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Thomas Fontaine, creating today, bringing yesterday back to life

Independent perfumer and president of the Osmothèque in Versailles, Thomas Fontaine cultivates a fascinating relationship with olfactory memory.

Trained at ISIPCA and having worked at Procter & Gamble, Charabot, and MANE, he has built a career that has taken him from major international houses to the historic signatures of French perfumery.

Founder of Pallida, he creates fragrances for Lubin, Jean Patou, Jean-Charles Brosseau, and Le Galion, with particular attention paid to the identity of the houses and their heritage.

At the head of the Osmothèque since 2020, he also works to preserve and revive forgotten perfumes, embodying a vision of perfumery in which each fragrance also carries the memory of its era.

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Rodrigo Flores-Roux, a botanist at heart, a perfumer by vocation

From the vibrant citrus of Neroli Portofino to the smoky depths of Ébène Fumé, Rodrigo Flores-Roux cultivates a generous, erudite, and deeply personal approach to perfumery.

Born in Mexico City and trained in Versailles, this Givaudan perfumer draws on botany, art history, and the memory of his native country to give scents a cultural and emotional dimension.

For him, Mexico is not a backdrop one might invoke to lend local color to a composition. It belongs to his intimate vocabulary, his memories, and his way of looking at the world.

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Author: Hervé Mathieu-Chaty

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