Career paths in perfumery: Édouard Fléchier, Nicole Benitta, Noël Guihot and Pierre Dinand look back on their first steps. Whether they chose to go into perfumery or not, training in perfumery at school is not (always) the guarantee of a successful career in this field of activity, which is only open to passionate people. Édouard […]
Expert talk : the brain’s behavior when confronted with a smell
Dr. Erwan Poivet, conductor at the Institut Pasteur in the ETOC study assessing the relationship between olfaction and cognition in Covid-related anosmia, explains how the brain behaves when faced with a smell. Erwan Poivet, PhD in Organism Biology and member of the Perception and Memory Unit of the Institut Pasteur, explains that olfaction is a […]
Perfumery or nothing
Nicole Benitta, Noël Guihot, Pierre Dinand: When perfumery represents a turning point. While it was not a career choice, it was nevertheless a turning point in their professional life or even in their lives. For Nicole Benitta – the perfumer’s assistant Edouard Fletcher, for Noël Guihot – the application specialist and for Pierre Dinand – […]
Francis Kurkdjian presents Heritage(s)
Article written by Anne-Sophie Hojlo and available on Revue Nez here.
The new portraits Heritage(s)
Their names are Édouard Fléchier, Nicole Benitta, Gérard Pelpel, Noël Guihot and Pierre Dinand, discover the amazing career paths of these personalities from the perfumery. Arrived by opportunity or by choice, the personalities of the perfumery which constitute the Heritage(s) have in common to have practised a profession of passion, a demanding occupation whose scale […]
What is the olfactory evoked potential technique?
What’s new, Doctor: what about ETOC? Erwan Poivet, Doctor of Organismal Biology and member of the Institut Pasteur’s Memory and Perception Unit, speaks about the ‘olfactory evoked potential’ technique used in the ETOC scientific study. Remember, as part of the fight against covid, the Per Fumum Endowment Fund has been working for nearly two years […]
For those who want to start perfumery
Jean Amic, Jérôme Di Marino or Myriam Compiani tell us about those who want to start perfumery After having discussed the motivations, background, and training, it seemed important to us, at this point, to draw from the testimonies of “Heritage(s)”, some advice for those who wish to launch themselves in perfumery. For this purpose, we […]
Francis Kurkdjian presents Héritage(s) in the magazine Expression Cosmétique
Source : Expression Cosmétique
The story of iconic perfume by their perfumer
They are called L’Eau d’Orange verte, Cool Water, Pour Homme or Black, iconic perfumes that have marked the career of their perfumer-creators. They tell us the story of these perfumes… “L’Eau d’Orange Verte”, by Hermès, was created very quickly. When Françoise Caron received the brief, it was an evidence for her and she took pleasure […]
Launch of the new “Collections” database of the Osmotheque, last step!
Since January 2022, the teams of the Osmothèque, the International Conservatory of perfumes, have benefited from a new computer tool for the management of the unique collection of perfumes it preserves. The result of a long term work started almost 1 year ago, and made possible thanks to the patronage of the Per Fumum Endowment […]