Sophie Labbé grew up between the bustling streets of Paris and the salty breeze of the Charente-Maritime coast, where the air changed with the seasons: city scents, nature, grape harvests, warm sand, and crisp, clean air. Her earliest scent memories are wrapped in silk scarves, soft powder, and the warmth of her mother’s skin. Her deep connection to femininity took root long before she ever imagined becoming a perfumer. And if she could create a fragrance for a historical figure, the choice would be Cleopatra.

Everything changed the day she met Jean Kerléo, the master perfumer at Jean Patou. That encounter opened the door to a fascinating new world, and Sophie instantly knew: this was her path. She went on to study at ISIPCA, and later spent 20 years at IFF, crafting perfumes that touched millions of lives: Jasmin Noir for Bulgari, Beauty for Calvin Klein, Pure White Linen for Estée Lauder, Signorina for Ferragamo, and many more.

A SENSITIVE NOSE, A PLAYFUL SPIRIT

Sophie never starts a perfume without a story. Words are always her starting point: she translates them into notes, into moods, into emotion. She can be working on ten perfumes at once, each in a different phase, but her nose is always “on”: sometimes in technical mode, other times lost in thought, or simply swept away by the smell of wet leaves on an ordinary morning.

THE CREATIONS