Nicolas Chabot
Founder
INTUITIVE, CURIOUS, HE GETS A KICK OUT OF GOING THE LONG WAY AROUND.
THIS IS HOW NICOLAS CHABOT’S CHARACTER COULD BEST BE SUMMARISED.
A PERFUME CONNOISSEUR AND ENTREPRENEUR, HE RELAUNCHED LE GALION IN 2014 BEFORE ESTABLISHING THE BRAND ÆTHER IN 2016. HIS TRUE ADMIRATION FOR FRAGRANCES’ DISTINCT ABILITY TO CAPTURE WHAT SURROUNDS US LED HIM TO CREATE HEADSPACE: THE OLFACTORY SYNTHESIS OF SCIENCE AND POETRY.
TO BETTER ALIGN WITH THE TIMES, THIS INSPIRING CREATIVE ALSO LIKES COMPOSING OLFACTORY SIGNATURES FOR BRANDS OR PLACES. AS LONG AS IT’S ABOUT SCENTS AND EMOTIONS, THE TIRELESS DREAMER’S IMAGINATION STOPS FOR NOTHING.
JULES DINAND
DESIGNER
GRANDSON OF PIERRE DINAND, EMBLEMATIC DESIGNER OF 20TH CENTURY PERFUME BOTTLES _ FEMME DE ROCHAS, EAU SAUVAGE DIOR (1966), CALANDRE PACO RABANNE (1969), OPIUM YVES SAINT-LAURENT (1977)…ETC _ , JULES DINAND WORKS TODAY WITH HIS GRANDFATHER AND BOTH CONTINUE TO IMAGINE AND CREATE PERFUME BOTTLES, TRUE BRAND SYMBOLS AND REVEAL THE FRAGRANCES BY MAGNIFYING THEIR CASES. DRIVEN BY THE SAME PASSION AND THE SAME PLEASURE, IT IS NOW TOGETHER THAT THEY CO-CREATE AND GIVE BIRTH TO PROJECTS SUCH AS HEADSPACE.
FANNY BAL
PERFUMER
IT WAS DURING HER STUDIES IN CHEMISTRY, WHICH WOULD HAVE VERY WISELY LED HER TO THE PROFESSION OF ENGINEER, THAT FANNY BAL DISCOVERED THE PATH OF PERFUMERY. LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT IS IMMEDIATE AND THE DECISION TO BECOME A PERFUMER IS IRREVOCABLE. SINCE THEN, THIS PASSIONATE YOUNG WOMAN HAS CONTINUED HER DETERMINATION. SHE FOLLOWS IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF HER MASTER PERFUMER, DOMINIQUE ROPION.
NICOLAS BEAULIEU
PERFUMER
THE STYLE OF NICOLAS IS CHARACTERIZED BY THE ENHANCEMENT OF RAW MATERIALS IN THE VERY RESPECT OF THE OLFACTIVE INGREDIENT. FOR THIS EPICUREAN, FOUND OF VINTAGE WINES AND GASTRONOMY, INSPIRATION COMES FROM SENSORIAL EXPERIENCES: THE ENCOUNTER OF A MATERIAL FOSTERS THE DESIRE OF WORKING ON IT.HIS SENSITIVITY AND HIS HIGH-END TECHNIQUE NURTURE HIS VIRTUOSITY, AND DEFINE HIM AS A PERFECTIONIST OLFACTIVE POET.
CAROLINE DUMUR
PERFUMER
ALL OR NOTHING…. IT WAS ALWAYS OBVIOUS TO CAROLINE DUMUR THAT SHE WOULD ONE DAY BECOME A PERFUMER. PASSION, ALTHOUGH THE WORD IS NOT QUITE STRONG ENOUGH… HAD ALWAYS BEEN THERE BUT IT WAS PERFUME MORE THAN ANYTHING ELSE THAT SHE WAS FASCINATED BY. NEVER GIVING UP, A TOTAL BELIEF IN HER VOCATION, CAROLINE DUMUR IS A DEFENDER OF FREE AND DARING PERFUMERY, NOT AFRAID OF DARK AND MYSTERIOUS MATERIALS, ALWAYS IN SEARCH OF THEIR TRUE POWER.
