Perfumery School

Givaudan Perfumery School: A legendary institute that creates the world's leading fragrance artists.

The Givaudan Perfumery School nurtures and inspires tomorrow’s leading fragrance artisans with generations of knowledge, passion and expertise. Open since 1947, Givaudan is the first fragrance company in the world to have its own school, which is widely considered the crème de la crème of fragrance training for those in the fragrance industry. The Givaudan Perfumery School is located in a brand new facility near the Givaudan European Creative Center in Argenteuil, France on the picturesque banks of the Seine, where Monet painted some of his early pieces. The school, under the direction of Jean Guichard, has established a new standard of perfumery training–a structured technique that enables perfumers to systematically learn the entire spectrum of the olfactive genealogy and develop an olfactive memory of over 1200 ingredients

Developing World Class Talent

Without advertising or active recruitment, Givaudan receives over 200 applications for their Perfumery School each year. Givaudan does not accept tuition for training; acceptance is by invitation only. On the average, Givaudan selects only five new students every eighteen months, who dedicate at a minimum three years of study to become a Junior Perfumer. When study is complete, graduating perfumers have the opportunity to create fragrances for the most respected companies in the world. Today, it is estimated that thirty percent of the world’s fragrances have been created by a perfumer who was trained at Givaudan’s Perfumery School.

A constant source of top-notch talent, The Perfumery School is considered one of the cornerstones of Givaudan’s success. With over seventy perfumers on staff, Givaudan represents the largest and most culturally diverse perfumery team in the industry, with the ability to develop fragrances for virtually every product category in every region of the world. Givaudan’s New York Studio has also recently expanded the perfumery school to include a specialized program for key clients expressing and interest in exploring a deeper understanding of perfumery creation.

Givaudan is the essential source of sensory innovation for our customers driven by our mutual passion for excellence..