Fragrance Innovation Summit

Registration & welcome coffee

30 min

Welcome speech

10 min

Vincent Gallon

Based in Paris, France, Vincent Gallon reports on the cosmetics industry worldwide. He studied Political Sciences and Law at the Université Lumières in Lyon and Université Panthéon-Sorbonne in Paris, and Marketing at the EM Lyon business school. Vincent has a long-standing experience in the cosmetics industry. He started his career at the French beauty federation […]

Eva Jouët

Eva was educated from an engineering school in Shanghai but never had a chance to design a single automobile. However she is now happy to work in the most beautiful sector: cosmetics. After more than 10 years of experience as director of business development in supply chain, she created her own brand, Maison Dakota, in […]

Philippe Ughetto

Philippe Ughetto began his career at Lancaster Cosmetics then joined Bush Boake Allen as Sales Director Fragrances then General Manager France. He joined Arcade Marketing in 1997 as European Director. He will take over the reins of International and General Management of the subsidiary in 2007. In September 2016, Philippe Ughetto joined Doro, a luxury […]

How to make perfumes enter the era of the Symbiocene?

20 min

Gérald Martines

Gerald Martines founded IN•SIGNES to make available to Companies operating in the Beauty Industry a rich experience in the Innovation discipline, based on more than 30 years of practice in executive positions in Marketing, Design, R&D, Sales, General Management and Innovation, at several international groups, leaders of Beauty and Design. Gerald owns a Master’s degree […]

Pascale Brousse

For over 20 years, Pascale Brousse has been highlighting weak signals to support brands in their strategic development, from Indie brands to large groups. In 2000, after 10 years at L’Oréal, she founded Trend Sourcing, a prospective agency specializing in global beauty and health. Her passion is to pass on what will be mainstream tomorrow, […]

A burgeoning global market & new expectations

15 min

Mathilde Lion

Mathilde Lion is industry analyst and director of beauty in Europe for The NPD Group. Her expertise is based on more than 15 years of experience in market research and a decade in the world of beauty. She is responsible for strategic analysis and pan-European beauty research for industry leaders. She also manages relationships with […]

China: How Chinese preferences are shifting from global to local

15 min

Florence Bernardin

Founder and manager of Asia Cosme Lab, Florence Bernardin is totally trilingual and an adept of kawaii philosophy. Having trained in the Japanese school of thought for 15 years at Kao Corporation, she is fascinated by Japan. Her insatiable curiosity enables her to source and assess products like no one else. Her on-site purchases, eye […]

Fei Xu

With more than 13 years of experience, Fei Xu has been Market Intelligence Director at Asia Cosme Lab since 2009. He has a deep expertise in cosmetic trends in China and follows the evolution of Asian cosmetics markets, from consumers to products. Totally trilingual (Chinese, French and English), Fei Xu has been invited as a […]

Case study: EMOTIF by Douyin (TikTok) – The turnkey creation of a Chinese perfume brand

10 min

Irene Nieh

Irene Nieh a rejoint l’équipe commerciale de Meiyume China en 2018. Elle est actuellement responsable régionale grands comptes et responsable des projets pour les parfums TikTok (Douyin). Elle est responsable des développements de nouveaux produits du projet initial au produit final. Avec plus de 8 ans d’expérience professionnelle dans l’industrie de la beauté – y […]

Niche perfumery is booming in South Korea

20 min

Florence Bernardin

Founder and manager of Asia Cosme Lab, Florence Bernardin is totally trilingual and an adept of kawaii philosophy. Having trained in the Japanese school of thought for 15 years at Kao Corporation, she is fascinated by Japan. Her insatiable curiosity enables her to source and assess products like no one else. Her on-site purchases, eye […]

Brigitte Wormser

After 3 years at the ISIPCA (Institut supérieur international du parfum, de la cosmétique et de l’aromatiquealimentaire), Brigitte Wormser began her career with Nina Ricci, Germaine Monteil, then Dior and Lacroix. Within these major houses she had the opportunity to work with tenors of the perfume industry, including Véra Strubi and Maurice Roger. Then she […]

The transformation of the US fragrance market – trends, insights and leverages

20 min

Julien Lutz

Julien Lutz is analytical lead at Spate, the artificial intelligence trends platform for beauty and food. Prior to joining Spate, Julien was a Project Manager / Business analyst at LVMH Perfumes & Cosmetics where he was in charge of giving a wider perspective of the business data to all the LVMH P&C brands.

