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Perfumer

Mathilde Laurent

She studied chemistry and physics, then perfumery at ISIPCA, and trained under Jean-Paul Guerlain, spending about eleven years at Guerlain. She has been Cartier's in-house perfumer since the mid-2000s. Her L'Heure perdue uses only lab-made molecules. Her work includes Baiser Volé, L'Envol and Herba Fresca.