Jean-Charles
Niel
Jean-Charles Niel was a French perfumer, one of three noses — alongside Gérard Goupy and Yves Tanguy, both in-house at Lancôme — credited with creating Magie Noire (1978), the house's celebrated dark, animalic chypre.
- Earliest in our catalog
- Magie Noire, 1978
- In our catalog
- 1 fragrances
Magie NoireArtists in Conversation
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
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
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