Leïla Rochet

Leila launched Cosmetics Inspiration & Creation in 2007 in Paris after more than 20 years of experience in the cosmetics and fragrances business, including Procter & Gamble and LVMH. Leila’s multi-cultural education, international studies and industry experience give her a unique sense of open-mindedness and the ability to find alternative perspectives and pathways to innovation. […]

Questions / Discussion

10 min

COFFEE BREAK

15 min

Sharing emotions through fragrances with new generation devices

10 min

Cláudia Galvão

Graduated in Engineering, Cláudia has always had entrepreneurship and innovation in her DNA. Throughout her career, she has invested in and promoted research that brings new technologies to change the market and society as a whole. In 2011, she creates Ananse, a nanotechnology company that develops innovative solutions for fragrance delivery. Recently, Cláudia has once […]

Round table: AI and data: A new link between creators and consumers?

20 min

Kristel Milet

Kristel Milet has been specializing in the cosmetics and perfumes sector for more than 16 years. She has covered this industry in France and Europe, from manufacturers, brands, distributors, to trends, international markets and business strategies. She has collaborated with several professional media including Premium Beauty News and Brazil Beauty News for which she has […]

Samuel Fillon

Samuel Fillon created Sommelier du Parfum in 2017 with the aim to help consumers to find their way within the thousands fragrances offered to them. The AI-powered app also helps brands and manufacturers to leverage on data and machine learning to develop new fragrances that meet the expectations of their customers.

Marc Attalah

Marc is specialized in Data Science/Machine Learning & Digital Transformation. He founded and developed Caritat Strategic Analytics Group (CSAG) pioneering in AI/machine learning acquired by Deloitte. He then founded Zettafox acquired by Mazars in 2017 to accelerate the digital audit and create new disruptive offers based on data and Machine Learning for the consulting business. […]

Pierre Vinet

An interior designer graduate, Pierre began his professional career at Fitch, before moving to China where he upgraded and updated his approach of retail with a focus on digital trends. Once back in France, he joined the Apanache agency, with which he partnered in 2015 to create Bweez, a digital retail agency that shakes up […]

Laure Braive

From Baccarat to Hermès, via the fragrance divisions of Prada, Valentino and Comme des Garçons, or at ethical jeweller Or du Monde, Laure Braive’s career has been built around three complementary and interconnected functions: Marketing, Training and Retail. Laure Braive is now working as an independent consultant in Marketing and Luxury Customer Experience. What drives […]

From YouTube fragrance reviews to perfume creation

10 min

Demi Rawling

Growing up around fragrances, Demi Rawling developed a stronger connection with them as a teenager, investing a lot of her time researching the industry. Eventually, she decided to start reviewing her fragrance collection on YouTube, hoping to connect with people whom share my passion for perfume. Four years later, she has built one of the […]

Biomimicry: A much promising innovation process for the perfume industry

30 min

Laurent Billon

Laurent Billon is Professor at the University of Pau & Pays de l’Adour where he teaches Polymer Science. He is Deputy Director of the IPREM UMR 5254 and leads a group of researchers on bio-inspired materials by studying their functionality and self-assembly capacity. His research activity is based on the realisation of new macromolecular architectures […]

Alain Renaudin

Alain Renaudin’s dual experience as deputy managing director of the Ifop polling institute and president of DDB Corporate within the US-based communications group has given him a very strong awareness of public opinion, social issues and the new role that socio-economic players must play in it. Alain Renaudin became interested in sustainable development after the […]

