Christophe Laudamiel

Christophe Laudamiel is a Contemporary French Perfumer, M. Sc. Chem., born in Clermont-Ferrand (France, 1969) and living in New York City.

Education

After winning the French National Chemistry Olympiads in 1986, and completing Mathematiques Speciales P' at Lycee Blaise Pascal in Clermont-Ferrand in 1988, Christophe Laudamiel graduated Valedictorian with a Master's Degree in Chemistry from the European Higher Institute of Chemistry in Strasbourg (EHICS, France, 1991). As a Procter & Gamble Teaching Fellow, he then started a PhD at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, MA. He dropped out of the PhD program after one year to become teaching assistant in Chemistry at Harvard University in 1992. In 1994 he joined the Procter & Gamble Creative Perfumery School in Newcastle-upon-Tyne (UK). He received his Creative Perfumery Degree in 1997 from the Procter & Gamble European Center in Brussels (Belgium) where he was soon after promoted Senior Perfumer. In 1999, he received the Procter & Gamble Special Recognition Award for his work in fragrance creation, especially in fabric softeners, and for his discoveries of new fragrance molecules and technologies.^[1] In 1999-2000, he concomitantly and voluntarily learned fine-fragrance creation with ueberfamous perfumer Pierre Bourdon at Fragrance Resources. In year 2000, he joined International Flavors & Fragrances in Manhattan where he polished his skills with perfumers Carlos Benaim, Sophia Grojsman and Pierre Wargny.

Creations

He rapidly won projects on two of the most prestigious accounts at the time in New York City: Estee Lauder Companies (Tommy Hilfiger Cool Spray for Woman, 2001) and Polo Blue for Man, Ralph Lauren, co-created in 2001 with Carlos Benaim, launched in 2002, winner of the Fifi Award "Fragrance Star of the Year" in 2003.^[2]

Notes

1. http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=0&f=S&l=50&TERM1=laudamiel&FIELD1=INNM&co1=AND&TERM2=&FIELD2=&d=PTXT
2. Women's Wear Daily, full acknowledgment page from Ralph Lauren, June 13, 2003

References

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• http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/19/magazine/19style_perfume.t.html
• http://www.alliance-us.org/en/Page.Culture.Lecture.Laudamiel.aspx
• http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/01/23/davos.perfume/index.html
• http://www.boston.com/yourlife/articles/2007/02/22/making_perfect_scents/
• http://jscms.jrn.columbia.edu/cns/2008-05-13/danner-scent.html
• http://www.stern.de/lifestyle/leute/parfuemerie-jungfrauenduft-und-jauchenaroma-570652.html
• http://www.itsweb.org/jsp/en/newsdetail/selectedid_181.jsp
• http://fs.design.udk-berlin.de/~mode/modepublikationweb2.pdf page 105
• http://www.gcifragrancebusiness.com/speakers/christophe_laudamiel
• http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124277733367437141.html
• http://www.nyas.org/Events/SCDetail.aspx?cid=d6b24906-6500-41da-ad4a-8f9ffae5670a
• http://www.nyas.org/Publications/Media/PodcastDetail.aspx?cid=21cd4d7d-ee0b-4db2-953e-8ddaa6f2abd4
• http://www.esomar.org/index.php/fragrance-09-programme-keynote-christophe-laudamiel.html
• http://www.rmanyc.org/events/load/635
• http://www.perfumeintelligence.co.uk/library/perfume/perfumers/data/Laudamiel.htm

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