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Portrait of perfumer Jean-Charles Sommerard

Born between grandparents who were master coffee roasters and a father who was a distiller, Jean-Charles Sommerard grew up among flowers, alembics, essential oils and perfume.

For this perfumer, bestselling author and teacher at the École Supérieure du Parfum, a fragrance is far more than a delicate olfactory caress. It is almost an act of sorcery—capable of lifting souls and transforming lives! And he delights in this magic every day.

Today, drawing on his rich experience with companies and industries in the world of cosmetics and fragrance, he has chosen to keep only the purest essence: to rise higher, into the realm of pure creation—crafting confidential perfumes infused with meaning and sensation.

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The AKRO perfumes, between elegance and addictions

In this exclusive interview, Olivier Cresp, the master perfumer made famous for Angel, explores contemporary addictions-coffee, chocolate, nicotine-and transforms them into elegant, figurative niche fragrances. With his daughter Anaïs, he creates modern gourmet creations such as Crush and Bake. AKRO embodies an independent, audacious and sophisticated perfumery, where addiction becomes an olfactory experience.

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  • David Chieze, chemist of sillages, poet of raw materials
    David Chieze, chemist of sillages, poet of raw materials
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    David Chieze blends scientific rigor and artistic sensitivity to create narrative, sensorial fragrances. Trained in chemistry and perfumery, he honed his style with Bertrand Duchaufour. Between artistic collaborations and projects for niche houses, he explores the links between nature, history and emotion. A creator we follow closely for his bold, singular vision of perfumery.

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  • Yenchi Lin: Memory has the scent of rainforests
    Yenchi Lin: Memory has the scent of rainforests
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    Yenchi Lin, a Taiwanese perfumer trained in Grasse, composes fragrances as one writes intimate narratives. Nurtured by memories of her childhood in Kaohsiung and her deep bond with nature, she creates modern, sensitive and narrative fragrances. Each fragrance, like The Hometown In Me or Sing at My Funeral, explores memory and emotion with clarity and delicacy. At the crossroads of cultures, her style asserts a singular voice in the new contemporary perfumery.

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  • Lan Xiao, perfumer of twilight: when shadow inspires light
    Lan Xiao, perfumer of twilight: when shadow inspires light
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    Lan Xiao, independent perfumer and founder of Tombstone, explores the beauty of life through the awareness of death. Her provocative and profound olfactory creations blend earthy notes, incense, white flowers and unexpected gourmand accords. Each fragrance is a sensory meditation on finitude, liberated from traditional codes, while its tombstone-shaped bottles celebrate the uniqueness of each existence.

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  • Exceptional natural fragrances: the singular world of Jean Sauvage for Binet-Papillon
    Exceptional natural fragrances: the singular world of Jean Sauvage for Binet-Papillon
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    Jean Sauvage composes his fragrances as one writes fragments. Memories, landscapes, silences: everything becomes material for a sillage. Self-taught and discreet, he creates exclusively for Binet-Papillon, in a sensitive dialogue with Virginie Choné. Together, they shape a perfumery where natural materials dominate and where each name, each accord, seems to emerge from a notebook of poetry. Jean Sauvage doesn't seek effect - he seeks accuracy. His style reveals emotion without ever imposing...

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  • From Dior to Robertet: the journey of Alexis Dadier, creator of emotional fragrances
    From Dior to Robertet: the journey of Alexis Dadier, creator of emotional fragrances
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    He doesn't say much, but his fragrances say it all. Alexis Dadier composes as one dreams, sculpting the silences of nature and buried memories. Fascinated by raw materials, he seeks less to impress than to hit the mark. His creations are inner landscapes, made of contrasts, soft shadows and luminous impulses. From Dior to Robertet, he traces a sensory path inspired by nature and inner resonances.