Questions / Discussion

10 min

LUNCH BREAK

1h15 min

Perfumes, emotions, and neurosciences

10 min

Philippe Poirier

Chemist by training, Philippe’s career developed first in the FMCG industry with roles at L’Oréal and SCJohnson in France, then at Reckitt Benckiser in France and the UK. From front end innovation to in market support, Philippe has experienced most of the R&D activities related to the development of consumer preferred products covering household, personal […]

Study case: Soothing, relaxing perfumes by TiL

15 min

Francis Vial

Francis Vial has an academic education from the University of Medicine of Tours, France. He has a doctorate degree in neurophysiology. Since 1997, he has worked for Spincontrol, a clinical trial center specialized in the in-vivo efficacy and tolerance of cosmetic products. Since 2000, he has created a laboratory, Emospin, which propose emotional & well-being […]

Sylvie Polette

After more than 25 years in fine perfumery, within a fragrance composition house (Quest, Givaudan) and at designer brands (Yves St Lauren, Jil Sander, Jean Paul Gaultier, etc.) in international marketing management roles, Sylvie Polette co-founded TiL with her sisters. The brand launched in September 2021 in France, in selective retail. TiL is a beauty […]

Round table: Beyond perfume raw materials: farmers, craftsmen and nature. Towards a new rhetoric?

25 min

Sophie Normand

Sophie Normand is now editor for Fragrantica and Premium Beauty News. She also writes for niche perfumery brands. In parallel with this editorial activity, she leads olfactory training and trend tours dedicated to niche and high-end perfumery brands.

Magali Quénet

After having worked at Maison Annick Goutal where she has held various positions – Boutique Director, E-Commerce Manager and International Trainer – for nineteen years, Magali Quénet is now a “fragrance explorer” and now travels the world to the sources of Perfume and Well-being raw materials and experiences.

Dominique Roques

After a MBA in Business, Dominique Roques has been involved in the sourcing of natural extracts for Perfumery for 35 years. Working first with the French company Biolandes, he has been involved in the setting of extraction facilities in Andalucia, Morocco, Madagascar, Turkey and Bulgaria. Joining Firmenich in 2009, he has been in charge of […]

Jean Jacques

Jean JACQUES is CARON’s in-house perfumer.  This is an uncommon fortune, but this luxury was essential to embody their creativity and give substance, literally, to their vision of Haute Parfumerie. Like the house’s founder, Ernest DALTROFF, he is passionate, perfectionist, and full of curiosity. He also has an inveterate taste for travel. When he arrived […]

Suzy Le Helley

Suzy Le Helley is a Fine Fragrances perfumer at Symrise. She studied at ISIPCA, France’s main graduate school for would be perfumers, before spending a few years in Symrise’s internal perfume school in Holzminden, Germany, she joined Symrise Paris in 2018 and worked on regulatory reformulation, the development of Philyra (IA) and natural raw materials. […]

Innovation at the core of an ecoresponsible single-dose product strategy

10 min

Céline Boix

Céline joined the Sampling Innovations Europes team in 2019 as Sales and Marketing Director. Her vision: Create a surprising sensory experience, awaken consumers’ senses by helping them to discover new fragrances and cosmetic products through innovative samples and single-dose solutions. Her experience as a consultant allows her to advise clients on the promotional strategy and […]

The blockchain in the service of transparency and traceability

10 min

Michel Gutsatz

Michel Gutsatz is the owner of Le Jardin Retrouvé, a family perfume house, created in 1975 by perfumer Yuri Gutsatz, his father. The brand, relaunched in 2016 with the help of artist Clara Feder as Creative Director, is now distributed in e-commerce and retail in more than 20 countries around the world, with a strong […]

Philippe Guguen

Philippe Guguen began his career in cosmetics marketing for major international brands, including Biotherm in Europe and Guerlain in North America. With the arrival of the internet, he dives into technology in 1999. He created a start-up which became a leader in Europe in less than 10 years before being acquired by Orange Group. For […]

Carbon-captured ethanol in fragrances

15 min

Babette Pettersen

Babette Pettersen studied biology aiming at a career in medicine, but changed course to enter the chemical industry. She spent much of her career at Dow Corning, ending up as global head of marketing and she is now chief commercial officer at bio-tech start-up LanzaTech.

