Karoline Buxton
A Paris-based Symrise senior perfumer, composing flowers with freshness and skin-like softness.
About Karoline Buxton
Karoline Buxton is a senior perfumer at Symrise, based in Paris. Also credited as Karoline Vieth-Buxton, she has composed fragrances for perfume houses and beauty brands, bringing a long professional career to work with flowers, fresher materials and the softer textures of musk and wood.
Career
Her background includes practical chemistry training at Haarmann & Reimer and studies at the company’s perfumery school. Professional experience took her to Britain, the United States and Japan as well as France, before an extended career in Paris. Her training connects the practical handling of fragrance materials with the creative work of composition across different markets and settings.
Creative Style & Philosophy
Her floral work connects scent with impressions of brightness and touch. In a collaborative composition using rose, jasmine and musk, she described a velvet-like feeling and a more intimate atmosphere around the wearer. Other credited works place lively citrus or mint alongside flowers, tea and wood, showing different ways to give fresher materials texture and a fuller character.
Signature Works
- *Eau de Dali*: A 1995 Salvador Dali fragrance, bringing green leaves and citrus into contact with flowers and a woody foundation.
- *Aqua Sport*: A 2001 Biotherm fragrance, pairing mint and tea in a fresher green composition.
- *Le Parfum*: A 2024 Lancôme fragrance co-created with Aliénor Massenet, combining white tea, rose and musk in a softer floral composition.
