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Gowé, the scent of Africa
Gowé, a very popular plant in West Africa where it is valued for its healing properties as well as being burned like incense, has now joined the perfumer’s palette.
Gowé, the scent of Africa
Gowé, a very popular plant in West Africa where it is valued for its healing properties as well as being burned like incense, has now joined the perfumer’s palette.
DSM-Firmenich perfumery school: “As well as the technical training, students learn what a perfumer’s life is really like.”
For nearly 50 years, the house has been training its perfumers internally. What qualities are sought in candidates? What does a student’s daily life look like? Olivier Gurtler, Vice President of Creative Excellence at DSM-Firmenich, and Martin Koh, Master Perfumer and head of the school, respond.
Amanda Carr (Barnes Fragrance Fair): “We try to make the discovery journey to purchase as memorable and exciting as the fragrance itself”
The Barnes Fragrance Fair is an event held in the inner suburbs of London, dedicated to niche and artisanal perfumery. A far cry from major events such as Paris Perfume Week or Esxence, this annual gathering—which is free to attend—is aimed entirely at the general public. A lively village fair awaits you on 16 May in Barnes.
Smell Talks : The Chinese Olfactory Culture
Meng Gu, fine fragrance perfumer at Robertet and Anne-Sophie Gauvin, partner at KeYi explore age-old traditions, perfume tastes and the new expectations of a market in full transformation.
Frankincense, the white gold
Over a few square kilometers in the south of the Sultanate of Oman, thousands of frankincense trees grow on the rocky ground of Wadi Dawkah, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Maurice Roucel and Francis Kurkdjian get together to talk about the Héritage(s) collection
To mark Maurice Roucel’s contribution to the Héritage(s) collection, Symrise and the Per Fumum endowment fund organized a very special get-together between the perfumer, filmmaker David Richard, and Francis Kurkdjian.
A porcelain perfume
DSM-Firmenich continues to deepen the fruitful dialogue between art and fragrance since it created an olfactory signature for the musée national de la Marine in 2023.
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Smell Talks : The Chinese Olfactory Culture
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