David Chieze, chemist of sillages, poet of raw materials

10/07/2025

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What if a perfume could be a place of passage? A threshold between two worlds - the visible and the sensory, the rational and the intuitive?

Perfumer David Chieze composes as one dreams in a laboratory: with the precision of a chemist and the audacity of an artist. Each fragrance signed by his hand is a journey. We sense prehistoric caves populated by plant shadows, musk architectures irradiated by white light, invisible tensions between leather and breath.

His creations don't try to seduce at first glance. They attract, captivate, question.

A dual approach to materials

Trained in both chemistry and perfumery, David Chieze approaches each creation as a sensitive equation. This dual background enables him to combine scientific rigor with artistic freedom. Where others feel, he measures; where others dream, he formulates. From an early age, he understood that mastering molecules is a language - and that this language, in his hands, can become poetry.

Field school and living transmission

He began his career at L'Artisan Parfumeur, the emblematic house of auteur perfumery. It was here that he honed his first skills, balancing the demands of a house signature with the room for maneuver offered by independent creation. But the decisive step in his training came with Bertrand Duchaufour, a master renowned for his audacious olfactory architectures. For an entire year, David Chieze worked alongside him: an intense immersion in the complexity of accords, sensory storytelling and the need for balance. He develops a personal style nourished by experimentation and mastery, at once lucid and instinctive.

A studio and workshop perfumer

Now based in and around Paris, David Chieze works in several spheres at once. He collaborates with LUZI, an international player, while taking part in the creations of the Mark Buxton Studio. He also lends his eye to confidential brands, including Oddity, known for its radical olfactory proposals.

At the crossroads of the laboratory, the creative studio and the artist's atelier, he creates fragrances like a living work of art, sometimes exhibited in museums, sometimes worn on the skin.

In the latter vein, he created Astrum Nova for the English brand ELECTIMUSS, which he intended as an off-the-beaten-track interpretation of Oud wood.

The image shows an Astrum Nova perfume bottle, set slightly to one side. The bottle is rectangular with rounded edges. Its main color is a deep, rich blue. On the front of the bottle, there's a gold medallion with a circular pattern and inscription, adding a touch of elegance. The cap is also gilded, with a sophisticated design. Light plays on the bottle, creating reflections and shadows that give an impression of depth. Rays of light extend around the bottle, creating a mysterious, captivating atmosphere. The background is blurred and dark, highlighting the bottle and accentuating its allure.

Perfume as living art

David Chieze sees perfume as a medium for dialogue between disciplines. He works at the frontiers of the visible and the invisible, of emotion and matter. His creations often integrate artistic projects in collaboration with visual artists such as Ittah Yoda, for exhibitions such as Lascaux or Arcadia. These experiments, in which fragrance becomes atmospheric sculpture, reveal a clear ambition: to make scent a vector of experience, a memory in motion.

The image shows a man seen from the front, with a calm, confident expression. He is perfumer David Chieze. His medium-length, slightly wavy brown hair falls to his forehead. His face is symmetrical, with well-defined features: prominent cheekbones and a pronounced jawline. He wears a dark shirt buttoned to the neck, adding to his well-groomed appearance. His eyes are clear and piercing, and he looks directly at the lens, giving an impression of commitment. The background is neutral and blurred, highlighting his face and expression.

Inspiration and method

For David Chieze, each fragrance begins with an idea - historical, anthropological, symbolic - and is then embodied in a vocabulary of materials. He draws as much from collective narratives (such as the evocation of the first painted caves) as from contemporary tensions between nature and technology (such as the concept of the Symbiocene). The structure of his creations is often precise, built up in successive strata, but always traversed by a sensory impulse.

Although he rejects fixed signatures, preferring continuous invention, David Chieze has an identifiable style: bold contrasts, abstract sensuality, the search for an almost tactile thrill. His fragrances don't aim to please: they aim to move. He speaks of olfactory architecture, but the heart of his approach is much more organic - close to breath, rhythm and the body.

Why we follow him closely

Because David Chieze belongs to a new generation of perfumers for whom creation is not limited to the beauty of a sillage or the technique of a chord. He composes as one sculpts silence, in a constant tension between structure and emotion. His ability to dialogue with other disciplines - visual arts, history, ecological philosophy - makes each fragrance a sensory and narrative experience. At SCENTISSIME, we're keeping a close eye on his evolution, convinced that he is one of those who are gently redrawing the contours of the contemporary olfactory landscape.

Would you like to feel David Chieze's olfactory signature on your skin? Discover the fragrances he has created on SCENTISSIME. Which one will win your heart?

David Chieze's creations on SCENTISSIME

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