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Poll Results: Who is the best perfumer?

 
  • 11% (7)
    Jacques Polge
  • 10% (6)
    Maurice Roucel
  • 10% (6)
    Ernest Beaux
  • 0% (0)
    Calice Becker
  • 28% (17)
    Jacques Guerlain
  • 3% (2)
    Jean-Paul Guerlain
  • 3% (2)
    Francis Kurkdjian
  • 0% (0)
    Henri Robert
  • 5% (3)
    Christopher Sheldrake
  • 27% (16)
    Other (List the perfumer below)
59 Total Votes  
post #1 of 40
1/28/12 at 6:49pm
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Who is the best perfumer of all time from this list?
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post #2 of 40
1/28/12 at 7:18pm
I'd add JC Ellena and Roja Dove. I haven't voted yet but I'd pick Roja Dove simply because he made Puredistance M. Otherwise probably Calice Becker for her work on the By Kilian line.
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post #3 of 40
1/28/12 at 7:44pm
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I simply can't choose.
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post #4 of 40
1/28/12 at 8:25pm
I hope this doesn't come off condescending, but it's childish.

That said Edmond Roudnitska is the best perfumer of all time :P
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post #5 of 40
1/28/12 at 10:22pm
i voted guerlain, but i think it really should be coty.
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post #6 of 40
1/28/12 at 10:27pm
Can't choose one as there are so many excellent ones IMO.
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post #7 of 40
1/28/12 at 10:37pm
I know Chanel's frags are kind of safe and boring, but they have had the same designer for all 8 frags, and he did a very very nice job - going from Anateus overPlatinum Egoiste, Egoiste and to Allure Homme, and Edition Blanche, so he's my choice
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post #8 of 40
1/28/12 at 11:13pm
Pierre-François-Pascal Guerlain. The oldest innovator in the 1820s. He created a real perfume house with a REAL pedigree, no fanciful tales about aristocratic perfumers.

That being said, I would go with Ernest Daltroff of Caron.
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post #9 of 40
1/28/12 at 11:56pm
Whoever concocted my sacred Havana. Anyone know who that person is?
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post #10 of 40
1/29/12 at 12:44am
Jacques Guerlain, with no hesitation. I'm happy to see the voting agrees.

He composed L'Heure Bleue, Mitsouko, Shalimar, Après l'Ondèe, Mouchoir de Monsieur, and Vol de Nuit. Who else will ever make so many perfumes that are still seen as masterpieces after 100 years? No one else has and no one ever will again.
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post #11 of 40
1/29/12 at 2:05am
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Originally Posted by rubegon View Post

Jacques Guerlain, with no hesitation. I'm happy to see the voting agrees.

He composed L'Heure Bleue, Mitsouko, Shalimar, Après l'Ondèe, Mouchoir de Monsieur, and Vol de Nuit. Who else will ever make so many perfumes that are still seen as masterpieces after 100 years? No one else has and no one ever will again.

You forgot to mention Djedi, Sous le Vent and a few others
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post #12 of 40
1/29/12 at 2:41am
Chose "Other" : Nicolas Mamounas (the creator of my current favourite Macassar by Rochas)
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post #13 of 40
1/29/12 at 2:48am
Classics galore - Jacques Guerlain !.
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post #14 of 40
1/29/12 at 2:54am
Francois Coty and Vincent Roubert
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post #15 of 40
1/29/12 at 3:42am
Yes Ernest Daltroff should be included.

I voted for Jacques Guerlain the man was GOD!
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post #16 of 40
1/29/12 at 5:00am
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Why was the post moved? I feel that this is a post/poll that would be educational... Oh well...
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post #17 of 40
1/29/12 at 5:05am
Jacques Guerlain, no question.
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post #18 of 40
1/29/12 at 6:38am
I voted for other, namely: Roger Pellegrino
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post #19 of 40
1/29/12 at 7:31am
Claude Frayesse (Weil) and Sophia Grojsman (too many to mention) come to mind.
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post #20 of 40
1/30/12 at 5:55pm
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Originally Posted by mr. reasonable View Post

You forgot to mention Djedi, Sous le Vent and a few others

Only because I haven't had the opportunity to smell them yet! I hope to one day, but even based on the ones I know, JG is clearly the Yoda of perfumers.
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post #21 of 40
1/30/12 at 8:05pm
From the list Jacques Guerlain. Write in: Desmond Knox-Leet
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post #22 of 40
1/30/12 at 8:29pm
Basing it just off my pigeonholed taste in modern/contemporary masculine and unisex frags, I'd say my pick for my own personal favorite of all time is ............... Pierre Bourdon.

