France is a country that inspires with its tastes and aromas. People come here to master the high culinary art and the intricacies of sommelier work. But France is also a perfume industry with its institutions and famous perfumers. The best perfumery schools of this country of aromas will be discussed today.

The country of Voltaire, Coco Chanel and the Michelin guide is a popular destination for those who want to change their profession. People come here to enter the Sorbonne, learn the profession of a chef at Le Cordon Bleu or sew fashion collections at Istituto Marangoni. Much less popular is French perfumery education, and in vain: in addition to reputable schools that take five students a year and make an incredible amount of demands on them, there are many smaller courses that are ready to accept everyone. We decided to figure it out and figured out where to go for those who want to change their profession once and for all, and where for simple curious people who are satisfied with being a perfumer for one day. And, of course, we did not ignore the Russian master classes - so that you have a place to practice.

The most famous perfume institute in the world was founded in 1970 by the great-grandson of the founder of the House of Guerlain, Jean-Jacques Guerlain. Twenty students are admitted every year. To enter, you must have a higher education in chemistry: “Chemistry helps to understand how the components of perfume react with each other,” says ISIPCA graduate perfumer Cecile Zarokyan.

The training lasts two years, after which students have an internship in a perfume house. In the first year, they study analytical chemistry, the technology of creating perfumes and cosmetics, skin biology and ecology, as well as notes and chords (about 500 smells in total). The second year is devoted to business processes. To pass exams and receive a diploma, you need to be prepared to spend more than a dozen hours in the institute's library.

Studying here is difficult, so after the first session, half of the students are eliminated. ISIPCA is the only open institute in the world that issues diplomas of international standard on obtaining additional education in the specialty "perfumer". The course costs 30,000 euros. The Edufrance organization, which issues grants for education in France, can help the Russians to slightly reduce this figure.

Guerlain is not the only cosmetic house involved in the creation of the Perfume Institute. Givaudan and Mane have their own schools. But only employees of these companies can get an education there.

Perfume school at the Swiss perfume concern Givaudan is located on the outskirts of Paris. It was founded under the direction of perfumer Jean Carlet in 1946 and offers a three-year training program. The school receives hundreds of applications each year, of which only five are selected. They accept here without a higher chemical education and do not take a single eurocent for training.

The founder of the school, Jean Carle, developed a unique system of olfactory research, consisting of two diagrams: for natural elements and for synthetic ones. Graphs display the similarity and contrast of raw materials. The method, named after Carle, remains the industry standard and the basis for research conducted by students of the Givaudan Perfumery School. Graduates of the school return to work in a new capacity, replenishing the staff of the company's perfumers (now Givaudan employs about 70 "noses"). There is enough work to do: Calvin Klein, Bijan, Tom Ford, Marc Jacobs, Ralph Lauren, Hugo Boss and Paco Rabanne regularly turn to Givaudan for new fragrances.

This relatively young school was founded in 2002. Each year she accepts twelve students for an intensive nine-month course. It lasts from February to December with a break for summer holidays in July-August. Teaching takes place in English and consists of 972 hours, of which 324 are devoted to lectures. They are read either by perfumers or technical experts. The rest of the time is devoted to practical work and visits to factories, laboratories and gardens in which flowers are grown for fragrances. Tuition costs 12,000 euros. Before admission, you must pass the entrance exams for the general education program, pass the aroma recognition test and an interview to assess motivation.

The school also has short summer courses for beginners and advanced perfumers, programs in aromatherapy and the training of technical assistants. Short perfume courses The lack of specialized education and a couple of extra years is not a reason to give up on a dream. You can also join the profession in short courses that last from several hours to several months and allow you to briefly plunge into the atmosphere of a perfumery school. A large selection of all kinds of trainings and master classes is offered by the Parisian school Cinquieme Sens (which translates as “fifth sense”). Education of students of all levels of training is conducted in English or French. Despite the shortness of the courses, the school boasts eminent graduates: for example, Vero Kern, perfumer and founder of the Vero Profumo brand, studied here. The shortest master class (introduction to the world of fragrances) lasts three hours and costs 280 euros. The longest one - nine days - is devoted to perfumery raw materials and costs 6,840. The Gallimard perfume house also has introductory lessons. They last from two to five hours. Future perfumers spend this time in mini-groups. Each participant gets access to a perfume organ containing over a hundred ingredients. Students first study perfume notes, and then they create the fragrance themselves. At the end of the master class, participants receive a diploma and 100 ml of their own perfume. Similar master classes offer Fragonard And Molinard. They are mainly aimed at tourists. In visitors, such entertainment often awakens a desire to further study the art of perfumery.

