THE ART OF PERFUMERY - EDMOND ROUDNITSKA

EDMOND ROUDNITSKA: THE ART OF PERFUMERY

The father of modern perfumery. The mind behind Eau Sauvage, Diorissimo, and Rochas Femme. But more than a perfumer, Edmond Roudnitska was a philosopher of scent. His rare essay The Art of Perfumery is not just a manual—it’s a manifesto.

Written in Cabris, in the shadow of jasmine fields and philosophical rigor, this foundational text outlines perfumery as a discipline of aesthetics, ethics, and composition. Roudnitska believes perfume is not a product—it is an art. His chapters—The Roots and Evolution, The Part of Hedonism, The Intuition of the Perfumer—unfold like a treatise on creative freedom.

He urges perfumers to know their raw materials intimately, to cultivate taste, to associate odors with ideas, and to break formulas into expressive structures. For him, technique must serve emotion. The nose must think. The mind must feel.