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Violaine Collas
Violaine Collas loves working with lively, frank spices and pairing them with generous flowers. For BDK Parfums, Violaine Collas created Crème de Cuir and Pas ce Soir, among others.
Career and creations
Violaine Collas is a perfumer at Mane, the Grasse fragrance company. There she created Replica Bubble Bath for Maison Margiela, named Best Niche Fragrance of the Year at the Academia del Perfume awards in Madrid in 2021. For Jean-Louis Scherrer's Pop Delights collection, she imagined a gardenia flower blended with white peach and ripe apricot.
At BDK Parfums, she composed Crème de Cuir, a leather without any animal note, inspired by the beige and white monochromes of the painter Rothko: a white suede, soft and velvety. She wanted a touch of impertinence, with mandarin, pink pepper and pineapple, then an addictive trail of musks and vanilla that underlines the confidence and sensuality of the leather.
For the same house she also created Pas ce Soir: she likes to work with spices, vibrant and strong, and paired them with voluptuous white flowers and quince chutney, on a woody chypre base.
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