Portraits of Perfumeurs

Portrait en cours d'écriture

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...

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.

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.

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.

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...