In Russia, there are also courses for those who want to change their profession. The School of Perfumers in St. Petersburg regularly runs a distance nine-month course. The cost of three stages of training for three months each is 150,000 rubles. The course includes lectures, consultations via messenger and educational materials. The art of perfumery has been taught for a long time and thoroughly at the Anna Agurina Perfumery School. The cost of the course is 308,000 rubles. After completing each of the four levels, a certificate from the Grasse Institute is issued, which indicates the number of hours passed. If you are looking for courses for the soul, there are such at the Natural Perfumery school. They are led by biochemist and perfumer Anna Zvorykina. Each level of education here costs from 11 thousand rubles. To learn such perfumery, you will have to come to Moscow. You can also take a short course on creating fragrances for personal use in St. Petersburg - with Natalia Svetlaya. The program is called “Your Own Perfumer” and costs 60,000 rubles.

Do I need to go to Paris to become a perfumer?

Ekaterina Khmelevskaya, perfume critic, perfume collector: “There is no professional perfumery education in Russia and there is no work for such specialists. There is an ISIPCA institute and a Givaudan school, but they are located in France. The rest: Galimards, Fragonards, Molinars and others are a fun attraction for tourists. Perfumery education involves a foundation in the form of several years of studying organic chemistry. Only then can you get a perfumery education. You can’t become a real perfumer in a week or three months.”

Irina Vaganova, perfumer, founder of the Perfumery Fashion House: “In most cases, you should go to the perfumery university to study if you want to work in production. That is why, upon admission to higher educational institutions of the perfume industry, education in the field of biology, chemistry or pharmacology is required. In order to become a private perfumer, it is not necessary to go to France or other countries that have specialized perfume institutes.

So, in Russia there is also a school of perfumers - in St. Petersburg. Its peculiarity is that it is aimed at the revival of private perfumery in Russia. The program of the school consists of three courses: perfumery art history, development of olfactory memory and the practice of creating perfumes under the guidance of a perfumer. In addition, the program provides a block that helps to start independent work.

Natural perfumery is very different from the one that is presented on the shelves of most stores. In the production of natural fragrances, only natural precious extracts are used, which are extracted from plants, flowers, trees.

What fragrance do you wear?

This fragrance is likely like most commercial fragrances that are mass produced, packaged and shipped around the world in millions of units.

I suppose that you are tired of the monotonous mass market and "flat" synthetic smells in beautiful bottles? And you are looking for a new solution?

Are you madly in love with fragrances and dream of learning how to create your own author's perfumes?

Do you feel that perfumery is your calling and want to turn your favorite hobby from a hobby into a professional skill?

You are not alone in your endeavors!

My perfume studio receives many letters from the same connoisseurs of fragrances, asking to teach, suggest, help…

And I tell, help, provide high-quality raw materials for work and spend small ones for those who live in our city or who can come to Moscow.

Only the majority of people who want to learn to be a perfumer remain only those who want to, and their dream of becoming a perfumer remains just a dream ...

Agree, not everyone can afford to quit their job and go to study in Moscow (not to mention Europe). Someone is afraid that he will not succeed, someone is stopped by the monetary aspect, someone is not knowing a foreign language (if they go to study in Europe), and someone simply cannot leave their family and abandon their usual way of life.

And dreams do come true! And I found a solution how to help those who wish to realize what they want.

The decision, as it usually happens, lay on the surface ... Skype! I can teach you privately via Skype!

Perfumer's Workshop is the only perfume course in Russia today that exists online.

Online training makes it possible for absolutely everyone to learn to be a perfumer, no matter where you are. Now you don't have to quit your job, leave your family and follow your dream to a foreign city or country. It is enough to allocate some space for a training laboratory at home (a regular table will do) and turn on Skype.

Perfumery course "Perfumer's Workshop"

About the Perfumer's Workshop course

Like fine wine, subtle differences can be found in the same flavor extracted from the same plant, depending on the soil conditions and climate of the country in which it was grown.

