Pia Long, born and raised in Helsinki, Finland, has lived in the UK since 1992 and graduated from the London College of Fashion after an early career in film, TV, and theatre.
She began selling fragrance as a teenager in the 1980s, trained as a perfumer from 2006, and spent seven years as Junior Perfumer at Lush before co-founding the independent British house Olfiction with Nick Gilbert in 2016. She won the Institute for Art and Olfaction's Septimus Piesse Visionary Award in 2024 and published the book Demo Accords.
Fragrances credited to Pia 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
