Christophe Laudamiel

Christophe Laudamiel is a master perfumer, scent sculptor, composer, lecturer, performer, writer, osmocurator (perfume historian) and chemist champion. French national, he works out of his DreamAir studios in New York City. He is a polyglot of scent language as he creates for all types of media: from sensual fine fragrances for large beauty brands as well as for fabric softeners Lenor® or Azul/In The Spotlight by Mieussy-Tokyo, to atmospheres and scent sculptures for hotels and retail spaces, scent stories for oNotes and oPhones and conceptual olfactory art displayed in museums or galleries. He is the only perfumer represented by art galleries (Dillon/NYC, .mianki/Berlin) including 6 solo shows in 4 years. He is the founder of the Academy of Perfumery and Aromatics, a not-for-profit 501c3 organization based in New York City to promote education about Perfumery in the United States.

Christophe has created for Houses such as Abercrombie & Fitch, Clinique, Tom Ford, Michael Kors, Humiecki & Graef, Estée Lauder, Ralph Lauren, Nest and Ray Matts Fragrances. With partner of 12 years Christoph Hornetz, he has designed Air Sculpture® scents for such places as the Americano and Langham Place-5th-Ave hotels NYC, Armani and Emporio Armani, Azul by Mieussy Tokyo, Babochka (St Petersburg), Belstaff, Bliss spas, Coen Tokyo, Cordis hotels Hong Kong, Han Sung-Mercedes South Korea, Jazz Cafe (Milan), Nuo Hotel China, Cesare Paciotti. Christophe authored and managed the 30+ scents for the first ScentOpera (NYC and Bilbao Guggenheim Museums, 2009). He co-created the 12 controversial scents for Garden of Addiction exposed at the Grasse Perfume Museum. In 2013, he has been the subject of the first solo shows strictly devoted to olfactory art in a main street gallery in Manhattan, ever: Phantosmia (Dillon Gallery, 2012), of which 3 scents were Senior Curators' Choice at Art Miami 2012, followed by Iconosms 2013 and Fantastical 2014. He is also represented by Mianki Gallery in Berlin, Germany (Emotions 2014, Reconstruction 2015). To note are also his scent-track for book and movie Perfume (by Patrick Süskind, for Thierry Mugler, 2006), Air Sculpture® moods for the WEF in Davos, an Elton John Black#4 candle and a Jason Wu Orchid Rain candle, the Orchidelirium cologne for the Royal Botanicals (London), and olfactory retrospectives and shows inside the EU Parliament (Brussels, 2012, 2013, 2014). He displayed 2 self-alternating scents for the Istanbul MoMA Biennale 2012 and graciously created a permanent scent track for the Factory for the Blind (Brooklyn NY).

Avant-gardist, he gives keynote speeches at renowned institutions such as Harvard and Columbia Universities, the French Embassies and the Universi