And this means that natural perfumery is not an exact science, but has a creative alchemical process similar to the process of creating the world…

And of course, this is an unusually bewitching art form that requires the presence of a master during the transfer of knowledge.

In our training courses for perfumers, we will explore the art of natural perfumery - the creation of fragrances from plant extracts.

You will gain a general understanding of the history of perfume art, the structure of fragrance, the classification of fragrances, safety rules, learn how to develop your own formulas and create your own fragrances, and if you wish, you can create your own brand and open a profitable business.

Course objective:

The aim of the perfumery workshop "Perfumer's Workshop" is to expand the possibilities for learning the art of perfumery in order to be able to create your own fragrances using quality natural raw materials.

This course is unique and different from any perfume course you might come across as it focuses on the art of perfumery rather than chemistry.

In these perfumer courses, you will discover high-quality natural extracts, their structure and sound.

Get to know your sense of smell, learn how to build chords and develop formulas.

Learn the architecture of perfumes and the traditional methods used to create fragrances and put your knowledge into practice.

Explore the history of perfumery from all times and geographical areas. You will learn the safety requirements when working with natural ingredients and learn to respect and protect the environment.

Who is teaching the course?

My name is , I am a perfumer, founder and owner of the perfume studio Aromaobraz. She devoted most of her life to working with people and counseling in psychology, including the use of aromatherapy programs in practice.

She studied perfumery in Grasse, in the south of France. I am an expert of Channel 1, magazines "Lisa", "Beauty and Health", "Waiting for a baby".

I love fragrances and everything related to them. And everything in our life is connected with them. I rejoice when I see how qualitatively the life of people changes when they let fragrant miracles and faith in themselves into their lives.

Lesson 1: The History of Perfumery

- Ancient Egypt
- Ancient Greece
- The Roman Empire
— Arab East
— India, China, Japan
— Medieval Europe
- Age of Enlightenment
- At the dawn of modernity
— Perfumery in the 20th-21st century

Lesson 2: Mechanisms of smell. Scheme of the structure of the olfactory system

— Introduction to the physiology of smell
- Olfactory functions
- Exercise for the development of the sense of smell
— Olfactory map and perfume diary
- Practical work.

Lesson 3: Basic rules for work and methods of extraction in the production of raw materials

— Safety precautions
– Methods of extraction in the production of raw materials
– Cold pressing (pressing method)
– Steam distillation (distillation method)
– Extraction with selective solvents (when obtaining absolute and concrete)
— CO2 extraction
— Enfleurage
– Maceration
- Practical work

Lesson 4: Basic Fragrance Families

— Citrus
- gourmet or spicy
— Fruit
— Floral and absolute
– Herbs
– Woody
- Resins and balms
- Practical work

Lesson 5: Aroma Classification

— Citrus
— Floral
— Fruit
— Wine glass
— Chypre
— Leather
– Woody
- Oriental or Oriental
— Spicy
- Practical work

Lesson 5: Aroma Structure and Concentration

– Olfactory pyramid: top, middle and base notes
— Cologne, eau de toilette, eau de parfum, perfume.
— Creation of fragrance chords
– Testing and exercises
- Practical work

Lesson 6: Selecting a carrier base and developing a formula

- Alcohol, oil and solid base fragrance.
— Definition of the idea of ​​the future composition.
— Development of the formula and work with a perfume diary
- Practical work

Lesson 7: Developing and Presenting Your Own Perfume Art Project

– Choice of direction and formation of an idea
— Free creativity
— Presentation and defense of own project
- Exam
- Presentation of the certificate

Duration of training: 3 months

The advantages of online and offline training in the perfume studio "Aromaobraz"

Online training for a perfumer:

Comfort. You study in a relaxed home environment, sitting in your favorite chair. What could be better?

Convenient schedule. You don't have to conform to anyone. Classes are held individually at a convenient time for you.

Saving money. With distance learning, you do not need to spend money on travel and rent in another city. I'm sure you'll find a better use for your money.

Saving time. The journey to and from the perfume shop (even if you can find perfume courses in your city) can sometimes take longer than the session itself. But what do you care about that?

