Pierre-Constantin Guéros
A French Symrise perfumer whose tactile approach draws on early olfactory memories from his father’s fur workshop and an international career.
France
About Pierre-Constantin Guéros
Pierre-Constantin Guéros is a French perfumer who works with Symrise and is credited on Laboratorio Olfattivo’s **Nektar** and **ExplOud**; industry profiles also place him among perfumers associated with Middle Eastern materials and luxury-brand briefs.
Career
Guéros was born and raised in Paris’s 17th arrondissement, where his father’s fur workshop gave him early exposure to leather, fur, and polished-wood accords, and he discovered perfumery at an ISIPCA open day. Sources place him at Symrise from 2012, first in Dubai, and later back in Paris; trade and industry profiles also describe work across Munich, New York, and Dubai before his senior role at Symrise.
Creative Style & Philosophy
His work is often described through travel, cultural curiosity, and a focus on texture and materiality rather than overly literal themes. In the ExplOud briefing, he said he aimed to recreate the main facets of oud without a caricatured Middle Eastern effect, using woods, musks, and vetiver to show volume, skin-like softness, and smoke.
Signature Works
- *ExplOud — Laboratorio Olfattivo* — Credited to Pierre-Constantin Guéros; a woody oud composition described by the brand and trade press as seeking to capture oud’s facets without caricature.
- *Nektar — Laboratorio Olfattivo* — Credited to Pierre Guéros; the brand page and retail listings present it as a honey-centered fragrance.
- *Gold Incense — Carolina Herrera* — Listed by The Fragrance Foundation UK as one of his creations.