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  • Jordi Fernandez: his career, his style, his emblematic fragrances
    Jordi Fernandez: his career, his style, his emblematic fragrances
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    Born in Catalonia, Jordi Fernandez discovered the power of scent at an early age through the incense processions and spice markets of his childhood. Self-taught, passionate about the intimacy of rituals and the evocative power of raw materials, he is a discreet and demanding creator, driven by a quest for olfactory perfection and insatiable curiosity. Nicknamed "Master of Oud", his style combines opulence and simplicity, combining noble materials in overdose with innovative molecules;...

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  • Amandine Galliano: perfumer of the right emotion
    Amandine Galliano: perfumer of the right emotion
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    Amandine Galliano is one of those perfumers who composes with precision. Her style seeks neither spectacular effect nor systematic rupture. It is rooted in a deeper quest - that of true emotion, of the accord that touches and stays.Amandine Galliano's style is distinguished by a rare sensory precision and a sincere fidelity to natural materials, without ever falling into ostentation. For her, creation is not an exercise in style, but a gesture of balance.She pays particular attention to the...

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  • Portrait of perfumer Stéphanie Bakouche
    Portrait of perfumer Stéphanie Bakouche
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    Stéphanie Bakouche, independent perfumer and founder of Sensaba, cultivates a creative style that is both refined and narrative, where each raw material finds its place like a word in a poem. For her, perfume is a living art: an intimate dialogue between emotion and memory, crafted with exacting standards and respect for materials. Her creations tell nuanced olfactory stories, designed to touch the soul as much as the senses.

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  • Dalia Izem: a Style of Elegance, Emotion and Originality
    Dalia Izem: a Style of Elegance, Emotion and Originality
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    Dalia Izem speaks of scents in the same way that others speak of memories. Born into a culture where spices, flowers and everyday rituals shape sensory memory, she grew up with the intuition that fragrance can speak the unspeakable. Her olfactory signature is fluid, emotional and full of controlled contrasts. She creates as one writes an intimate page: without seeking to please, but to express a movement, an atmosphere, an inner truth. Dalia Izem doesn't build her fragrances with academic...

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  • Who is Nejla Barbir, the perfumer behind the Galbee fragrances?
    Who is Nejla Barbir, the perfumer behind the Galbee fragrances?
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    Nejla Barbir is a Franco-Tunisian perfumer. With a doctorate in chemistry, her passion for perfumery led her to Flora Synth, where she worked alongside Jean-Louis Sieuzac and Dominique Ropion. She then took part in the creation of Dune for Christian Dior, and went on to collaborate with major houses such as Givenchy and Estée Lauder. Her olfactory style is marked by refinement and balance: while she has a predilection for noble raw materials, such as Egyptian jasmine, Turkish rose, oud,...

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  • Paolo Cerizza: the invisible hand behind Acqua di Portofino's Italian elegance
    Paolo Cerizza: the invisible hand behind Acqua di Portofino's Italian elegance
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    Trained by the greatest, Paolo Cerizza is the heir to an Italian perfume dynasty. His formulas combine freshness and depth, clarity and mystery. Each fragrance recounts a sensation, sometimes fleeting, sometimes haunting, always sincere. He conceives his fragrances as sensitive constructions, rooted in Italian tradition but open to contemporary demands. For Acqua di Portofino, he transforms the sea air, sea spray and light of the Italian Riviera into compositions of rare finesse.

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  • Under the skin, nature: Céline Guivarc'h's olfactory writing for LEHMANN
    Under the skin, nature: Céline Guivarc'h's olfactory writing for LEHMANN
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    Céline Guivarc'h is an independent perfumer trained at ISIPCA, who has worked for some of the world's finest raw materials houses - Robertet and Eurofragance. After fifteen years of behind-the-scenes creation, she chose the great outdoors: a free workshop in Catalonia, and an instinctive writing style, tending towards the skin and accuracy. Guided by emotion rather than trend, Céline composes with a rare fidelity to certain materials - immortelle, mimosa, vanilla, fig, lilac - which she...

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