MANIFESTO
The footnote serves to clarify, explain, and elaborate on what is told in the body of the text. It provides the necessary references to understand the story.
The interpretation of the story differs depending on whether or not one takes the time to read the footnotes. By reading them, one enters the universe being narrated, understanding its details. Conversely, one settles for a raw story, however beautiful it may appear, without ever knowing what is said between the lines.
In relationships, what differentiates an acquaintance from a friend, a flirtation from a love story, is the revelation of details, explanations, and secrets. It is about giving or not giving the chance to know more. In books as in life, reading the footnotes pulls us away from superficial knowledge.
A note is also the scent released by a perfume. It evokes an object, a plant, a material, a memory, a place, a person. It translates, in understandable terms, what is contained in the chemical formula of the perfume.
Paje is the phonetic mix of "page," our initials, and the hyphen that binds us: that « et » (French for « and ») which is dear to us. That « et » that makes us a duo: Pierre-Junior Et Alice.
Because our perfumes are the footnotes of our respective stories and the ones we have started writing together.
We see life as a book, as a sequence of pages, as a story told across several chapters that is written as time passes. We can never truly predict what will happen, even when reading the epilogue... Unless we dive into the pages of the book, identify with the characters, immerse ourselves in the descriptions, and rely on the footnotes when the terms are unfamiliar.
Each phase of life corresponds to a chapter in the book. Sometimes it’s a continuation of the previous one, sometimes a complete break from it. Sometimes it’s the unexpected arrival of a character after hundreds of pages. Sometimes it’s the sudden loss of another, even though we have not turned many.
Notes de Bas de Paje is the title of the story we are writing in scents. Ours. Yours. The one made of moments lived together or apart, of people met, of trials and decisions made.
Alice et Pierre-Jr