Without interruption from the main activity. In order to master a new profession, it is not at all necessary to abandon the old one. You can work and study with me at the same time. This will allow you to learn new skills in a calm mode for yourself, without stress and fear of the unknown.

Offline perfumer training:

For those who wish to study, being present in person, such an opportunity is also provided. Classes are held in the studio according to a schedule that is convenient for you, which we agree in advance.

Another important, in my opinion, advantage of studying to become a perfumer with me, both offline and online, is individual lessons.

Usually courses of perfumers are held in groups. From an economic point of view, it is beneficial for both the teacher and the student. However, in practice it is rarely possible to select a group of students with the same level of knowledge. This means that the perfumer who teaches you will have to adapt to some average indicators.

If you do not reach them, then it will be difficult for you to study.

If your level of knowledge is above the average for the group, then you will simply be bored in the lessons. Only individual training allows you to get the maximum knowledge in the allotted period of time. This is exactly what happens in my classes.

All the knowledge gained, you can immediately put into practice.

For each course on the art of perfumery, I have developed not only a theoretical part, in the form of a convenient and understandable methodological guide, but also a special set that contains all the necessary tools and raw materials for creating fragrances (various extracts, bottles, pipettes, base oils and alcohol , wax, blotters).

You do not have to waste time studying the many offers that the Internet is full of today, spend a lot of money buying often not the best quality components and experience disappointment. Because 100% success in creating a fragrance depends on the quality of the extracts used, and if the quality leaves much to be desired, a good fragrance cannot be obtained.

Therefore, I took care of you and selected the best and highest quality ingredients that you will need in the process of creating your first fragrances.

The courses also provide training in the perfume business (optional).

As a rule, in perfumery courses, students are taught exclusively the art of perfumery. But I understand that this is not enough for many of you, so I went further. In the "Perfumer's Workshop" I will teach you not only to create fragrances, but also to build your business on it.

In the business course, you will learn:

— how to assemble a team of like-minded people and register your company

How to create and promote your own brand

— where to get beautiful packaging for your products

- where to look for customers and how to communicate with them

How to build a loyal customer base and expand your business

- as well as a lot of other useful information that will definitely come in handy for you in the future

After completing the Perfumer Workshop course, you will be able to:

– create unique fragrances for yourself at a professional level

– to create and convey to people their own worldview through aroma

– work in the perfume business as a perfumer, consultant or critic

— find clients and work to order, getting good money for their work

– create and promote your own brand, possibly changing fashion and history

Before training, we always talk, and, based on your goals and plans for the future, I help you decide and choose one of the options that suits you and will be most useful for solving your problems.

Option 1 - "Initial"

— A palette of natural ingredients (20 pure, undiluted extracts, 5 ml each)

Orange
Lemon
Bergamot
Petit grain bigarade
grapefruit pink

Cinnamon
Ginger
Black pepper

Ylang Ylang
Violet absolute
Rose Turkish absolute

Atlas cedar
Pink tree
Juniper

Labdanum
Incense
Myrrh
oak moss
Vetiver
Benzoin

- Alcohol (300 ml)

– Coconut oil (300 ml)

— Violet for test samples (50 pcs. 3 ml each)

— Test tubes for test samples (50 pcs. 1 ml each)

— Pipettes (100 pcs.)

— Vials for finished compositions (10 pcs. 10 ml each and 10 pcs. 5 ml each for alcohol compositions; 20 pcs. 6 ml for oil compositions)

— Stickers

- Toolkit

Option 2 - "Professional"

— Palette of natural ingredients (50 pure, undiluted extracts of 10 ml)

Orange
Lemon
Bergamot
Petit grain bigarade
grapefruit pink
Lemongrass
Lime
Mandarin green

Cinnamon
Cassia
Ginger
Black pepper
Cardamom
Nutmeg
Carrot

Basil
Marjoram
Sage
Lavender
Rosemary
palmarosa

Peach
Strawberry
Pear
Apple
A pineapple

Ylang Ylang
pink geranium
Violet absolute
Rose Turkish absolute
Lotus pink absolute
Mimosa absolute
Jasmine absolute
Neroli absolute
Iris absolute
Osmanthus absolute

Atlas cedar
virginian cedar
Pink tree
juniper berries
Pine
Cypress
sandalwood

Labdanum
Incense
Myrrh
oak moss
Vetiver
Patchouli
Peruvian balm

- Alcohol (1000 ml)

– Coconut oil (1000 ml)

— Violet for test samples (100 pcs. 3 ml each)

— Test tubes for test samples (100 pcs. 1 ml each)

— Pipettes (300 pcs.)

