The France 24 website reports today (April 1, 2012) that a Paris court will decide this Thursday (April 5) whether Jean-Paul Guerlain -- for decades the "nose" behind the world-famous perfume brand -- was being racist when he said that he "worked like a negro."
Asked in an October 2010 television interview about how he had created the Samsara scent, Guerlain replied using a racial slur -- the French term "negre" -- and implied that black people are lazy.
The 75-year-old heir to one of the world's oldest perfume houses went on trial in February on charges of making "racist insults" during the interview on French public television.
He faces up to six months in prison and a 22,500 euro ($30,000) fine if the court finds him guilty when it delivers its verdict on April 5.
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