JULIEN RASQUINET
PERFUMER
AMONG OUR FIVE SENSES, IT SEEMS THAT SMELL HAS A DIRECT CONNECTION WITH MEMORIES AND EMOTIONS.
JULIEN RASQUINET REALIZED QUITE LATE, AND THANKS TO THE INTUITION OF THE FAMOUS PERFUMER PIERRE BOURDON, THAT HE WAS DESTINED TO CREATING PERFUMES AND BECOME JULIEN’S MENTOR.
JULIEN DISCOVERED ANOTHER PASSION WHEN HE FIRST WENT TO THE MIDDLE EAST, HE FELL IN LOVE WITH ORIENTAL PERFUMERY.
JULIEN’S INSPIRATION ALWAYS COMES FROM AN ENCOUNTER; WHETHER IT IS A PERSON, A SONG, A SENTENCE IN A BOOK, OR A PLACE. FROM THOSE ENCOUNTERS JULIEN EXTRACTS SENSATIONS SUCH AS TEXTURES, COLORS, RAW MATERIALS THAT WILL BECOME THE BASE OF THE STORY HE HAS BEEN CREATING IN HIS MIND.
MIROSLAV PETKOV
PERFUMER
MIROSLAV PETKOV, A RENOWNED BULGARIAN PERFUMER, STARTED HIS JOURNEY IN THE WORLD OF FRAGRANCES IN HIS HOMETOWN OF PLOVDIV. HIS PASSION FOR CREATING UNIQUE FRAGRANCES AND HIS AMBITION TO GROW INTERNATIONALLY HAS FINALLY PUSHED HIM TO LEAVE BULGARIA AND PURSUE HIS DREAMS ABROAD AND JOIN IFF WITH SEVERAL INTERNATIONAL SUCCESSES TO HIS ASSETS.
DOMINIQUE ROPION
PERFUMER
Perfume makes people desirable; it is a fabulous power. My commitment is to try to create emotion in my fellow human beings, to allow them to feel more present in the world or to take a step back from it, to help weave community, religious, or romantic bonds, to generate self-confidence, to bring people closer together, and to invite them to take an interest in others—if only to discover their scent.
PAUL GUERLAIN
PERFUMER
Paul Guerlain is junior perfumer at IFF, having trained first in New York and then in Paris. Coming from such a famous family of perfumers, his grandfather inspired Paul to become a perfumer.
Paul Guerlain's approach when creating a new perfume is to create a dialogue between raw materials.
"I like to make them meet, that's how they attract each other, oppose each other, reveal themselves... That's how I work."
THOMAS VANZ
FILM DIRECTOR
BORN IN 1991, THOMAS VANZ IS A FRENCH DIRECTOR WHO STARTED MAKING FILMS IN 2014, TELLING TALES OF THE COSMOS’S HISTORY BY PRODUCING ONLY PRACTICAL FX WITH INKS, PIGMENTS AND MANY OTHERS CHEMICAL PRODUCTS.FOCUSED ON THE MACROSCOPIC ASPECT, HE TRIES FIRST TO ILLUSTRATE A SUPERNOVA, BLENDING ART AND SCIENCE WITH HIS FIRST SHORT “NOVAE” IN 2016, THE FILM IS AWARDED BY THE QUANTUM FESTIVAL FIRST PRIZE.IN 2019, ATELIER DES LUMIÈRES, FIRST IMMERSIVE MUSEUM BASED IN PARIS, ASKED HIM TO CREATE AN UNIQUE PIECE IN A 270° FORMAT CALLED “VERSE”, BROADCASTED FOR ONE YEAR TO THOUSANDS OF VISITORS.FOR HEADSPACE, THOMAS HAS FILMED HIS VISION OF THE IMAGINATION MENTAL SPACE AND THE EMOTION BROUGHT BY FRAGRANCES TO THE BRAIN.