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Alexandre Makhloufi est un parfumeur autodidacte installé à Paris. Après une première carrière dans la culture et l'audiovisuel, il se consacre entièrement à la création olfactive. Son studio, d'abord nommé Sacré Français, devient Dissident Parfums en avril 2026. Il signe trois parfums : Sleep No More en 2024, Coeur Fauve en 2025 et Umbra Veris en 2026. Chaque formule naît d'une histoire à raconter et joue sur les contrastes entre ombre et lumière, douceur et tension, mémoire et imaginaire....

At Ramon Molvizar, creation carries a collective dimension. The perfumes are developed by its creative team, in a collective approach where each composition is born from a dialogue between materials, imagination, and expertise. The house thus chooses to prioritize its artistic signature rather than highlight the name of an individual perfumer. A vision that has accompanied, since its beginnings, the idea of perfume as a true form of artistic expression.

Born into a family connected to the perfume industry of Grasse, Vincent Ricord grew up in Nice surrounded by stories of raw materials and travel. Dyslexic, he found at a very young age in the laboratory a logic that suited him: smelling, combining, trying, and starting over. A senior perfumer at TechnicoFlor, he creates from an image or an emotion, much like a musician searching for the riff that can carry a song. A guitarist, bassist, and painter, he feeds his formulas with colors, rhythms,...

Marine Ipert grew up in the south of France, between sea and mountains, to the rhythm of lavender, mimosa, jasmine, and orange blossom blooms. A mother passionate about perfumes, a father attentive to the family garden, and, at the age of thirteen, a decisive encounter with a perfumer from Grasse awakened her vocation. After studying chemistry and at ISIPCA, she trained at IFF and then at the Symrise school, before joining Takasago in 2023. A draughtswoman since childhood, she conceives...

Maxence Moutte is a French perfumer, a graduate of ISIPCA and Senior Perfumer at Givaudan. Since the revival of Le Jardin Retrouvé, he has continued the work of its founder Yuri Gutsatz by adapting his historic formulas to current requirements while preserving their identity. He has also created new fragrances, including Mousse Arashiyama, Osmanthe Liu Yuan, Violette Kew and Immortelle Babylone. His olfactory style favors balance, emotion, and inspiring landscapes, in keeping with a vision in...

Yuri Gutsatz (1914-2005) left his mark on the history of perfumery by championing a simple idea: the perfumer is an author. Born in Saint Petersburg and later settled in Paris, he worked for Roure before collaborating with several major houses. In 1975, he founded Le Jardin Retrouvé, often regarded as one of the first niche perfume houses created by an independent perfumer. There, he championed free creation, guided by emotion rather than marketing. As co-founder of the Osmothèque in 1990, he...

Urs Castelletti creates fragrances that reflect his personality: precise, balanced, and deeply harmonious. A perfumer at LUZI since the late 1980s, he favors an olfactory style in which each ingredient naturally finds its place. His creations eschew spectacular effects in favor of building a lasting emotional impact, carried by woody, amber, oriental, or floral accords of great fluidity. His career path—which began in the laboratory before he became a perfumer—has given him a technical...

Born in 1985 in the province of Milan, Claudio Zucca grew up in a home where scents held a special place, thanks to his mother’s love for the world of fragrances. This informal education shaped an olfactory sensibility that his career as an architect would only refine, without ever extinguishing it. It was during a personally challenging period that he shifted from architecture to fragrance creation, through a self-taught process marked by late-night experiments, the study of raw materials,...

An art journalist turned self-taught perfumer, Miguel Matos is one of the most distinctive figures in European niche perfumery. As editor of Fragrantica since 2013, he brings the analytical rigor of a critic to his compositions: his fragrances do not seek immediate beauty, but rather fertile imperfection, sharp edges, and the imbalance that captures the attention. A two-time winner of the Art and Olfaction Awards—for “Young Hearts” in 2020 and “Tabacco Smeraldo” in 2023—he creates...

Eve Miralles came to perfumery through rigor. Through a desire to understand what molecules do to emotion. And with a particular curiosity, typical of scientific minds, which means never being satisfied with a superficial answer. Now Senior Perfumer at Cosmo International Fragrances in Barcelona, Eve Miralles is one of those designers who work in the shadows of the big brands, far from the spotlight of mainstream perfumery, but who imagine fragrances that travel on the skin of thousands of...

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...

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,...