Interviews
Yves Cassar: “If vetiver were a character, it would be Indiana Jones”
Yves Cassar has been a perfumer for IFF since 1998. He has created many successes, alone or with a team. We asked him about vetiver.
Perfumers
Interviews
Julie Massé: “Vanilla creates an incomparable sillage, a signature and volume”
Julie Massé is a perfumer at Mane since 2010. We asked her about vanilla.
Interviews
Aurélien Guichard: “Biomuguet and Biocyclamol offer a form of abstraction that I really appreciate”
Aurélien Guichard, whose hometown is Grasse, joined Takasago in 2018, after roles as a perfumer with Givaudan and Firmenich. He is the nose behind Narciso for Narciso Rodriguez, Gucci Guilty, and Encens suave and Radical Rose for his own brand, Matière première.
Perfume
Perfumers’ sources of inspiration
Mane does everything possible to continually feed the creativity of its Parisian perfumery team, from introducing new ingredients to encouraging collaboration with other disciplines.
"All-inclusive": Perfumery confronts inequalities
Shabnam Tavakol: “There is a problem of diversity, equity, and inclusion in perfumery “
Shabnam Tavakol is an independent perfumer who draws her strength from an atypical background. As her first fragrance, Nostalgia, is revealed, we exchanged about the issues of diversity, equality and inclusivity in perfumery today.
Natural perfumers
Natural perfumers
Natural perfumes: everyone talks about them, but nobody really knows what they are made of. Nez offers you a special report that gives the floor to the perfumers who compose them, in order to get a real sense of their practices, their experiences and their opinions on the question.
Interviews
Calice Becker: “The ultimate goal would be to see perfume design recognised as an intellectual work”
Calice Becker, President of the International Society of Perfumer-Creators, answered Nez’s questions.
Interviews
The role of the in-house perfumer – Mathilde Laurent (Cartier)
Perfumers become an integral and crucial part of a true ecosystem and they are involved in every stage in the development of a new creation as Mathilde Laurent explains.
