Portrait
Shyamala Maisondieu
Perfumer credited by Tom Ford, with Rodrigo Flores-Roux, for Tobacco Vanille Parfum, an intensified version of Tobacco Vanille in the Private Blend line.
Career and creations
Shyamala Maisondieu is one of the Givaudan perfumers the fragrance company highlighted in 2024 for the exhibition "Léonard de Vinci et les parfums de la Renaissance" at the Château du Clos Lucé. Alongside Calice Becker and Rodrigo Flores-Roux, among others, she contributed to the twenty-eight compositions that recreate the scents of that era and accompany visitors throughout the exhibition.
At Tom Ford, she co-signed Tobacco Vanille Parfum with Rodrigo Flores-Roux, an intensified take on one of the house's signature fragrances. The two perfumers describe it as a nobler, more daring version of the original: an oakwood extract, a whiskey cask accord and more Ambrofix, an ambery molecule, strengthen its woody, spicy and amber facets. Vanilla, tobacco leaf, bitter orange and ginger complete the composition.
Her training and her other creations do not appear in the official sources consulted by Volute.
Text written with the help of AI, based on official information from the fragrance houses, the fragrance companies and the perfumers themselves.