Daniel Josier, discipline and emotion

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 effect, measured depth and a constant search for emotional accuracy.

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

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.

Captured Light: Sensory Art by Barbara Zoebelein
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Barbara Zoebelein creates rich, harmonious fragrances, blending natural materials and synthetic ingredients with precision and sensitivity. Her bold, poetic style translates emotions through an olfactory narrative inspired by nature, travel and the cultures she has explored. She sees perfume as a sensory language, an art blending rigor and intuition, where each creation is an invitation to live a unique emotional experience.
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When patchouli speaks: workshop confidences with Alexandra Monet
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Alexandra Monet, a perfumer trained at ISIPCA, composes as one tells an intimate story. Inspired as a teenager by Françoise Caron, she transforms emotions, memories and sensations into fragrances that blend gourmand notes, patchouli and sensual woody materials. Between spontaneity and precision, she conceives each fragrance as olfactory writing that comes to life on the skin.
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In the Silent Alchemy of Tristan Rostain
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Tristan Rostain, a perfumer trained at the Institut de Grasse, delicately composes nuanced fragrances, blending silky petals, sweet spices and velvety woods. With SFA Néroli since 2010, he collaborates with a number of fragrance houses, bringing discreet elegance and subtle harmony to their collections. His style, both narrative and precise, transforms each fragrance into an emotionally charged olfactory story.
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Marie Urban Le Febvre: a style between minimalism, memory and matter
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A freelance perfumer trained at ISIPCA, Marie Urban Le Febvre embodies an auteur perfumery, sensitive and demanding. After working for Symrise and Takasago, in 2014 she founded Urban Scents in Berlin, now based in Trieste. Her style is distinguished by a minimalist, sensory writing style, where the quality of the raw materials - often sourced from Grasse - takes precedence over complexity. She collaborates with brands, museums and scientific projects, while passing on her knowledge at ISIPCA...
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Shuai Tan, the invisible imprint
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A renowned dermatologist, aromatherapy teacher at a prestigious institution and committed perfumer, Shuai Tan builds bridges between science and olfactory creation. His approach, nourished by a mastery of natural materials and a cross-disciplinary vision of skincare, gives rise to singular compositions that are at once precise, sensual and unexpected.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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