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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.

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...

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.

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;...

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...

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.

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...

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,...

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.

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...

Looking for the perfect gift for your other half? Why not opt for a niche fragrance that will awaken their senses? Whether the person you have in mind is romantic, daring, mysterious or gourmand, there's a fragrance made just for them.  Here's our selection of sensual niche fragrances for Valentine's Day, sure to make hearts and senses tumble.

Hélène Prévot has worked as a perfumer for a number of fragrance houses for many years, and is a passionate perfume designer. Her desire for independence and direct exchanges with customers led her to found her own company in 2014. HF Perfumes was born. Having become a freelance perfume designer for numerous fragrance brands and often under confidentiality contracts, her desire to be able to reveal her expertise to the public never ceased to grow.  After several years of reflection and hard...