Karine Vinchon Spehner is a perfumer whose childhood in Normandy, shaped by her grandfather's biscuit shop and the region's apple orchards, sparked her curiosity about fragrance.
She trained at ISIPCA and began her career at Robertet under master perfumer Michel Almairac, going on to create for Amouage, L'Artisan Parfumeur, Memo Paris, and Brioni, including Amouage's Interlude Woman and Boundless. Her compositions favor generous, abundant natural raw materials, especially patchouli and vetiver, and she often draws on childhood memory and nature — her fragrance Tiger's Nest was inspired by a meeting at the Cinéhaïku short film festival in Gordes.
2010Memoir ManAmouage
2012Interlude WomanAmouage
20131888Xerjoff
2016Myths ManAmouage
2016Bracken WomanAmouage
2019Overture ManAmouage
2019ApolloniaXerjoff
2021BoundlessAmouageRich, ambery, and woody compositions built on generous quantities of natural patchouli and vetiver.
Scentsation editorialFragrances credited to Karine in our catalog, by house.
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
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
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
