What is needed and where to go if it's something you're seriously considering. So this is my best advice if you're considering perfumery as a potential future career. Advice for getting in to a perfumery school, with added little tip bits of advice for being self taught.
All though as a trained perfumer, some schools might like a degree in Chemistry, it's not a 100% need for all students. If you want the absolute best chance of getting the job, ring up the schools and directly ask them advice. Don't guess, speak to the people there, they may recommend you go ahead and do that Chemistry degree. Though I know for a fact that if you have enough passion, and are keen enough, they will take you on regardless of having a degree in Chemistry or not. So it's not the end of the world if you don't have a Chemistry brain. You just have to prove you want it enough. So start that blog, and get a job in a fragrance store, demonstrate and prove your interest. Ring them on the phone...
You could even try get an apprenticeship directly with companies like IFF and beg them for a placement. Don't let chemistry put you off. It is still a possible career without a degree. Here's a link to two of the biggest / best well known perfumery schools. Both are in France.
(Here you will be placed in to work after finishing, and be sent to where ever is needed, it might be New York, Brazil, Switzerland, or Grasse, but you'll work for big brands in fine fragrance)
www.givaudan.com/fragrances/p...
Check out video clips from the Givudan school here:
• Video 1: Intro to the ...
(Francis Kurkdjian trained here and many, many others)
You will spend a long time just memorizing raw materials, and identifying them in percentage before you even blend a scent. It takes time, patience and a keen focus. Don't expect it to be easy.
www.isipca-school.com
Ring up IFF, Robertet, Firmenich and write them a letter, or turn up on their door and beg them for taking you on as a student. Offer to work for free. If you push enough someone will listen. Most people are just scared to ask.
Here are some of the biggest fragrance companies in the world you can contact:
www.iff.com
www.robertet.com/en/
www.firmenich.com/en_INT/index...
If all that fails, there's no limits for being self taught.
Practice, practice, practice, and you can do it yourself with your own brand. Many of my favorite perfumers are completely self-taught.
I am the perfumer and owner of Centauri Perfumes
www.centauriperfumes.com
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21 авг 2018
