CHRISTOPHE LAUDAMIEL

Christophe Laudamiel is a master perfumer in fine fragrances, ambient installations, and film. He is the in-house perfumer at Osmo New York and BélAirLab Tokyo, following a career at Procter & Gamble (EU, USA), IFF, and DreamAir (both in NYC). Besides receiving numerous awards in fragrances and chemistry and 17 granted patents, he was the first recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award for Contribution to Scent Culture from the Los Angeles Institute of Art and Olfaction. He is known for his avant-garde olfactory compositions, creating a trail of high-end signature fragrances often paired with special technologies. "In my opinion he is the greatest inventor of novel perfume structures working today," Luca Turin wrote in (2016). Perfumers & Flavorists called him "Perfumer of the Future" (2018). The Sunday Times referred to him as the "Perfumer revolutionizing the industry," and iD Magazine called him "a true perfume genius." He created several top-10 scents for fashion and beauty houses such as Abercrombie & Fitch (Fierce), Beyoncé, Clinique, Tom Ford (two scents), Ralph Lauren (Polo Blue for Men), and for numerous niche brands, including the award-winners Annindriya, Grandiflora, Richmess, Savoir-Faire, and Strangelove NYC.

Christophe is the only perfumer whose scents have been included in collections at 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 NYC. He has composed artistic scent-tracks for a Thierry Mugler project (a scent-track of 15 scents for the book and movie Perfume, the Story of a Murderer), as well as for Kate Moss, Heston Blumenthal, David Bowie, and an Andy Warhol piece—a scent printed into Garage Magazine. He has authored major peer-reviewed scientific papers and chapters in several perfume theory books. His scents have been displayed at museums and venues around the world, including at Basel, the Cooper Hewitt in NYC, Grasse, MoMA Istanbul, Seattle, the Mori and Tokyo Towers, and the Guggenheim (in both NYC and Bilbao for Green Aria, a scent opera in 33 scents). His work has also been featured inside the official Japanese, Swiss, and USA Pavilions at World Exhibitions. He has either invented on his own or co-invented with engineers half of the 35 technologies he has used to display his scents. He has been a speaker and ambassador for perfumery at major universities (Harvard, Sorbonne, Cornell), at scientific congresses, and at institutions like the French Embassies in the USA, Canada, and Latin America, the EU Parliament, the Washington D.C. Congress for IFRA, and twice at the World Economic Forum in Davos.

Christophe is respected throughout the industry for his pursuit of ethics in a traditional field that lacks a code of conduct. He founded the Perfume Code of Ethics and has pledged alongside 120 other members to uphold it. He is a very active and vocal advocate for the fair use of natural ingredients in perfume compositions.

He enjoys volunteering as an osmocurator—a smell historian and curator—for the International Fragrance Repository in Versailles (the Osmothèque). He speaks English, French, and German fluently at a conference level, competes nationally in Kung Fu forms, and enjoys dancing, traveling, or watching the dawn on the beach with his blue mohawk dog, Yuki.