At IFF, our Scent experts teams harness the full emotional power of scent, driven by pioneering creativity, leading science and consumer expertise, and a mindful approach to fragrance design.
Nothing comes close to the emotional power of scent. Whether the fresh scent of laundry washed with our lasting scent solutions, the clean smell of a beautiful bouncing mane, the rich comforting smell of a burning home candle, or the personal signature of a complex cologne : scents make joy. This is what our perfumers, scent experts, scientists, agronomists, and chemists around the world strive for: unleash the emotional power of scent to make joy.
Our scent experts strive to bring brands around the world the perfect scent solution, from fragrance to delivery systems and ingredients, across all scent categories.
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Fragrance Ingredients
The IFF Art of Creation is anchored in a diverse team of experts, from our perfumers to scent design managers – a role IFF created -, consumer research experts, chemists, agronomists, scientists across a variety of fields. Together, our perfume experts work with famed molecules, beautiful naturals, to make joy, with scents.
Since Ernest Shiftan times, in the 1960’s, IFF has a long history of training perfumery talents, many of whom have become scent legends, such as master perfumers Sophia Grojsman, Carlos Benaïm, Franc Schiet, Stephen Nicoll, Denis Maroney and many others. Today, IFF’s perfumery school welcomes trainees from every continent, to invent the perfumery of tomorrow. To know more, explore our Masters of Scent Design and Creation.
In 2000, IFF revolutionized the perfume creation industry, establishing a unique collaborative approach to scent creation. There is nothing like this team of stellar talents, working together across generations, borders, cultures, and categories.
Thanks to this powerful team approach, IFF harnesses the combined power of creativity, technical expertise, and passion, a common denominator to all our perfumers and scent experts.
The IFF La Fabrica takes its inspiration from the Andy Warhol factory. Its aim: bring together our artists of perfumery and artists from all fields, to think outside of the box and imagine the future of perfumery.
Forget « it can’t be done ». With the IFF La Fabrica, no ideas are out of bounds, when artists meet artists.
In 1983, Monique Remy created LMR in Grasse, with a vision to produce the highest quality naturals from around the world, with ethics and transparency at the core of LMR every action. Today, LMR is simply the natural signature of the greatest perfumes.
Modern perfumery was born towards the end of the 19th century, thanks to the discovery of groundbreaking molecules, providing perfumers with an infinite playground for scent creation. IFF made the perfume industry as we know it today, with legendary molecule signatures like Cashmeran, ISO E Super, Amber Xtreme and many more. Our ingredients portfolio continues to spearhead fragrance innovation, harnessing mindful fragrance design into ingredients processes, to minimize our environmental impact. To know more about our fragrance ingredients portfolio, visit here.
At IFF Botanical Gardens, IFF scientists study and recreate life’s
most precious moments by leveraging plant science. Their inspiration? Our Living Flower™ Technology, first created in 1985 by Dr Braja Mookerjee, to understand living nature. Today, plants grown hydroponically, and more. Its purpose: to develop sustainable scent solutions from biodiverse plants from around the world, capturing scents of life anywhere, anytime.
Over 80% of consumers around the world want more from their fragrance than a mere good smell*. The IFF Science of Wellness program, which builds on IFF’s more than forty years of research in fragrance and its impact on emotion and wellness, is designed to guide the creation of scents that support science-based consumer wellbeing, with emotional, cognitive and physical benefits. Through the combination of neuroscience and consumer perception data, a best-in-class fragrance palette, and the use of its in-house artificial intelligence tool, created in 2006, IFF perfumers design scents that can be used across all scented categories for additional consumer benefits.
*source: IFF Research
Discover some of the creations that made modern perfumery, created by the IFF Artists of Perfumery
Some of our recent creations include
The LMR team and IFF perfumers are delighted to join the Paris Perfume Week, spotlighting LMR Natural ingredients and the art of perfumery
teams to discover our novel perfumery ingredients
Let’s create the future of Scent together