Christophe Laudamiel

Christophe Laudamiel is a Master Perfumer, scent composer, writer and chemist champion. One of only a few hundred members worldwide of the International Society of Perfumers-Creators. In 2017 he received the first lifetime achievement award ever given by the Institute of Art and Olfaction in Los Angelas for his "Exceptional Contribution to Scent Culture." See Christophe's other awards, including perfumistic and scientific awards. He is known for his avant-garde olfactory compositions, creating a trail of high-end signature fragrances, often doubled with special technologies. "In my opinion he is the greatest inventor of novel perfume structures working today" Luca Turin wrote (2016).  Perfumers & Flavorists called him “Perfumer of the Future” (2018). As olfactory artist, he is the only perfumer with scents entered officially in collections such as the International Perfumery Museum in Grasse, the Cleveland Museum of Art, The Rubin Museum NYC and the Harvard University Archives.  He is represented by Mianki. gallery in Berlin Germany, and Olfactory Art Keller in New York City.

He has co-created top 10 fragrances such as Polo Blue for men by Ralph Lauren, Happy Heart by Clinique, Fierce by Abercrombie & Fitch, Club Design by The Zoo (IAO Award), Richmess by Ryan Richmond (IAO  Award), Saskia by Grandiflora (IAO Award) as well as scents for Annindriya, Beyoncé, Burberry, Savoir-Faire, Strangelove NYC, Tom Ford, Michael Kors, Tommy Hilfiger and Thierry Mugler. In 2010 he founded DreamAir, a boutique perfume studio, focusing on innovative projects in fine fragrances, ambient signature scents as well as artistic or museum projects. In 2019 he became chief perfumer at BélAir Lab Tokyo a subdivision of Rohto Pharmaceuticals. Since 2023 he has been in-house master perfumer at Osmo in New York City.

In ambient scenting, he has designed high-end scent sculptures for major hotels and retailers around the world including Armani, Azul-Japan, Bliss, Bucherer, Dom Perignon, Everlane, Fairmont Hotels, Canada Goose, Grand Hyatt, Hard Rock Hotels and Casinos, Mercedes-Han Sung, New Balance, Oliviers&Co and The Pierre Hotel NYC. He created and scent-jockeyed the thirty-three scents for the scent opera “Green Aria” at the Guggenheim Museums in New York and Bilbao. To note are also his Air Sculpture® designs for the World Economic Forum in Davos and two World Expos, an Elton John candle and a Jason Wu Orchid Rain candle, Orchidelirium EdP for the Kew Royal Botanical Gardens (London) and an olfactory retrospective (1957-2012) at the EU Parliament in Brussels. He exhibited two self-rotating scents for the Istanbul Museum of Modern Art Biennale, two “Opium” scents at the Culture Museum in Basel and five scent sculptures inside the USA Pavilion for a Venice Architecture Biennale.

His passion to lecture and protect the art of Perfumery at the highest level, to defend every single ingredient of value, be it molecular or natural, as well as an extra injection of ethics into the industry via the Perfumery Code of Ethics that he founded, has been widely recognized as exceptional.

Web: https://www.dreamair.mobi

Instagram: @christophelaudamiel