Géraldine Poivert

The (RE)SET screens our companies and industries, who all too often pursue linear and oil-based strategies. The team leaves no stones unturned and get their hands dirty to find more sustainable, more circular solutions, step by step, but with energy, conviction, and rigor. RE)SET now supports over a hundred clients, both public and private, individually […]

Upcycling and upgrading needles and branches from evergreen of the Alps

10 min

Nicolas Blaser

Nicolas Blaser is, above all, a mountain and forest lover. In 2020, when he created Alpes Cambium with Mareb Bashmilah, Pharmacist, Nicolas Blaser had 15 years of experience in logging and forestry. The company develops, manufactures and markets organic extracts from forest by-products and wild plants for the aromatherapy, health, beauty, perfumery and flavour markets. […]

Alcohol-free, high-performance natural perfumes

15 min

Nathalie Dickeli

Nathalie Dickeli is Full Service and GWP General Manager at Superga Beauty Group, the beauty division of Superga Invest. Superga Beauty is an industrial partner of beauty brands, manufacturer, filler and supplier of promotional items, in particular for luxury cosmetic and fragrance brands.

Jennifer Buzzi

Jennifer Buzzi has been Development & Innovation Manager at Expressions Parfumées for 8 years. Graduated engineer from the School of Industrial Biology in Cergy, France, she has worked for more than 13 years in the perfume industry in Grasse. She began her career in the application laboratory in charge of technical support and cross category […]

COFFEE BREAK

15 min

Sophie Normand

Sophie Normand is now editor for Fragrantica and Premium Beauty News. She also writes for niche perfumery brands. In parallel with this editorial activity, she leads olfactory training and trend tours dedicated to niche and high-end perfumery brands.

Round table – Green chemistry, white chemistry, biotech: Towards a new generation of perfume ingredients

30 min

Nicolas Blaser

Nicolas Blaser is, above all, a mountain and forest lover. In 2020, when he created Alpes Cambium with Mareb Bashmilah, Pharmacist, Nicolas Blaser had 15 years of experience in logging and forestry. The company develops, manufactures and markets organic extracts from forest by-products and wild plants for the aromatherapy, health, beauty, perfumery and flavour markets. […]

Babette Pettersen

Babette Pettersen studied biology aiming at a career in medicine, but changed course to enter the chemical industry. She spent much of her career at Dow Corning, ending up as global head of marketing and she is now chief commercial officer at bio-tech start-up LanzaTech.

Jérémy Pessiot

Co-founder of AFYREN in 2012, Jérémy Pessiot is today Director of Innovation, Deputy Managing Director of the Company and Director of its industrial subsidiary, AFYREN NEOXY. A doctor in microbiology and bioprocesses, Jérémy Pessiot started his career by launching the AFYREN project at the end of his studies at the Blaise Pascal University in Clermont-Ferrand, […]

Refillable fragrances: The new Holy Grail or not such a good idea?

10 min

Gérald Martines

Gerald Martines founded IN•SIGNES to make available to Companies operating in the Beauty Industry a rich experience in the Innovation discipline, based on more than 30 years of practice in executive positions in Marketing, Design, R&D, Sales, General Management and Innovation, at several international groups, leaders of Beauty and Design. Gerald owns a Master’s degree […]

Metallizing: How to escape the minimalism dead end with sustainable decoration

10 min

Eric Pertus

Éric Pertus is co-founder and CEO of Altus Coating, a company specializing in UV varnishes for packaging for beauty and personal care products, wines & spirits and high-end products.

Innovating with materials: Injectable like plastic or luxurious and recyclable like metal?

10 min

Case study: Bringing perfume packaging into the circular economy. What about Zamak?

10 min

Nicolas Monmarthe

A graduate of ESIEC, Nicolas Monmarthe began his career at Jackel in 2007 as Packaging Engineer, then Development Manager at Li & Fung Beauty. With a real passion for technology and the development of prestigious parts for the cosmetics industry, he joined TNT Global Manufacturing at the creation of the company in 2013, and has […]

Discussion and conclusion

15 min