Élodie Bernard
An Expressions Parfumées perfumer who draws on personal memory and everyday encounters to shape floral textures into fragrance stories.
France
About Élodie Bernard
Élodie Bernard is a perfumer at Expressions Parfumées in Grasse. She sees fragrance as something personal: a means of awakening emotion and memory while telling a story. Floral character and the texture of materials play a part in that work, which is introduced both by her fragrance company and by the brands for which she creates.
Career
An early interest in scent led Bernard to study chemistry before attending ISIPCA. At Expressions Parfumées, she gained experience across several stages of the creative process and developed her technical understanding of ingredients and formulation. She is listed in the company’s current creative team. Her work includes fragrances for SABON and projects introduced by perfume houses such as Sospiro.
Creative Style and Philosophy
Everyday events, encounters, travel and culinary creations provide inspiration. Sospiro describes her compositions through their poetic intensity, contrast and texture. For a SABON composition centered on white lily, she connected the green, botanical aspect of white lily with its fuller floral character, interpreting light reflected through the glass roofs of Belle Époque palaces. Another composition moves toward a desert setting, combining rose, fruit and soft musk to express a flower awakening in a desert at dawn.
Signature Works
- *Lily Palace* — A SABON fragrance connecting ivy, white lily and musk with the airy brightness of a floral palace.
- *Desert of Roses* — A SABON eau de parfum in which lychee and soft musk surround a rose-led floral heart and suggest a quiet dawn landscape.
