Senior Creative Perfumer

• Jul 2020 - Present

Senior Creative Perfumer

• Jan 2018 - Mar 2020

Recruited to develop solutions for global beauty care projects, including Shampoo (dry & regular), Deodorants (AP, 100% natural), bar soap, body wash, depilatory creams, lotions, toilet paper, and hand wash. Created winning fragrances for shower gel, depilatory cream, a complete line of natural products, and shampoo for global customers. Developed 100% natural and Halal fragrances. Actively contributed in cross-category evaluations for fine fragrance, deodorant, lotion, hand soap, shampoo, candle, and body wash categories. Formulated a best tester Men fragrance for a customer's global bank, utilizing a challenging Symrise captive molecule. Worked through March 2020. Show less

Creative Perfumer

• Jun 2012 - Dec 2017

Achieved all metrics for on time and on budget global projects in Personal Wash category, including bar soap, body wash, and hand wash. Earned 5 spots in the Oracle global bank. Created fragrances for global customer’s banks in body wash in a range of hedonic directions, including tropical fruits, coconut milk / water, chocolate, sugar, mint, floral, and green tea. Formulated fragrances for various products including: Downy, Pantene, Palmolive, Fa, Softsoap, Lifebuoy, Softsoap, Tone, Dial, Irish Spring, St Ives, Avon, Dove, Lux, BBW and Private Label. Show less

Creative Junior Perfumer

• Sep 2007 - May 2012

Focused on personal wash local projects (body wash, hand wash, and bar soap) and global: Latin America (bar soap), Asia (body wash, hand wash, and bar soap), and Europe (body wash) markets. Created fragrances for competitive projects: Henkel, Colgate, P&G, and Unilever. Developed fragrance themes with Unilever for projects in US and Asian markets (Caress, Lux, Lifebuoy, and Vaseline). Won competitive projects in brands such as Softsoap and St Ives for hand wash and body wash.

Creative Perfumer Trainee

• Apr 2002 - Aug 2007

Developed fragrances for all household categories: fabric care, home care, and personal wash. Improved sales by winning several fragrance projects including: 100% Natural All-Purpose Cleaner for Clorox; Candela - a specialty candle fragrance; an Alberto V05® Shampoo; and an air freshener for private label.

Fragrance Development Manager | Home care

• Mar 2001 - Mar 2002

Quality Control Evaluator

• Apr 2000 - Mar 2001

Fragrance Development Manager | Home care

• Jan 1996 - Mar 2000

Quality Control Evaluator

• Jun 1995 - Jan 1996