Anne-Sophie Behaghel

I was born in Paris, with the all-pervasive smell of concrete and the Metro in my nostrils. Growing up, my childhood nose had to resort to subterfuge to cope, inhaling the fragrances friends would leave in their wake when they came to visit, the smell of washing powder – different in every household – or my grandmother’s shepherd’s pie on Wednesdays…

Surprised and saddened that this sense was in no way developed or even mentioned at school, I soon threw myself into my own education on these everyday smells. Monique Schlienger’s overwhelming passion for fragrance embraced me like a musk. Thanks to her, I was able to discover just how far my little girl’s instinctive nose could mature.

After 9 years working as a trainer, perfumer and tester /evaluator at Cinquième Sens, I decided it was time for me to experience some of the world’s major companies and so I accepted a position in sales at Firmenich and then moved on to become an evaluator at Symrise. Soon, I was reunited with my fellow Cinquième Sens alumna, Amélie Bourgeois, and we created FLAIR. We understand each other instinctively, as if in the blink of a nose!