The result? 66 crime novels, of which more than two billion copies were sold worldwide.

The Venus de Milo, an Eau Triple by Officine Universelle Buly was inspired by one of the Louvre’s most famous pieces. She came to be as the result of an extraordinary challenge. For the first time in the history of the world’s largest museum and that of perfume, Buly invited eight illustrious “noses” to design an exceptional collection. Everyone was given the same, thrilling challenge: to envision and create the scent of a universal masterpiece of painting or sculpture, and to bring that alive in a perfume.