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Join us and celebrate the beauty of human experience. Create for happier, healthier lives, with love for nature. Together, with passion and creativity, we deliver food innovations, craft inspired fragrances and develop beauty and wellbeing solutions. There’s much to learn and many to learn from, with more than 16,800 employees around the world to explore ideas and ambitions with. Every day, your talent, your innovative spirit, and your determination will shape our future, making a positive difference on billions of people. Every essence of you enriches our world. We are Givaudan. Human by nature.  

At Givaudan, we love to create fragrances and flavours that bring memorable experiences to consumers around the world. We establish true partnerships, because we are dedicated, passionate and always give our all.

Inspiring

The mission of the Givaudan Perfumery School is to reveal the potential of our trainees perfumers by allowing them to express their unique personalities through creativity. We develop a rich and diverse palette of accomplished perfumers, to meet every need of our clients and consumers.

Only a handful of applicants will be accepted to become a Trainee Perfumer at the legendary Givaudan Perfumery School. It is here that we train perfumers to carry on the heritage of perfumery as a craft, to diffuse a love of perfume and to share a passion for fragrance with clients and other partners.

Challenging

You will be intensely motivated to embark on a long and challenging four-year learning path, and will relish learning how to combine creative expression with technical skills. You will explore all aspects of perfumery design and will craft fragrances that meet customer expectations and through fine fragrances as well as consumer products.

Showing a strong perseverance in this difficult apprenticeship is an essential factor in becoming a successful perfumer in our industry.

With Heart & Soul

You will passionately devote yourself to learn the entire spectrum of fragrance genealogy, developing an olfactive memory of hundreds of ingredients. Once this knowledge is deeply yours, you will then acquire the techniques involved in blending unique, tailor-made fragrances that delight, surprise and touch everyone’s emotions.

Ultimately, you will become a Junior Perfumer at Givaudan, expressing yourself and revealing your creativity in a fascinating environment.

Your future position ?

Official status as the designated Trainee Perfumer at the Givaudan Perfumery School.

Four-year paid training period, mainly in France and Singapore.

Post successful completion of the Givaudan Perfumery School, you will graduate as a Junior Perfumer and will be located in one of our Creative Centres, according to the company needs.

You ?

• A passion for perfumery, and an advanced knowledge of this sensory field.
• Strong olfactive abilities.
• University Degree.
• Experience in Fragrance Analysis (Gas Chromatograph Mass Spectrometer) is advantageous.
• Perseverance to engage on a long and challenging learning path.
• Curiosity, openness and willingness to travel.
• Demonstrated creativity in any field.
• Setting priorities and solving complex problems.
• Commitment to work in any location according to company needs.
• Verbal and written command of the English language, proficiency in one or more other languages an asset.
• Values aligned to the Givaudan's values and DNA.
• Metacognition.

IMPORTANT

Because we are speaking of future opportunities and you are very numerous applying, we can't guarantee you an answer before a role would have opened within our Perfumery School.

We are sorry for the inconvenience and be sure that we use this time to review thoroughly your application.

At Givaudan, you contribute to delightful taste and scent experiences that touch people’s lives.
You work within an inspiring teamwork culture – where you can thrive, collaborate and learn from other talented and passionate people across disciplines, regions and divisions.
Every essence of you enriches our world.
Diversity drives innovation and creates closer connections with our employees, customers and partners.
Givaudan embraces diversity and is committed to building an inclusive environment where everyone impacts our world.