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He grew up in a family of perfumers, surrounded by his grandfather’s scent strips and the ylang-ylang plantations of Mayotte, where, at the age of five, he had his very first olfactory memory.

From this heritage, Paul Guerlain has retained a taste for observing rather than reproducing. Trained by Anne Flipo, he now composes like an explorer: patiently bringing raw materials into dialogue, setting them against one another and letting each reveal the other.

An ever-curious, passionate style with no fixed signature, nourished by nature, art and encounters.