Trained in chemistry and introduced to the profession by Pierre Bourdon, Jean-Christophe Hérault built his approach to perfumery at the crossroads of science and the arts. Made aware from an early age of literature, particularly Proust and the evocative power of olfactory memory, he draws his inspiration from memories, encounters, and personal experiences. A perfumer at IFF, where he now holds creative leadership roles, he stands out for his versatility, his taste for contrasts, and a free...

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...

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...

Trained in Versailles and then in Grasse, Jean-Michel Duriez practiced his art at Jean Patou and Rochas before founding his own house. His olfactory signature is rooted in the art of translating emotions and memories into fragrances, combining technical precision, sensitivity, and a search for balance. Attentive to the nuances of raw materials and their evocative power, he conceives each perfume as a sensory experience capable of bringing back a presence, a place, or a forgotten moment. A...

Arturetto Landi is Italian, trained as a chemist, and became a perfumer by chance. A temporary job at a fragrance company in England changed his path. After growing up on the Italian Riviera with a father who was a chef, he trained at H&R in Holzminden, then worked in New York, Paris, Tokyo, Hamburg, Vienna, and Dubai. The Middle East introduced him to agarwood, which became the backbone of his work. His style is expansive, dense, and theatrical. He likes warm, woody, leathery oud,...

Simone Lo Bue is an Italian creative perfumer, Deputy R&D Director at Moellhausen since 2022. Trained in chemistry and inspired by music, theater, and the arts, he designs fragrances as sensory narratives, where each raw material contributes to an emotion. After international experience in cosmetics and perfumery, he established his signature in niche perfumery. His motto, “beautifying the world through fragrance,” sums up an expressive, sensitive, and deeply narrative approach to creation.

Sidonie Grandperret is a French perfumer whose career combines scientific rigor, expertise in raw materials, and artistic sensitivity. Trained in chemistry and then in flavors and perfumery, she began her career in Grasse at Haarmann & Reimer, under the supervision of Jean-Claude Ellena, before working in quality control and then in creation. Today a Senior Perfumer at LUZI, she develops a precise and expressive olfactory signature, attentive to the personality of materials and their...

Alexandre Makhloufi is a self-taught perfumer based in Paris. After an initial career in culture and audiovisual media, he devoted himself entirely to olfactory creation. His studio, first named Sacré Français, became Dissident Parfums in April 2026. He created three perfumes: Sleep No More in 2024, Coeur Fauve in 2025, and Umbra Veris in 2026. Each formula is born from a story to be told and plays on contrasts between shadow and light, softness and tension, memory and imagination. His...

At Ramon Molvizar, creation carries a collective dimension. The perfumes are developed by its creative team, in a collective approach where each composition is born from a dialogue between materials, imagination, and expertise. The house thus chooses to prioritize its artistic signature rather than highlight the name of an individual perfumer. A vision that has accompanied, since its beginnings, the idea of perfume as a true form of artistic expression.

Grandson of Jean-Paul Guerlain, Paul Guerlain discovered the ylang-ylang, vanilla, and spice plantations of Mayotte at the age of five. At fifteen, he began composing fragrances in the family laboratory, before training at ISIPCA and then at IFF under Anne Flipo. Heir to a name steeped in history, he has built his own language. His writing seeks a dialogue between materials, their attractions and their oppositions. Sensitive and precise, he draws on memories, travels, and everyday gestures to...

Born in Strasbourg and trained as a chemist, Antoine Lie learned perfumery in Grasse under Jean Guichard. After twenty-seven years within major fragrance houses, he chose independence and founded his ALOE studio in Paris. His style, direct and willingly provocative, explores the less conventional facets of olfaction: metal, leather, smoke, animalic or mineral notes. He is drawn to expressive materials, bold contrasts, and strong creative choices that provoke a reaction. Behind this radicality...

Jean-Claude Ellena prefers ellipsis to emphasis. Born in Grasse into a family of perfumers, he joined Antoine Chiris at the age of sixteen, where he learned about raw materials through contact with the old masters. His olfactory style seeks clarity, movement, and the right emotion. Each formula seems stripped of the superfluous in order to let its central idea breathe. Former exclusive perfumer for Hermès, he approaches his craft with the precision of an artisan and the sensitivity of a...