Karine Chevallier

Graduated from ISIPCA in 1995, she was trained as a perfumer by the prestigious Mark Buxton at Haarmann & Reimer. In the year 2000, she decided to take a break and graduated with a Master’s in Marketing in the Luxury Industry, in addition to having work experience at Guerlain. But she felt nostalgic for perfumery and ended up opening the Paris headquarters of a small fragrance company based in Grasse. In 2005, confident in her success as a perfumer and thanks to Michel Roudnitska, who welcomed her into the group of independent perfumers within Art et Parfum, she created her own company OLFACTIVE DESIGN. Since then, she has worked for many brands, but also in artistic fields such as recreating the scent of the Chauvet cave, or creating a perfume for the globally famous illustrator and painter Enki Bilal for his exhibition at the Arts et Métiers museum in Paris. Passionate, in 2014 she decided to share her knowledge with young people and since then has taught perfumery to students at the Ecole Supèrieure du Parfum in Paris. In 2018, LONDON, a fragrance she created for Gallivant perfumes, was a finalist in the Art and Olfaction Awards.