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Isaac
Sinclair

Gin, guitar, and perfume

Isaac Sinclair is a perfumer born in New Zealand who grew up surrounded by the scent of forest and leaves.

Trained: Symrise
House: Symrise
Earliest in our catalog: Ganache Tonka, 2016
In our catalog: 2 fragrances · 2 houses

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Known for

Ganache Tonka

Silver Scent For Her

Isaac's story

The story

He met fragrance expert Michael Edwards in Auckland in 1999 and began training as a perfumer at Dragoco (now Symrise) in Paris in 2001, becoming an assistant to Maurice Roucel in 2004. Alongside perfumery, he produces a small-batch gin with friends, approaching its recipes almost like fragrance formulas, and performs as a guitarist and singer, drawing parallels between music and scent. After thirteen years based in São Paulo, and having joined Symrise's creation center in Brazil in 2019, he is now moving to Paris.

In their own words

How Isaac works

Signature

Precise, expressive compositions shaped by parallel creative pursuits in music and gin-making.

Scentsation editorial

Who Isaac composes for

2 houses, one hand

Fragrances credited to Isaac in our catalog, by house.

Jacques Bogart1

Zara1

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The composer of light

Francis Kurkdjian

Radiant luminosity and ethereal transparency. Kurkdjian's fragrances glow — they possess an inner light that makes them feel both airy and profound. His palette favors ambroxan, saffron, and delicate florals, composed with a musician's instinct for harmony.

234 creations

The architect of Chanel

Jacques Polge

Refined elegance and measured sophistication. Polge's compositions for Chanel embodied the house's aesthetic — never too much, never too little, always precisely right. His fragrances have the quiet authority of impeccable tailoring.

76 creations

The dynasty continues

Olivier Creed

Noble materials and classical structure. Creed fragrances are built around the finest natural ingredients — ambergris, royal water, hand-selected musks — composed in the traditional infusion method that has defined the house for centuries.

54 creations

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