What Is a Professional Smeller Called?

A perfumer is an expert on creating perfume compositions, sometimes referred to affectionately as a nose (French: nez) due to their fine sense of smell and skill in producing olfactory compositions.

What is a professional perfumer called?

Master perfumers are sometimes called a nez—the French word for "nose"—for good reason. They commit hundreds of scents to memory and can distinguish between ingredients that would smell identical to the untrained nose. Many perfumers can also tell an essential oil from a synthetic material, which is no small feat.

Is a perfumer a chemist?

Perfume chemist is a common title given to someone who applies a chemical engineering background to the production of perfumes and colognes. A broader title given to someone who engineers a variety of health and beauty products is cosmetic chemist.