In the Chinese culture, the serpent represents transformation and intelligence, patience, wisdom and mystery. The number 8 suggests the bucket of infinity. A leap into infinity. What could be more inspiring than working with these 2 values added to a great country of thousands years old, with its many specific features and distinctive characteristics.

With his 8, the designer sets off into a new land of symbols, imagination and daring.

“This creation, this 'ruby and gold' snake, gives me a new platform, the chance to express my attraction for adventure, the kind that leads to the Far East, to an ancestral China with stamped formulas. This perfume is a controlled extravagance, it's theatrical.

I wanted a fragrance with strong, powerful accents, but also one that was slow and traditional. I embarked on a kind of personification, slipping into many skins, those of a warrior, a wise man, a courtesan, like a studio actor in a film, as if caught up in using scents that seemed stereotyped. This new snake is a kind of joyful introspection, a carnival, an anthology of preconceived ideas that had to be married without forcing them.

This 8 represents a new kind of freedom, a sort of transfer of love. It is a vow, a promise kept, an act of extreme kindness.” — Stéphane Humbert Lucas