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Naoko Kusunoki’s Herbert responds to Mitsouko by Guerlain, a fragrance named after a character in a novel, a married Japanese woman who had a secret relationship with a friend of her husband by the name of Herbert. The artist wanted to give Mitsouko and Herbert, who did not have a happy ending, a perfume as an everlasting tribute, so she created Herbert as her sensory response to Mitsouko.
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Herbert was part of the exhibition Volatile Derivatives
Naoko Kusunoki’s Herbert responds to Mitsouko by Guerlain, a fragrance named after a character in a novel, a married Japanese woman who had a secret relationship with a friend of her husband by the name of Herbert. The artist wanted to give Mitsouko and Herbert, who did not have a happy ending, a perfume as an everlasting tribute, so she created Herbert as her sensory response to Mitsouko.
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Herbert was part of the exhibition Volatile Derivatives