— Vials for finished compositions (50 pieces of 30 ml, 50 pieces of 10 ml and 50 pieces of 5 ml for alcohol compositions; 50 of 6 ml for oil compositions)

— Stickers

- Toolkit

– Accompaniment and consultations within 3 months after training

Option 3 - "Business"

— A palette of natural ingredients (100 pure, undiluted extracts of 15 ml each)

orange sweet
orange bitter
wild orange
Lemon
Bergamot
Petit grain bigarade
Petit grain sur fleurs
grapefruit pink
grapefruit red
grapefruit white
Lemongrass
Lime
Mandarin green
Mandarin red
Mandarin yellow

Cinnamon
Cassia
Ginger
Almond
Black pepper
pink pepper
Cardamom
Vanilla absolute
Coffee
cocoa absolute
Absolute tonka bean
carnation absolute
Nutmeg
Nutmeg absolute
Carrot

Basil
Marjoram
Sage
Lavender
Rosemary
palmarosa
Thyme
Sagebrush
Mint
Chamomile Roman
Verbena
Melissa
Immortelle

Peach
Strawberry
Pear
Apple
A pineapple
Apricot
Raspberries
Mango
Blackcurrant absolute

Ylang Ylang
Ylang-ylang absolute
pink geranium
Violet absolute
Rose Turkish absolute
Rose Otto white absolute
Rose Morocco Absolute
Rose of May absolute
Lotus pink absolute
Lotus white absolute
Mimosa absolute
Jasmine absolute
Neroli absolute
Iris absolute
Osmanthus absolute
Tuberose absolute
Champaka

Atlas cedar
virginian cedar
Himalayan cedar
Cedar white absolute
Pink tree
juniper berries
juniper leaves
Pine
Cypress
Cypress blue
sandalwood
Amyris
siamese tree
guaiac tree

I have workshops of a new format, with webinars and distribution of materials.
This course is about olfactory literacy, not about “becoming a perfumer”. We will learn to smell and think about what we smell, not mix. If you want not to miss the next set of courses - the surest way - there is a field at the bottom of the page "enter your email to subscribe", drive in the email there.

In addition, always at your service

I have been running natural perfumery workshops for about 10 years, so the program has been tried and tested many times and is effective. Here, on the beauty insider, Masha wrote about her experience of learning from my workshops very clearly and well. But she writes about Elina's training on ladymail.

The goal of my workshops is to make fragrances a part of your life, a natural and beautiful part of it, bringing harmony in the constant stress of modern life.

REVIEWS FROM WORKSHOP PARTICIPANTS

Feedback from the participants of the master classes on how the training took place and what they got as a result.

I thank all my students! Communication with you gave me pleasure and a lot of pleasant emotions! I wish you success!

“I went to Anna to organize my chaos and learn how to deal with aromatic materials in a meaningful way. The first step is the basics, safety precautions, the basic rules for working with EOs, their behavior on the skin, verbalization of olfactory experience. The lessons are good and well structured. The most interesting for me at the first stage were the conversations about the physiology of smell, about physical and chemical processes in solutions, about the archetypes of smells and the area of ​​the metaphorical. The most important thing is that it is simply pleasant to study with Anna, and therefore I am going to go to the next two steps in the future.”

Galina Anni, author of natural perfumes, owner of Sweet Sixties salon

“The very approach to learning and the presentation of the material, in my opinion, are very competently and thoughtfully compiled. This is, firstly, systematized and reasonably dosed information, and secondly, a course of practical exercises and personal experiments that allow students to smoothly gain experience from simple to more complex. No sharp jumps and dashing gallops across Europe, which is very important.
And perhaps most importantly: Anna teaches creative thinking, of course, to the extent that it can be taught.

About the fact that Anna herself, in addition to being a real Master of her craft, is also a very charming and interesting person, I won’t tell you 🙂 You can see for yourself, so to speak, already in the learning process.”

