IFF's Perfumery School ensures that our customers will continue to work with the best of the best—talented, creative perfumers and fragrance development managers that have trained with the industry giants.

Opened in 2001, the IFF Perfumery School includes perfumery and fragrance development (known as evaluation) training programs. A rigorous selection process, including extensive interviews with members of the school’s advisory board and olfactory intelligence tests, ensures that IFF selects candidates who have the olfactory ability and behavioral competencies to become highly successful perfumers or evaluators.

Once selected, perfumery students participate in a four-year program that teaches them the basics of perfumery, enables them to gain an understanding of the fragrance preferences of consumers around the globe, and allows them to learn from the best by apprenticing with IFF’s senior perfumers.

Evaluation students participate in a 14-month program, split equally between instruction in the fundamentals of perfumery and experience in the marketing, applications, and project management aspects of the business. They are also required to complete a thesis on a fragrance project related to IFF's business.

The result of this comprehensive training is a gifted team that consistently creates spectacular, commercially-successful fragrances.


Becoming a Student

IFF is committed to investing in our people and developing their talents. For this reason, our Perfumery School is only open to current employees, who must be nominated for consideration by one of our creative center managers and go through the selection process outlined above.

If you are interested in becoming a member of the school, become a member of IFF at one of our creative centers, sales offices, and manufacturing facilities around the world.