There happens to be a lot of pretty girls who fit the bill of dumb blonde, but there are a lot of them too who break the stereotype – women who are physically attractive at the same time Einsteins on the catwalk, multi-talented, can carry conversations, and amazing multitaskers.
These traits probably set Solenn Heussaff from a bevy of good-looking celebrities we see on television and the big screen. For one, the 30-year-old French Filipino is a singer, writer, actress and painter. And she’s a restaurateur, too.
“But I don’t want to be known for the things I do. I’m not really ‘actress or a singer,’ I don’t want any label to define me as a person,” Solenn told The Standard in a previous interview.
True enough, Solenn surprises people for wearing many hats yet still manages to remain outstanding in everything she does. In fact, next month she is going to stage a one-man exhibit displaying some of her art works. It’s a sort of a culminating event where people will see her dedication to painting, a passion she’s inclined to since the age of three.
“If you get any magazine from 2010, you’d read in my interviews that I’m going to stage an exhibit so I’m glad it’s finally happening next month,” she shared when we met with her for an interview last week.
She also told us her book, which she co-wrote with her best friend Georgina Wilson, would soon have a sequel due to the positive feedback they have been receiving from fans. The book has sold over 75,000 copies and has landed on the bestsellers list for months.
Additionally, she’s going to star in another comedy with AiAi delas Alas, a film to be produced by Regal Entertainment. It’s going to be her third big screen project this year after the bike movie Lakbay2Love (with Dennis Trillo) and Love is Blind (with Kiray Celis and Derek Ramsay).
But the real highlight of our tête-à-tête with Solenn is her “passion project,” her first ever scent line called Scents of Solenn (SOS).
The French in her has always kept Solenn fascinated with fragrances and this made for a perfect collaboration with no less than one of the leading perfume and scent experts in France, Bel Perfumes. To date, Bel Perfumes has collaborated with top celebrities including Thai star Mario Maurer and Indonesian diva Anggun, to name a few.
The collaboration with Solenn marks Bel Perfume’s first foray into the Philippine market – and it seems they were only too happy to have the actress as their first Filipino celebrity partner.
Conceptualized by Solenn personally, SOS fragrances naturally embody her personal style. It has three variations, which she aptly called Sunrise, Sunshine, and Sunset to suggest the best time of the day to wear the perfumes.
“I believe the scents embody who I am as a person. It’s your way of identifying yourself in a crowd, your scent makes you distinct. And I’m the type of person who identifies a person by the way he or she smells,” she explained.
It’s obvious that there’s a lot of things, good things, happening in her career and personal life. She has a successful TV and movie career and she’s “really” tying the knot this year. So, what’s next for Solenn?
“I don’t know. I’m turning 31 this year, I always go with the flow, I do make plans but I’m not the type of person who sticks to my plan. That’s why I don’t like to talk things in advance because they don’t usually happen the way we planned it,” she concluded.