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Amilcar Gomes / Cobey Arner for Christian Dior Parfums

Yeah, no, I love that suit. It’s also incredibly comfortable, that suit. I love a crop jacket. And it’s very rare, because you don’t feel too formal in it and you feel like it’s more active. I really liked it. And the fisherman sandal thing was very…. I was a little trepidatious, but I’m glad we did it.

What do you feel is your approach to getting dressed now?

It’s that weird thing, because I still have this sort of desperate urge to be on trend, and sometimes you just think, You know what? Maybe the kids can do that. It’s weird, because I’ll go to a fitting, and I like really flamboyant dressing in a fitting, and then I’ll go on the street and I just spend my entire life trying to be the most inconspicuous person in the world, just the most boring. I dress so boringly, but the desire to be flamboyant gets stronger and stronger and stronger inside me.

It’s what’s on the inside that counts. You’re a flamboyant dresser on the inside.

If people only knew.

Tell me a little bit about your partnership with Dior Homme. I know earlier you said it has been for half your life.

Pretty much, I mean, give or take. It has been pretty much one of my longest professional relationships ever. I think it’s coming up to 14 years.

How was shooting with Dior today?

It’s always very nice. I always love these people. Hopefully one day I’ll be able to talk about scent in a more sophisticated way. Maybe after 16 years, I might know what iris is. No, I shouldn’t say that. It’s always so nice. I always really enjoy doing it.

And now there’s the Dior Homme Intense fragrance—tell me a little bit about that.

It’s weird, I thought I knew what the smell of iris was, but when it’s combined with vanilla in the parfum, it smells totally different. It’s fascinating. I think I have an exceptionally unsophisticated nose, but I do like the smell of it. [Laughs] You’re like, “Describe it,” and I’m like, “It’s nice. It’s really, really nice.”

Have you ever made the faux pas of wearing too much cologne to an event? And what was the event, if you have?

I think the first time I ever did interviews for Dior Homme, during the interviews, I sprayed such a huge spray into my mouth.

On purpose?

I thought it was facing the other direction. And that was probably one of the more embarrassing ones I’ve ever done. But…I think people thought I was joking when I first was interviewed. I do like not spraying it directly on yourself, I like spraying it in a little cloud in front of you walking through it. And you never really get too overpowering a scent.

I think that something has changed. My body chemistry has changed. It’s very strange. But I 100% used to smell exactly like a crayon.

OK.

And it’s weird, you become less scented as you get older, I think. I don’t really notice my smell anymore. I used to have a very particular, pronounced smell.

A crayon-y one?

Yeah, a crayon-y one. Before that, it was quite a kind of vicious, vicious scent. And then something, I think, when it became crayon-y, it was like something died. I guess the seven-year cycle…. Maybe I was smelling of crayons when one self died, and when a new self was born, it was less scented.

Tell me about this “new self” that was born.

I don’t smell anything now. It’s so weird. I have to get a lot to smell anything at all. Which I don’t understand. You can be going to the gym and stuff, I’m like, Okay, I don’t smell anymore.

I wonder if you had COVID at some point and lost your sense of smell….

[Laughs] Yeah, it’s like, you just can’t even smell. It’s just blank! I actually did lose my sense of smell for a bit and it took me months to realize that I’d lost it. I have it back now…I think.

Going back to your movies coming out next year, is there anything you can tease about The Odyssey or Dune?

Definitely not The Odyssey, because I think you get assassinated if you talk about it. But from what I experienced of it, it’s just unbelievable. It was an unbelievable experience. I think one thing I can say: I saw a sheep, and…. Actually, I can’t even say that. I saw a sheep! That’s the only thing I can reveal.

And Dune…. You’ll never experience these things in any other profession. I mean, literally, I was experiencing things which hardly anybody in history has or will ever experience and it’s just absolutely incredible.