Make Joy with Scents

Since Ernest Shiftan times, in the 1960’s, IFF has a long history of training perfumery talents, many of whom have become scent legends, such as master perfumers Sophia Grojsman, Carlos Benaïm, Franc Schiet, Stephen Nicoll, Denis Maroney and many others. Today, IFF’s perfumery school welcomes trainees from every continent, to invent the perfumery of tomorrow. To know more, explore our Masters of Scent Design and Creation.

In 2000, IFF revolutionized the perfume creation industry, establishing a unique collaborative approach to scent creation. There is nothing like this team of stellar talents, working together across generations, borders, cultures, and categories.

Thanks to this powerful team approach, IFF harnesses the combined power of creativity, technical expertise, and passion, a common denominator to all our perfumers and scent experts.

The IFF La Fabrica takes its inspiration from the Andy Warhol factory. Its aim: bring together our artists of perfumery and artists from all fields, to think outside of the box and imagine the future of perfumery.

Forget « it can’t be done ». With the IFF La Fabrica, no ideas are out of bounds, when artists meet artists.

In 1983, Monique Remy created LMR in Grasse, with a vision to produce the highest quality naturals from around the world, with ethics and transparency at the core of LMR every action. Today, LMR is simply the natural signature of the greatest perfumes.

Modern perfumery was born towards the end of the 19th century, thanks to the discovery of groundbreaking molecules, providing perfumers with an infinite playground for scent creation. IFF made the perfume industry as we know it today, with legendary molecule signatures like Cashmeran, ISO E Super, Amber Xtreme and many more. Our ingredients portfolio continues to spearhead fragrance innovation, harnessing mindful fragrance design into ingredients processes, to minimize our environmental impact. To know more about our fragrance ingredients portfolio, visit here.

At IFF Botanical Gardens, based in Union Beach, New Jersey, in our R&D facility, IFF scientists study and recreate life’s most precious moments by leveraging plant science. Their inspiration?  Our Living Flower™ Technology, first created in 1985 by Dr Braja Mookerjee, to understand living nature. Today, thousands of different species are grown using traditional, hydroponic or aquaponic techniques, to discover the impact different growth environments have on their scents.

The purpose of the IFF Botanical Gardens? Discover sustainable scent solutions from biodiverse plants from around the world, capturing scents of life anywhere, anytime, for perfumers to capture in fragrances that make joy.