Since a very early age, Julien found in creative arts a way of communicating his feelings and thoughts. He loved to paint, to draw, to design and create costumes for theater and puppets. But it was only after graduating from business school that he discovered what would become his passion and profession.

When the famous perfumer Pierre Bourdon (who created Cool Water by Davidoff, Dolce Vita by Dior, Féminité du Bois by Shiseido and many more) met Julien, he instinctively discerned his sensibility and his potential to become a perfumer. He offered Julien to become his master. During 3 years of intensive training program, Pierre shared with him his creation philosophy, his techniques, his passion. This encounter with Pierre Bourdon turned Julien’s life upside-down.

“The aim of a creation is to cause an emotion” 

Julien’s inspiration always comes from an encounter; whether it is a person, a song, a sentence in a book, or a place. From those encounters Julien extracts sensations that will become the base of the story he has been creating in his mind. “I always take notes when I am inspired by something, just like an author taking notes on from his everyday life in order to use them in his next script” he declares. “Sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night with a new idea I just dreamed about. When this happens, I feel like rushing to the lab and creating it right away!”