When perfumery blends with heritage, scientific research and contemporary artistic creation. Since these are the missions of our endowment fund, it is our duty to translate them into concrete actions ; and our desire to make them accessible and beneficial to all. Heritage & Perfumery : For the first time and exclusively for Héritage(s), Dominique […]
The 2022 Vintage Projects
The Per Fumum Endowment Fund is pleased to introduce you the new projects that have started this September. For the rolling year 2022-23, the Per Fumum Endowment Fund is committed to four new projects. First of all, we are supporting research and contemporary creation in relation to perfume thanks to a conference organized by Émilie […]
La cuisine des nez
Unpublished! “La cuisine des nez”, the recipe book of the great perfume designers, to be consulted on the website of the Per Fumum Endowment Fund. This book signed by Sabine Chabbert, the preface of which was written by Olivier Roellinger, speaks of the almost obvious correlation between cooking and perfume. This beautiful “olfacto-culinary” book gives […]
These rituals that made great perfumes
When perfumers reveal their work habits. As original as they are, behind some great perfumes, there are rituals and habits, sometimes obsessive, that have transformed technical formulas into magical formulas. By listening again to the Heritage(s) testimonies, you will discover in some of them, the reflexive postures of some who preceded great perfumes. Jean Kerléo, […]
The contribution of neuroscience towards understanding Covid
The contribution of neuroscience towards understanding Covid – a review of the conference of May 12, co-hosted by Stephanie Prinet-Morou of the Per Fumum Endowment Fund, Professor Lledo and Dr. Poivet of the Perception and Memory Unit at the Pasteur Institute for SFP member perfumers. Two years ago in July 2020 at the beginning of […]
Pathways in the Fragrance Industry
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 […]