While some perfumers are real stars and do not hesitate to make people talk about them, others are much more discreet and little information is filtered on their background and their initial desires to become a perfumer. Jacques Huclier is one of them. He does not wish to dwell on his personal life but only lets his perfumed compositions appear from him.
Jacques Huclier’s training and career
Jacques Huclier passed, like many renowned perfumers, through the benches of the international school of perfumery of Versailles, ISIPCA. A renowned establishment, this is the best way to become a perfumer and to make a name for yourself in this profession today. He graduated there in 1987 and joined the Haarmann & Reimer house the following year as a junior perfumer. Then, in 1990, he moved to a larger company and moved to Quest International, now Givaudan. He began by occupying a position of perfumer in fine fragrances in Paris. He held this position for eight years in France before leaving, from 1998 to 2003, for New York, within the same framework. Then, following this long stay on the other side of the Atlantic, he returned to France and finally did not change his position until 2007. Since that day, he occupies the position of senior perfumer for Givaudan, a real consecration. Thus, he benefits from the incredible notoriety of this brand, which allows him to collaborate with the greatest luxury houses and to be one of the most prolific perfumers of his time.
The perfumes of Jacques Huclier
Jacques Huclier has collaborated with multiple design houses. Thus, he has worked with O Boticario, Nina Ricci, Carte Of The Heart, Deviner, Gucci, Davidoff and Adidas. In other words, Jacques Huclier enjoys developing perfume blockbusters as much as working for so-called more confidential brands. Nevertheless, its notoriety is based mainly on the perfumes of Thierry Mugler. Indeed, he launched his collaboration with the brand in 1996, by creating A * men for men. Then, he did not hesitate to undo and deconstruct his initial composition to create multiple variations: Coffee, Havana, Pure Shot, Tonka, Zest Ultra, Ice… There is now something for all tastes and for all types of food. ‘men.
Jacques Huclier is a complete perfumer who succeeds as much in creating fresh and invigorating juices as in developing amber and seductive fragrances. Her designs are equally suitable for the fairer sex as well as the male and manage to meet commercial needs while satisfying her limitless creativity.