Alla Chernova, author of natural perfumes

“If someone has been eyeing essential oils for a long time, or wondering how it is done at all - perfume! - Feel free to go and learn. Even if you don’t become a perfumer, just mixing oils will give you a lot of pleasure and good mood 🙂
And I would also like to say a couple of warm words about the group, of which I was a part of this training. Here, as with honey: either only light, thin and in every sense beautiful people begin to get involved in perfumery, or perfumery makes them so. I became richer for several new acquaintances and I want to thank everyone: for pleasant communication, goodwill and cordiality. You are beautiful, gentlemen, future perfumers! "

Snezhana susanne_m, creator of a line of natural cosmetics from Canada

“It has always been important for me that the teacher does not chew for me and does not feed me from a spoon, but shows me where to go. He took the first steps along the road with me, but did not lead me by the hand. Gave information and left room for thought. And it seems to me that Anna is perfect in this sense.
It seems that she didn’t do any sacred things, but she began to perceive the world of smells in a different way. Definitely different. Consciously. And even store perfumes. Now I'm trying to understand even those perfumes that I rejected outright. Somehow imperceptibly formed a different approach to smells. Look, I'll love anise. Even before the lectures and exercises, I had a couple of samples of natural perfumes. So, 4 out of 5 smelled about the same to me. And now I suddenly realized - they are all DIFFERENT. And it’s not clear to me how I didn’t notice this before - well, different, after all!

Olga

“I went to study. I set off with a heavy heart: I always believed that all these heart and plume notes, green and blue scents were the inventions of sophisticated perfumers, that it was absolutely impossible for an ordinary person to understand and feel this.
And at the very first lessons, I almost without a miss determine when this or that aroma will open and I find traces of clean, but poor old women in the rose.
At the second stage, we mix the components and read the finished mixtures. Until now, I wonder how you can decompose perfume into separate components, like some kind of salad, but, come on, we did it!
It's a wonderful, wonderful, wonderful pastime!"

France is a country that inspires with its tastes and aromas. People come here to master the high culinary art and the intricacies of sommelier work. But France is also a perfume industry with its institutions and famous perfumers. The best perfumery schools of this country of aromas will be discussed today.

The country of Voltaire, Coco Chanel and the Michelin guide is a popular destination for those who want to change their profession. People come here to enter the Sorbonne, learn the profession of a chef at Le Cordon Bleu or sew fashion collections at Istituto Marangoni. Much less popular is French perfumery education, and in vain: in addition to reputable schools that take five students a year and make an incredible amount of demands on them, there are many smaller courses that are ready to accept everyone. We decided to figure it out and figured out where to go for those who want to change their profession once and for all, and where for simple curious people who are satisfied with being a perfumer for one day. And, of course, we did not ignore the Russian master classes - so that you have a place to practice.

The most famous perfume institute in the world was founded in 1970 by the great-grandson of the founder of the House of Guerlain, Jean-Jacques Guerlain. Twenty students are admitted every year. To enter, you must have a higher education in chemistry: “Chemistry helps to understand how the components of perfume react with each other,” says ISIPCA graduate perfumer Cecile Zarokyan.

The training lasts two years, after which students have an internship in a perfume house. In the first year, they study analytical chemistry, the technology of creating perfumes and cosmetics, skin biology and ecology, as well as notes and chords (about 500 smells in total). The second year is devoted to business processes. To pass exams and receive a diploma, you need to be prepared to spend more than a dozen hours in the institute's library.

Studying here is difficult, so after the first session, half of the students are eliminated. ISIPCA is the only open institute in the world that issues diplomas of international standard on obtaining additional education in the specialty "perfumer". The course costs 30,000 euros. The Edufrance organization, which issues grants for education in France, can help the Russians to slightly reduce this figure.

Guerlain is not the only cosmetic house involved in the creation of the Perfume Institute. Givaudan and Mane have their own schools. But only employees of these companies can get an education there.

Perfume school at the Swiss perfume concern Givaudan is located on the outskirts of Paris. It was founded under the direction of perfumer Jean Carlet in 1946 and offers a three-year training program. The school receives hundreds of applications each year, of which only five are selected. They accept here without a higher chemical education and do not take a single eurocent for training.

