Understanding a perfume material
Origin, facets, volatility and function: the four readings that allow you to exceed the simple pleasant impression.
Read the summary→Les Cahiers
of perfume.
First to feel. Understand afterwards. Exact syntheses to discover the perfume without reducing it to a set of definitions.
Start the reading ↓Notre approcheIt is an essential concept.
It is an essential concept.
A landscape to keep it.
Each Public Paper clearly answers a question sought by students and curious. It connects the concept to a matter, a gesture or a landscape of the Lake Geneva and the Alps. Complete courses, corrected exercises, QCM and followed courses remain reserved at Circle.
Top, heart and base notes
Read the evolution of a perfume in time without turning the fragile pyramid into a rigid rule.
Read the summary→What is an olfactory accord?
Understand how several materials can make a new, consistent and memorable impression.
Read the summary→Volatility and longevity
Why some notes fly quickly while wood, resins and musks extend the story on the skin.
Read the summary→Extracting a plant’s scent
Distillation, expression, solvents and CO2: what each process reveals, transforms or preserves.
Read the summary→Layering: the art of association
Join two creations by respecting their architecture to make a third reading appear.
Read the summary→The main olfactory families
Flowered, wooded, ambreous, aromatic or hestered: signs to describe without closing.
Read the summary→Learning to smell and describe
A simple method to observe a material, remember its evolution and build a precise personal vocabulary.
Read the summary→Going through reading
à l’expérimentation.
The Circle Student Course extends these summaries with detailed files, guided exercises, QCM, subject studies, agreement building and progress in the workshop.
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