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Arturetto Landi, operas for the nose

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, combined with resins, ambers, flowers, and spices. Contrasts prevail over restraint.

In 2014, he launched his own house. His philosophy can be summed up in five words: modesty, patience, imagination, passion, discernment.

Simone Lo Bue, Italian perfumer: from LVMH to niche perfumery

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.

Clément Gavarry, the heir who chose his heritage

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Clément Gavarry was born in Paris in 1977, the heir to a four-generation family line from Grasse. At first, as a teenager, he refused to take up the tradition, as sailing attracted him more than laboratories. An internship in New York in 1998 changed his course. He discovered the profession outside the family sphere and realized that this was what attracted him. Trained at ISIPCA and then IFF, he graduated in 2004 and moved to Manhattan. Senior perfumer at Dsm-Firmenich since 2024, he has...

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Sébastien Cresp: the art of not being your father

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Sébastien Cresp, son of master perfumer Olivier Cresp, trained at the Grasse Institute of Perfumery after an initial course in cooking. Senior perfumer at Atelier Fragranze Milano, he draws inspiration from his Grasse roots and his gastronomic sensibility. His olfactory style combines modern audacity with technical rigor. An adept of innovative perfumery, he creates striking creations (Margiela, Kayali) that shake up codes. P or him, each fragrance must arouse strong emotion through original,...

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Between Constantinople and New York: the sensory paths of Ilias Ermenidis

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Born in Constantinople, Ilias Ermenidis developed a passion for perfumes at a young age while doing summer internships at his father's flavor factory in Istanbul. This vocation led him to study perfumery in Paris, where he made history at Firmenich by becoming the first apprentice perfumer ever to be recruited there. His professional career reflects his international outlook, having lived in Paris, Geneva, and New York. Deeply influenced by art and opera, his creative process favors abstract...

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Pierre Négrin: Earth, Light and Essence

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Pierre Negrin has deep roots in perfumery: born in Grasse, his two grandfathers were traders in plants and perfume products. Although he initially turned to photography and studied physics and chemistry, an internship with a friend who was a perfumer sparked his creative side. He realized that he could express himself just as intensely through scents as he could through light. For him, creating a fragrance is a form of alchemy where the value of a work does not depend on the rarity of its...

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Phillipine Courtière, perfumer between two worlds

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A sophisticated Parisian and lawyer by training, Philippine Courtière made a radical career change when she decided to become a perfume creator. During this transition, she benefited from the guidance of renowned masters such as Francis Kurkdjian, Michel Almairac, and Jacques Cavallier. Her career took her from Paris to Geneva, then to New York, a city whose energy and bold fragrances have left their mark on her creative signature. Now dividing her time between Paris and Dubai, she draws on...

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Alberto Morillas: Fifty years of olfactory insubordination

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Alberto Morillas is a major figure in perfumery, being the first perfumer ever to receive the prestigious Fragrance Foundation Award of Excellence. With his encyclopedic knowledge of the history of perfumes, he stands out for his ability to blend innovative natural techniques with revolutionary synthetic molecules, which he sometimes helps to create himself. His inspiration comes from direct contact with his ingredients. His creative mind is perpetually alert and focused on the future, to the...

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Between colors and scents: the sensitive world of Marie Salamagne

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Marie Salamagne composes from precise memories, often predating words. The smells of raw materials, enclosed spaces and everyday gestures shaped her imagination from an early age. This sensory memory still guides her work. She creates as she would paint, in successive strokes, seeking color balance and the right tension between clarity and depth. Her style favors emotional legibility, with clean structures and sensuality. She favors controlled contrasts, expressive materials and...

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Daniel Josier, discipline and emotion

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Trained in chemistry before turning to perfumery in Paris, Daniel Josier built up his expertise with major international houses before opting for independence. His career path has given him a rigorous mastery of structures and materials, which he puts to good use in his personal, masterful writing. His work focuses on balance, legibility and coherent formulas. He composes from lived experience and precise sensations, translated with discipline. His style is distinguished by elegance without...

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When matter finds its own space: Luca Maffei's signature style

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Luca Maffei grew up between Italy and the raw materials that surrounded his family's workshop. Trained in Grasse and then back in Milan, he refined a style based on balance, controlled contrasts and the precision of noble materials. Co-founder of Atelier Fragranze Milano, he creates fragrances inspired by memories, Italian light and artisanal gestures. His work explores olfactory trajectories where each note finds its rightful place.

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Maya Njie, perfumer of time and memories

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As a self-taught perfumer, Maya’s practice was developed through experimentation; the blending of raw materials with a variety of essential oils, aroma compounds and resins; nature and science combining in autobiographical fragrances. Maya’s olfactory identity draws inspiration from her upbringing, as well as an archive of intimate family photographs from the 1960s; the small Swedish summer house surrounded by mercurial forests, the visits to her grandparents’ sparsely furnished flat on...

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Frida Michailidou, Scientist and Perfumer

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Dr Frida Michailidou is an award-winning scientist specialising in fragrances and a creative perfumer. Born and raised in Greece, she was fascinated from an early age by the scents of Greece's rich botanical heritage, which inspired her to embark on a career in sustainable chemistry and perfumery. She led a pioneering scientific expedition to Mount Olympus and was the first to decode the scents of its rare flora using advanced, non-destructive technology. Recognised as an ‘MIT Innovator Under...

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Riccardo Halac-Ruggeroni: The Perfumer who Reinvents the Art of Interior Fragrance

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Some destinies are not discovered, but revealed. Riccardo Halac-Ruggeroni belongs to this rare category. Founder of RHR Luxury, this self-taught perfumer has transformed a collection of olfactory souvenirs into a house of fragrances that defies the conventions of contemporary luxury.

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