30.09.2025

Journal Talks - The Talisman Interviews

Louise Skadhauge is a half-French, half-Danish photographer and creative working between Paris, Marseille, and Copenhagen. She collaborates with beauty, wellness, fashion, and lifestyle brands, blending her Scandinavian roots with French sensibility in a balance of tactile imagery, impulsiveness, and joie de vivre.

Her signature lies in natural light, a tool she uses to capture authenticity, intimacy, and atmosphere. Each image becomes a study of shadow and illumination, simplicity and sensuality, translating design and wellness into a visual language that feels both real and poetic.

In this conversation of Journal Talks, Louise Skadhauge inhabits the archetype of the nymph/the enchantress. With natural light as her medium, she shares how scent, like photography, lingers as an invisible imprint, intimate, transformative, and deeply personal.

Nymf / The Enchantress

1. What role does fragrance play in your personal style? Do you see it as an accessory, a signature, or something more invisible?

I love wearing discreet, natural scents, almost as if they were meant only for my close circle and myself. Fragrance is never just a surface detail. It’s a quiet but powerful part of how we carry ourselves, often the most memorable, lingering impression we leave behind.

2. Many describe scent as the most intimate form of beauty. How do you feel fragrance shapes the way we present ourselves to the world?

Fragrance works almost like an invisible layer of clothing, it completes the way we show up, but in a subtler, more intimate way. Unlike an outfit or accessory, fragrance isn’t immediately visible, but it lingers in memory, shaping how others experience us long after we’ve left the room.

3. The Talisman collection is inspired by archetypes: Nomad, Nymf, and Riddargatan. You were chosen as the Nymf. What does the archetype of “Nymf” awaken in you?

Nymf awakens ideas of femininity, nature, spirituality, beauty, confidence, adventure, and power.

4. Nymf is fluid and untouchable, like mist or water. Do you connect fragrance more to clarity or to ambiguity and the unseen?

I’d say clarity. To me, choosing and wearing a fragrance is about making a clear statement that reflects who I am or the mood I’m in.

5. Enchantment carries both light and shadow. How do you relate to that duality in your own work or life?

As a natural light photographer, my work is all about studying light, which has always drawn me in. I love observing how light and shadow dance together, and I’m constantly in awe of how much the atmosphere and emotions of a photograph can shift depending on the time of day it is captured.

6. Do you believe in the idea of a “signature scent,” or do you prefer to change fragrance the way you might change an outfit?

When I find a scent I truly love, I tend to stay loyal to it for a longer period of time. But I also like to alternate between two or three natural scents depending on my mood.

7. If you had to describe your ideal fragrance in three words or three textures, what would they be?

Woody, earthy, with a zest of florals.

Find out more about Louise here.