Nicole Mancini

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.