Nicole Mancini, raised by a trailblazing single mother who was the first female stockbroker at her firm, graduated cum laude in Psychology with a biochemistry minor.
She joined Givaudan in 2000, spending three years in applications and quality-control labs before entering the Givaudan Perfumery School in France in 2003, training under senior perfumer Jack Agran before moving into New York's fine-fragrance team. In 2020 she created Kylie Nude Lips for KKW Fragrance, which won the Fragrance Foundation USA's Fragrance Women's Popular Award of the Year; she is now Principal Perfumer at dsm-firmenich.
Fragrances credited to Nicole 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
