Nathalie Feisthauer

Nathalie Feisthauer grew up in Sarrebourg, Alsace-Lorraine in northeast France, and discovered her calling at sixteen when YSL Opium transformed her understanding of what fragrance could be.

She was the first trainee without a perfumery family background to be accepted at the Roure (now Givaudan) Perfumery School in Grasse in 1983, at the time a rare honour for an outsider.

She worked at Givaudan for twenty-five years (including a formative period at the New York office), then Symrise for six years, before founding her own studio LABscent in a converted art gallery in Montmartre in 2015.

She has created Putain des Palaces for Etat Libre d'Orange, Absinthe Boréale for Maison Crivelli, and Cow for Zoologist: a quietly radical, milky, heliotropic fragrance that became one of the brand's most warmly received releases.