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  • Philippe Chuit: The contributions to perfumery of an innovative chemist
    After selling his interest in Chuit & Naef — which became Firmenich — Chuit continued to research perfumery materials for the company which he had helped to found ... and hired one of the ages great chemists to replace him as director of the company's R&D.

  • Germaine Cellier: From chemistry major to rebel perfumer
    Hired as a chemist, tired of making scented soap for Colgate, she became the cutting edge fragrance creator for France's top designers.

  • Francois Coty: Founder of the Modern Perfume Industry
    Francois Coty practically invented the four pillars of the modern perfume business - financial alchemy, product packaging, modern promotion and mass marketing.

  • Jeanne Lanvin: The Stuggle To Sell Perfume
    Fourteen fragrances had been created for her before she had her first success — "My Sin" — which propelled Lanvin into a perfume business that still exists today.

  • Jean Patou
    A fashion designer who successfully marketed "the world's most expensive perfume" ... in the middle of a depression!

  • David McConnell
    Book salesman turned perfume entrepreneur, McConnell launched the California Perfume Company from New York City; under his son's direction it become Avon.

  • Pierre Balmain
    Would you put your phone number on your perfume ... as a name? Balman did and it doesn't appear to have hurt his business at all!

  • Elizabeth Arden
    After a string of failures with perfume, this successful businesswoman finally had a hit fragrance ... in spite of a name that her advisers begged her not to use. (Launched in 1936, it's still on the market today!)

  • Blanche Arvoy
    She launched two perfume companies and had her perfume put to music!

  • Paul Poiret
    The first designer to offer a "designer" perfume ... but he offered it under his daughter's name, not his own!



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