“I was 15 years old when I decided to be a perfumer. Originally I wanted to do fashion and couture because my grandfather had an atelier in Paris and when I went to the fashion school in Paris, I was young, I was 15. I had pretty bad skills in drawing and he said, “You know what, you should try to find something else because it’s not going to be easy for you since you don’t know how to draw.” Then I saw a similarity between dressing women and men with clothes and dressing them in perfume. So I decided I would become a perfumer. At 20, I went to a perfumery school in Paris, the only one in the world at the time. At age 23, I got my first job as a Junior Perfumer in a big laboratory. My first fragrance was Le Male by Jean Paul Gaultier. The blue bottle torso with the stripes. That was my first fragrance that I pitched and created. I blended perfume and the notes together for that fragrance. I was at Givaudan, a supplier company. At around 25, I moved to New York to work for the same lab in the city. When I came back to Paris in 2000, I worked mostly with high-end fashion and beauty firms. As part of my pedigree, I worked for Jean Paul Gaultier, Giorgio Armani, Guerlain, Versace, Ferragamo, as an in-house perfumer from the major labs. You pitch for all these project, almost like an advertising company. So I worked for all these people, until now. One of my latest work is for Elie Saab, the fragrance. In 2000, I opened my bespoke atelier. I create...