Jacques Cavallier

Jacques Cavallier-Belletrud (born 24 January 1962) is a French perfumer, formerly with the Swiss fragrance and flavor company Firmenich, who currently works for Louis Vuitton of the LVMH Luxury Group.

He has created or collaborated in the creation of over 80 fragrances and perfumes for fashion house brands such as Parfums Christian Dior, Parfums Givenchy, Issey Miyake, Yves Saint Laurent, Fenty Beauty and Lancôme. to a family that lived in the town since the 15th century. His father and grandfather were also perfumers, whom he credits as having been his greatest influences. ), Paco Rabanne's Pour Elle, Yves Rocher's So Elixir, and YSL's Elle. He also collaborated with Chantal Roos to create the iconic Issey Miyake L'Eau d'Issey in 1991, Jean Paul Gaultier's Women in 1993, Issey Miyake's L'Eau d'Issey for Men, Issey Miyake's Le Feu, and Yves Saint Laurent's Nu. known in the industry as Calone 1951 and colloquially as "watermelon ketone". Calone imparts a light, airy, sea-breeze scent with an aqueous watermelon/melon feel that was used by Cavallier in Aqua di Gio and L'Eau d'Issey in the 1990s and Bulgari's Aqva Pour Homme Marine in 2008. and Cavallier was among the first perfumers to incorporate this scent into the “water” or “marine” category of fragrances. and Opium by Yves Saint Laurent, created in 1977 by perfumers Jean-Louis Sieuzac, Jean Amic and Raymond Chaillan. Cavallier credits the synthetic jasmine-like molecule hedione (Methyl dihydrojasmonate) for contributing to the long-lasting freshness characteristic of Eau Savage, and has said that Opium reminds him of the great advances in perfumery that occurred in the late 1970s. Jacques Cavallier collaborated with veteran perfumer François Demachy, who was already at LVMH, but Demachy was more involved with the technical and creative direction rather than as an in-house perfumer.

With Cavallier joining Louis Vuitton as its Master in-house perfumer, LVMH was said to be following a trend of having dedicated in-house perfumers working on luxury fragrance brands, which includes Jacques Polge at Chanel, Jean-Claude Ellena at Hermès, Mathilde Laurent at Cartier, Thomas Fontaine at Jean Patou, and Thierry Wasser at Guerlain.

Award(s) In 2004, Jacques Cavallier was awarded the Prix François Coty, now known as the Prix International du Parfum.