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Russia Today
07-04-2025
- Politics
- Russia Today
Macron overloads himself with perfume
Emmanuel Macron has been spraying himself with copious amounts of luxury cologne, according to excerpts from a new book about the French president cited in the media. In his book titled The Tragedy of the Élysée: Inside the Hell of Macron's Five-Year Terms, Le Parisien journalist Olivier Beaumont claims that the president uses 'industrial' amounts of fragrance on a daily basis. Macron has a special affinity for Dior Eau Sauvage, and 'a bottle [is] always to hand, particularly in one of the drawers of his desk,' the book states. 'Less-accustomed visitors may find themselves overcome by the floral and musky scent, as refined as it is powerful. It is a sign of one thing: that the president is in the building,' Beaumont writes, as quoted by The Telegraph. 'Just as Louis XIV made his perfumes an attribute of power when he paraded through the galleries of Versailles, Emmanuel Macron uses his as an element of his authority at the Élysée,' the book says. Read more Macron's Napoleon cosplay could come at a grave cost Beaumont quotes one of Macron's former aides as saying, 'When Emmanuel Macron enters the room, you can feel it.' The aide compares the president's use of perfume to 'marking his territory.' 'It's not subtle, but it's fast. It means: watch out, here I come!' the aide is quoted as saying. 'So much so that several staff members ended up joking about an expression they heard from one wing to the other: 'It smells like the president.'' The book also reportedly quotes Bruno Roger-Petit, Macron's former spokesman, as saying, 'You only have to be in the Vestibule d'honneur [the main entrance to the Élysée Palace] to know whether he has been there recently or not.' The Dior brand is owned by Bernard Arnault, Europe's richest man, who is reportedly close to the president. Last year, Macron awarded the billionaire the country's highest honor, the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor. Macron was first elected in 2017 and re-elected in 2022. His PR campaign has often emphasized his youthful appearance and athleticism. He posed with boxing gloves during campaign events and, in 2024, his office released photos of the president hitting a punching bag.
The Independent
04-04-2025
- Politics
- The Independent
Macron's ‘industrial levels' of fragrance overpowering aides in Elysée Palace, book claims
For Emmanuel Macron, making his presence known in a room full of powerful people has always appeared to come naturally. But according to a new book, the French president may be getting some help. Mr Macron, 47, wears 'industrial amounts' of Dior Eau Sauvage, journalist Olivier Beaumont claims, such that his aides in the Elysée Palace can sense him approaching before he even enters the room. Described as a deliberate 'attribute of power', the French president deploys the scent 'at all hours of the day', always ensuring to have a bottle to hand, 'particularly in one of the drawers of his desk'. According to extracts from The Tragedy of the Elysée, the book claims that 'less-accustomed visitors may find themselves overcome by the floral and musky scent, as refined as it is powerful'. A whiff of the £104 perfume is a sign of one thing, Mr Beaumont writes: 'That the president is in the building.' The book continues: 'Just as Louis XIV made his perfumes an attribute of power when he paraded through the galleries of Versailles, Emmanuel Macron uses his as an element of his authority at the Elysée.' Mr Macron uses the fragrance as a way 'almost of marking his territory', one aide says, adding that you can 'feel it' when the president enters the room. 'It's not subtle, but it's fast. It means: 'watch out, here I come!',' a former aide says. 'You only have to be in the Vestibule d'honneur to know whether he has been there recently or not.' Even Brigitte Macron, the president's 71-year-old wife with whom he has lived for 20 years, is 'still surprised by [his fragrance] and lets out a loud 'ohhh' when asked about her husband's smell', the bookclaims. But when her husband is travelling the world for crunch meetings with world leaders, the temptation for Ms Macron is too great, the book claims. '[The smell] does not prevent her, when he sometimes flies abroad for a few days, from allowing herself a little coquetry: spraying herself lightly with her husband's perfume... to have the feeling that her man is not very far away,' the book claims. Sauvage, the world's best selling male fragrance – which Johnny Depp has been the face of since 2015 – is made by Dior, part of the LVMH empire owned by Bernard Arnault, Europe's richest person. According to the book, Mr Macron hands out pairs of sunglasses 'each uglier than the last' to his guests when the sun is out on the palace gardens. He has a case 'containing about 20 pairs of second-hand glasses, of all shapes, not really fashionable, some with crooked arms, others with red rims, 'even a little ridiculous', from which you have to choose in order to be allowed to stay'. One French minister says: 'Clearly, it's not meant to make us look good. I even wonder if, deep down, he doesn't get a kick out of seeing us with these things. We look so stupid. 'Once you've borrowed one of these pairs, you don't want to forget to bring your own.'
