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KAJAL CREATORS

MARK BUXTON
Created Lamar Mark was born in England but grew up close to Hamburg, Germany. He started his work as a Perfumer-Creator with more than 25 years of experience in the Fine Fragrance creation.
Mark has collaborated with many international leading fragrance houses including Givenchy, Versace, Van Cleef & Arpels, Paco Rabanne, Lagerfeld, Burberrys, Cartier, Chopard, Ferré to name a few.
In the creation process of LAMAR, Mark said “My inspiration, was to create a rich , natural, warm, long lasting fragrance, by using high quality natural products. This gives a feeling of walking through a bed of roses or a jasmine field - very feminine and sensual.”

CHRISTIAN CARBONNEL
Created Kajal, Dahab & some of the scents from the Fiddah Collection Chris has always been in the world of perfumery, thanks to his father Francisco Carbonnel, the perfumer of his own company. He gave him the passion and the talent to create wonderful fragrances.
Nowadays, Christian is a renowned perfumer dedicating his career to work refined and exceptional fragrances. Chris travelled the world, searching for needs and future trends of different markets and different brands.
He specialized through time in Niche, Artistic and Oriental perfumes, and is, today, a reference in this discipline. Several houses trust him in his know-how: Kajal, Xerjoff, Sospiro, Rancé, Casamoratti, Jardins de France, Kemi, Santi Burgas, among others.

URS CASTELLETTI
Co-Created Faris
“Creating fragrances is like a puzzle!” says Urs Castelletti, perfumer with 30 years of experience at the LUZI fragrance house. A bold statement, but what exactly does he mean by this?
For Urs, it is the experience that lets him understand what really goes together. But, like so many aspects of craftsmanship, it takes time, training and practice to get there.
After decades of experience, Urs has acquired the ability to assemble the individual puzzle pieces into wonderful creations and bring them to life.

VALÉRIE GARNUCH-MENTZEL
Created Jihan & Yasmina Valérie has been with DROM since 1992. After two years in quality control, where she developed a love for perfumery, she became infatuated with international fine fragrances as well as personal care.
She has worked in DROM’s Paris, Munich, and New York offices. On her never-ending quest for new and exciting fragrance creations, Valérie especially loves to experiment with woody, spicy, and ambery notes, both for men and for women.
Loves New York dragon and rainbow rolls, running along the North Sea shore on the Island of Sylt without shoes, and taking Indian food cooking classes.

Marc Daniel HEIMGARTNER
Fueled with a love of arts, the exotic cuisine and a curious nature to embody emotion in line with creativity, Marc’s fragrance creations tell a distinct story of pure craftmanship and are a testament to his vocation.
In the development of Masa, Marc says “The fragrance contains a sparkling fresh ginger effect harmonized with bergamot and cardamom, Provence herbs, petitgrain and a magnificent transaparent aquatic accord.” He adds “I used a rare characteristic micro-distilled patchouli with a long-lasting ambery woody and musky undertone.”

KÉVIN MATHYS
Created KAJAL IV
A talented perfumer from France who developed a passion for scents during his childhood in the countryside. His fascination with fragrances and their emotional impact on people led him to pursue a career in perfumery.
He began by training himself online and later studied in Montpellier before becoming a trainee perfumer at Bell F&F in Leipzig under the mentorship of Sebastian Reuter.
Currently, Kévin works as a perfumer at CPL Aromas in Dubai, where he is highly valued for his contributions. He finds joy in the creative process of developing fragrances and takes pride in seeing his creations on the market.
Outside of perfumery, Kévin enjoys sketching, nature, swimming, and hiking, all of which influence his fragrance creations. He particularly enjoys working with leather, woods, and amber, as they produce captivating scents that can be appreciated by both men and women.

ALIX MIRAL
Created Joorie & Warde Alix’s perfume passion began with her collection of fragrance posters when she was a teenager. She later graduated from ISIPCA and has worked with Laboratoire Monique Remy in Grasse and Chanel in Paris. She has worked for DROM New York as well as DROM Munich since 2001.
Alix focuses on fine fragrance and toiletries – especially hair care and skin care – as well as home care. Whether on a Namibian safari or canoeing with crocodiles in French Guyana, Alix is always learning and exploring new territories.
She enjoys trekking, skating, and going to the opera or a modern art exhibition (Andy Warhol, Yves Klein, and Matisse are her favorites). Completely at home in the kitchen, she loves to cook – with her dad being a chef, she had a great professor!

DAVID CHIEZE
Co-Created Faris By Kajal
David has always loved scent and fragrance. He traveled regularly to Provence, France as a child, and still fondly recalls the scent of rosemary in the mountains on warm summer days. It was clear early on that the fascinating world of perfumery was his calling. After graduating with a master’s degree in chemistry, David used his expert knowledge to passionately sell fine fragrance compositions at L’Artisan Parfumeur opening up his world into the realm of fragrances. The words calm, intuitive and passionate probably describe David best.

RANIA JOUANEH
Created Almaz
Rania Jouaneh, renowned for her exquisitely powerful and sensual perfume creations.
Rania is an innovator and creator of modern and sophisticated natural perfumes. Her passion for fragrances and perfumes originates from her childhood in the Middle East and Africa. There, she was surrounded by the aromas of jasmine trees under which she played, the spice markets, the exotic souks and magical African bazaars. Today she is a perfumer and nose in Paris where nature’s aromas remain the core of her modern and sensual creations.
Rania’s fragrances are a reflection of her personality: authentic and original, natural and sophisticated. She envisages her perfume as a key accessory, one to be worn as jewelry for the skin. She uses noble and rare essences in all her scents while respecting their olfactory richness and complexities.

HUSEYIN ERDOGMUS
Created Aican & Ruby
Born at Egirdir Isparta Turkey in 1951 and he graduated from Middle East Technical University as a Chemical Engineer in 1974. He worked as Production Director and Perfumer until 1980 at Eyup Sabri Tuncer, the oldest perfume house in Turkey. He established EPS Fragrances in 1981 and have since worked as Managing Director and Master Perfumer of the company. He conducted deep research on natural essential oils production techniques and analysis. Pioneer of invented MOPAD Head space analysis techniques for living naturals.
He has developed optimization of fragrance manufacturing so that EPS became the most robotic automated company in the world. As a perfumer, he has created many world bestselling fragrances for various applications and trend setting Oud Fragrances in the Middle East. He directed and invented the patented anti-viral effects of fragrance molecules and essential oils research for relief of Covid -19.
He has been awarded four times in a row as the number one fragrance exporter from Turkey and has been announced among the Top 100 income-tax payers of Turkey twelve times. He is married and has two daughters and three grandchildren

ROSENDO MATEU
For 40 years, Mateu has been one of the specialists at Puig, one of the world’s most prestigious perfume companies. During that time he has developed dozens of fragrances, which carry his personal signature and the ambition to achieve a combination of commerciality together with the creation of a unique product.
“Maître Parfumeur” since 2010 (one of the few in Europe) Rosendo has helped many brands in the creation of new fragrances that now boast an international presence.