Author Tilar Mazzeo spent three months wine-tasting every day for a book on Napa. By the end, her nose was so trained that a friend's collection of vintage perfumes sent her in an entirely new direction.
That's how The Secret of Chanel No. 5 began—following a scent, literally.
Both parts of my interview with Tilar are in le Bulletin 16.17 this week. Have you ever followed a completely unexpected thread and ended up somewhere you couldn't have planned?