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Céline
Barel

Self-taught passion, IFF-trained craft

Céline Barel is a perfumer at International Flavors and Fragrances (IFF), born and raised in Grasse without family ties to the industry, though she collected fragrance bottles as a child and interned at Chanel, Dior, and Vuitton.

Trained
IFF Perfumery School
House
IFF
Earliest in our catalog
Aroma Sun, 2005
In our catalog
34 fragrances · 16 houses
Céline's story

The story

She pursued olfactive training at IFF in Milan, studying raw materials after work hours before passing the company's internal competition to enter its perfumery school, training across the Netherlands, New York, Paris, and Grasse. Over a seventeen-year career she has created for Abercrombie & Fitch, Avon, Lancôme, and Loewe, as well as celebrity fragrances for David Beckham, Jessica Simpson, and Shawn Mendes, with a particular passion for decadent, opulent, sensual compositions and big white florals.

The career

2005–2026, in bottles

Their best-known launches in our catalog, by how many people have rated them.
Launches per year, 2005–2026Peak: 6 in 2020
20052026
In their own words

How Céline works

Signature

Decadent, opulent florals built with sensual richness, informed by early exposure to Chanel, Dior, and Louis Vuitton.

Scentsation editorial
Who Céline composes for

16 houses, one hand

Fragrances credited to Céline in our catalog, by house.

Scents of Wood7
Andrea Maack4
Donna Karan4
Aesop3
El Morocco2
Maison d'ETTO2
Lancôme2
+ 9 more houses
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