Born in Barcelona in 1986 and raised in Luxembourg, Jacob Varela wanted as a child to be an inventor so that he could take things apart and understand them. He studied chemistry, completed an internship in a chromatography and organic chemistry laboratory in Nice, then enrolled at ISIPCA to do the same with molecules. He graduated in 2012 and joined Takasago, spending eighteen months developing his craft alongside Francis Kurkdjian at the creation centre on rue Torricelli, followed by three years in the Shanghai office. He speaks four European languages and Mandarin, and draws on that cultural range in his work with raw materials.

Anne-Louise Gautier trained at ISIPCA, the French institute that has produced much of the industry's senior talent, and composes from Expressions Parfumées in Grasse. Her range moves easily between chypre, leather and gourmand registers, and her signature is a controlled richness: depth achieved through structure rather than volume. She has composed for Ormonde Jayne, Sospiro, Sylvaine Delacourte, Carven, L'Occitane and Annayake. In 2024 her creation Zenith Echos, developed with Élodie Bernard, was named Signature Scent of Beautyworld Middle East. She works to a stated principle of conviction, open-mindedness and a taste for aestheticism.

Nathalie Templer came to perfumery through chemistry. After scientific studies in France she spent three years with a small house in Grasse, seeing the industry from production through quality control to research. She then spent a decade at Mane as a Perfumer Analyst, becoming a GC/MS expert who analysed and smelled every natural and synthetic raw material in the profession's vocabulary, followed by two years based in Dubai. In 2016 she joined Expressions Parfumées as a perfumer, where she specialises in fine fragrance for the Middle East. Her approach favours reduced formulas in which every ingredient carries a precise role, and she describes representing the craft of Grasse abroad as a privilege.

Born in Grasse in 1955 into a family that has worked in perfumery since the 17th century, Olivier Cresp grew up among the flower fields his great-grandfather cultivated. He trained in New York before returning to France, joining Firmenich in 1992 and being named Master Perfumer in 2006. That same first year at Firmenich he composed Angel for Thierry Mugler, a fragrance credited with creating the gourmand family and reshaping modern perfumery. In 2012 he was made Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres by the French Minister of Culture, and in 2018 received the Fragrance Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award. His work favours clarity over complexity, telling a story with few, precisely chosen notes.