The founder of the school, Jean Carle, developed a unique system of olfactory research, consisting of two diagrams: for natural elements and for synthetic ones. Graphs display the similarity and contrast of raw materials. The method, named after Carle, remains the industry standard and the basis for research conducted by students of the Givaudan Perfumery School. Graduates of the school return to work in a new capacity, replenishing the staff of the company's perfumers (now Givaudan employs about 70 "noses"). There is enough work to do: Calvin Klein, Bijan, Tom Ford, Marc Jacobs, Ralph Lauren, Hugo Boss and Paco Rabanne regularly turn to Givaudan for new fragrances.

This relatively young school was founded in 2002. Each year she accepts twelve students for an intensive nine-month course. It lasts from February to December with a break for summer holidays in July-August. Teaching takes place in English and consists of 972 hours, of which 324 are devoted to lectures. They are read either by perfumers or technical experts. The rest of the time is devoted to practical work and visits to factories, laboratories and gardens in which flowers are grown for fragrances. Tuition costs 12,000 euros. Before admission, you must pass the entrance exams for the general education program, pass the aroma recognition test and an interview to assess motivation.

The school also has short summer courses for beginners and advanced perfumers, programs in aromatherapy and the training of technical assistants. Short perfume courses The lack of specialized education and a couple of extra years is not a reason to give up on a dream. You can also join the profession in short courses that last from several hours to several months and allow you to briefly plunge into the atmosphere of a perfumery school. A large selection of all kinds of trainings and master classes is offered by the Parisian school Cinquieme Sens (which translates as “fifth sense”). Education of students of all levels of training is conducted in English or French. Despite the shortness of the courses, the school boasts eminent graduates: for example, Vero Kern, perfumer and founder of the Vero Profumo brand, studied here. The shortest master class (introduction to the world of fragrances) lasts three hours and costs 280 euros. The longest one - nine days - is devoted to perfumery raw materials and costs 6,840. The Gallimard perfume house also has introductory lessons. They last from two to five hours. Future perfumers spend this time in mini-groups. Each participant gets access to a perfume organ containing over a hundred ingredients. Students first study perfume notes, and then they create the fragrance themselves. At the end of the master class, participants receive a diploma and 100 ml of their own perfume. Similar master classes offer Fragonard And Molinard. They are mainly aimed at tourists. In visitors, such entertainment often awakens a desire to further study the art of perfumery.

In Russia, there are also courses for those who want to change their profession. The School of Perfumers in St. Petersburg regularly runs a distance nine-month course. The cost of three stages of training for three months each is 150,000 rubles. The course includes lectures, consultations via messenger and educational materials. The art of perfumery has been taught for a long time and thoroughly at the Anna Agurina Perfumery School. The cost of the course is 308,000 rubles. After completing each of the four levels, a certificate from the Grasse Institute is issued, which indicates the number of hours passed. If you are looking for courses for the soul, there are such at the Natural Perfumery school. They are led by biochemist and perfumer Anna Zvorykina. Each level of education here costs from 11 thousand rubles. To learn such perfumery, you will have to come to Moscow. You can also take a short course on creating fragrances for personal use in St. Petersburg - with Natalia Svetlaya. The program is called “Your Own Perfumer” and costs 60,000 rubles.

Do I need to go to Paris to become a perfumer?

Ekaterina Khmelevskaya, perfume critic, perfume collector: “There is no professional perfumery education in Russia and there is no work for such specialists. There is an ISIPCA institute and a Givaudan school, but they are located in France. The rest: Galimards, Fragonards, Molinars and others are a fun attraction for tourists. Perfumery education involves a foundation in the form of several years of studying organic chemistry. Only then can you get a perfumery education. You can’t become a real perfumer in a week or three months.”

Irina Vaganova, perfumer, founder of the Perfumery Fashion House: “In most cases, you should go to the perfumery university to study if you want to work in production. That is why, upon admission to higher educational institutions of the perfume industry, education in the field of biology, chemistry or pharmacology is required. In order to become a private perfumer, it is not necessary to go to France or other countries that have specialized perfume institutes.

So, in Russia there is also a school of perfumers - in St. Petersburg. Its peculiarity is that it is aimed at the revival of private perfumery in Russia. The program of the school consists of three courses: perfumery art history, development of olfactory memory and the practice of creating perfumes under the guidance of a perfumer. In addition, the program provides a block that helps to start independent work.