Or I could just be a dick and say Henry Creed.
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post #23 of 40
1/30/12 at 8:49pm
Jacques Guerlain (I call him "St.Jacques")
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post #24 of 40
2/1/12 at 1:23am
You forgot ALL of the best perfumers of 'all time': JC Ellena, Bernard Chant, Guy Robert, Patricia di Nicolai, E. Roudnitska, Dominique Ropion, and Germaine Cellier.

Please smell some of these perfumers' works; they are inspiring.
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post #25 of 40
2/1/12 at 5:14am
i love Maurice Roucel's perfumes, but i had to vote for Jacques Guerlain. Shalimar to me is Perfection
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post #26 of 40
2/1/12 at 7:05am
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J-C Ellena not even in the list? This is not on!!
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post #27 of 40
2/1/12 at 7:36am
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Originally Posted by Dorje123 View Post

I'd add JC Ellena and Roja Dove. I haven't voted yet but I'd pick Roja Dove simply because he made Puredistance M. Otherwise probably Calice Becker for her work on the By Kilian line.

The fragrances are issued under his name, but they are made by anonymous perfumers. Roja Dove is not an actual perfumer.

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For a variety of reasons:

Francois Coty
Edmond Roudnitska
Jean Carles
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post #28 of 40
2/1/12 at 8:27am
It is simply impossible for me to pick!
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post #29 of 40
2/1/12 at 10:42am
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Originally Posted by Hillaire View Post

You forgot ALL of the best perfumers of 'all time':...Bernard Chant...

Bernie is so underrated!
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post #30 of 40
2/1/12 at 12:31pm
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He composed L'Heure Bleue, Mitsouko, Shalimar, Après l'Ondèe, Mouchoir de Monsieur, and Vol de Nuit. Who else will ever make so many perfumes that are still seen as masterpieces after 100 years? No one else has and no one ever will again.

Do you know Coty ? He created the base of those fragrance just before him...
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post #31 of 40
2/1/12 at 12:46pm
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Originally Posted by Mon-Petit View Post

Do you know Coty ? He created the base of those fragrance just before him...


Of course - I know of Coty, and have read that he is the greatest perfumer of all time. However, almost none of his compositions have survived in a recognizable form to the present. The only one I know of is Knize Ten, a collaboration with Vincent Roubert, from what I have read. This is a classic, without a doubt, and its in my collection.

However, I can't judge his entire ouevre simply because it is no longer available - I assume the $15 versions available at the corner pharmacy bear no resemblance to the originals. I would love to be able to smell his perfumes, but since they seem to be lost to time, I name the best perfumer whose works are available today in more-or-less recognizable form.
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post #32 of 40
2/1/12 at 2:07pm
Guerlain
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post #33 of 40
2/1/12 at 2:37pm
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Originally Posted by Oupavoc View Post

Guerlain

Which one? Jacques or JP?
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post #34 of 40
2/2/12 at 8:14am
Roucel? Kurkdjian? Guerlain?

This question is invalid.
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post #35 of 40
2/2/12 at 10:32am
I cant say of all time but Dominique Ropion and Calice Becker are a couple of favourites
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post #36 of 40
2/4/12 at 7:35am
Other: Olivia Giacobetti
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post #37 of 40
2/5/12 at 2:11am
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Other: Edmond Roudnitska.
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post #38 of 40
2/5/12 at 12:26pm
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The fragrances are issued under his name, but they are made by anonymous perfumers. Roja Dove is not an actual perfumer.

Interesting. I often wondered if he was the actual "nose" or just the name, money, and prestige... but nothing seemed to confirm the statement. So when fragrances are released under the Puredistance name, is this is an example of a Brand, hiring a "scout," who in tern hires anonymous noses? Weird.

Is this also true of Gérald Ghislain of Histoires de Parfums? I would certainly give him props as a modern creator, but is he the nose or the "art director"/ entrepreneur of the house? (A Luca Turin review of 1804 states that "most HdP fragrances are composed by Sylvie Jourdet, professor of olfaction and perfumery accords at the ISIPCA in Versailles, and the vice president of the French Society of Perfumers.")

It all seems more difficult in the modern era, as if perfumery has taken the reverse route of the history of essential film collaborators (editors were nameless faces in the creation of meaning for half of the last century, but today are considered the right-hand man/woman of any director in creating a film.)
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post #39 of 40
5/6/12 at 7:57pm
how could one forget Pierre Bourdon
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post #40 of 40
7/1/12 at 4:59am
Michel Almairac and Jean-Paul Millet
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