Christophe Laudamiel

Christophe Laudamiel is a highly skilled French perfumer and co-founder of the creative studio DreamAir in New York. With more than twenty years of experience in the fragrance industry, he has collaborated with some of the most prestigious companies, including Procter & Gamble, Fragrance Resources, and International Flavors & Fragrances (IFF).

Laudamiel’s passion for chemistry and fragrance creation began at an early age after he won the French National Chemistry Olympiad in 1986. He studied mathematics and physics at Lycée Blaise Pascal in Clermont-Ferrand and earned a master’s degree in chemistry from the European Higher Institute of Chemistry in Strasbourg, France. He continued his research as a lecturer at Procter & Gamble, teaching chemistry and beginning a PhD program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1991. However, he left the program after one year to become a teaching assistant in chemistry at Harvard University.

In 1994, Laudamiel joined the Procter & Gamble Creative Perfumery School in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, where he studied perfumery under chief perfumer Allan McRitchie and senior perfumer Christine Caën. He earned a master’s degree in perfumery in 1997 at the Procter & Gamble European Center in Brussels, Belgium, under chief perfumer Robert Lecoq and senior perfumers Catherine Ganal and Hugo Denut. He was soon promoted to senior perfumer by master perfumer Raphael Trujillo, who was also the main mentor of Victor Mills.

In 1999, Laudamiel received the Procter & Gamble Special Recognition Award for his work in fragrance creation, particularly for soft fabric applications and for his discoveries of new molecules and fragrance technologies. He then briefly studied fine fragrance creation with master perfumer Pierre Bourdon between 1999 and 2000 before joining International Flavors & Fragrances in Manhattan in 2000. There, he worked alongside fragrance legends Carlos Benaïm, Sophia Grojsman, and Pierre Wargnye, further refining his craft.