Pierre Négrin

Pierre Negrin is a French perfumer born in Grasse. Both of his grandfathers traded in raw materials for fragrances, and as a child he discovered in their workshops a universe of scents that would shape his sensibility. Drawn to photography, an internship in a perfumer's workshop during his physics and chemistry studies revealed his true calling: to express himself through fragrance rather than light.

Trained in laboratories rather than specialized schools, he worked in Mexico in the early 1990s before settling in the United States. In 1990 he received the International Fragrance Creation Award from the French Society of Perfumers, and in 2008 he joined Firmenich's Fine Fragrance Center in New York.

He has created fragrances for Calvin Klein, Ralph Lauren, and Amouage — the house behind Interlude Man, Journey Woman, and Portrayal Man — accumulating more than 90 catalogued fragrances.