Florence Fouillet
Florence Fouillet Dubois spent more than two decades inside one of the industry's most prestigious houses before stepping out on her own. Trained at ISIPCA with a complementary business education from ESSEC, she rose through the ranks at Firmenich, where she sharpened both her creative instincts and technical precision. Her professional path eventually led her to P&G Prestige, where she managed fragrance development for a global portfolio of luxury licenses, handling everything from ingredient sourcing to the craft of training program creation. A move to Lalique Group deepened her command of high-stakes perfumery project management. But something was missing. The industry, as she once described it, tends to resist novelty, preferring to follow proven taste rather than take risks on genuinely new olfactory ideas. She found that frustrating. So when Les Indemodables invited her to collaborate on their new independent house, she took the leap. Teaching olfaction and formulation at ISIPCA has kept her intellectually restless. She now shares her expertise as a mentor for apprentices and, on the clinical side, works as a scent-therapist in the neuroreeducation department at Geneva University Hospital.
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The signature
How Florence composes
Florence gravitates toward natural materials with real presence. Her specialty in sourcing and extracting fragrance from living plants gives her compositions an immediacy that synthetic accord-building rarely achieves. She favors ingredients with animalic depth, complex florals like osmanthus and jasmine, and leather notes that carry both history and sensuality. In Cuir de Chine, she paired a buttery, animalic osmanthus with indolic jasmine and an ambergris-leaning base that unfolds dramatically over hours on skin. Her signature feels rooted in classic French perfumery structure but stripped of nostalgic imitation. She prefers refined, faceted compositions that reveal different dimensions as they develop rather than flat, linear statements. Natural extracts produced locally with traceable provenance define her material palette.
Philosophy
What drives Florence
Florence approaches fragrance as both science and conversation. Her work at a major Swiss hospital suggests she sees scent as something that communicates directly with the body and mind, not merely as an aesthetic object. At Les Indemodables, she found a house willing to prioritize olfactive integrity over market timing. Their charter requires significant quantities of premium natural extracts, a philosophy that aligns with her belief that quality materials produce more nuanced, more honest compositions. She describes independent perfumery as lonely at first, the sudden silence after years of collaborative teams, but she has grown to cherish the creative freedom it allows. Her teaching at ISIPCA reinforces her conviction that perfumery demands both rigorous technical skill and genuine artistic intuition.
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