But Fontaine is also an independent nose who puts himself out to tender to create perfumes for other luxury brands, including Jean-Louis Scherrer, Lubin and Worth.
Artist and composer Paul Schütze has sought to create perfumes based on personal memories of storms and old books, while Louis Vuitton's CEO Michael Burke has said he wants to company to move towards the creation of "artisanal fragrance that harks back to the ways they used to be conceived of and purchased".
One of one of the world's leading manufacturers of fragrances and flavorings is using IBM's AI to create perfumes based on digital fragrance models.
She writes passionately about our emotional connection with scent, its powers of transcendence and her mission to create perfumes that are the antithesis of overly chemical, mass-produced fragrances.
Rochas was a lost fashion name, a company known mostly for the creation of the guêpière (a long-line girdle that smoothed the curves of women like Marlene Dietrich) and, more enduringly, for creating perfume that arrived in a pale pink box decorated in black lace.
Agneta concentrated on the perfume factory in the following years, and collaborated with the Delft porcelain manufacturer De Koninklijke Porceleyne Fles, which created perfume bottles for her products.
Then Kelly took the plunge, leaving her auto industry job and moved to Tucson, AZ, an area she felt was conducive to creating perfumes and where she could try out her concept.
Although she doesn't use her smells library to create commercial perfume (nor does she wear perfume or deodorant), she has teamed up with International Flavors & Fragrances Inc (IFF), a huge chemical-perfume company which makes the molecules that go into perfumes, cleaning products and food products.
Finally, so the fragrance would always be with her, she commissioned the monks at the Monastery of the Annunciation, known for their pharmaceutical skills, to figure out how to extract the essence of violets and create a perfume just for her.
