Quentin Bisch is a French perfumer known for his bold, expressive and highly distinctive approach to fragrance creation. A perfumer at Givaudan, he has created compositions for numerous designer and niche houses, often working with powerful contrasts, generous textures and immediately recognizable signatures. His portfolio includes some of contemporary perfumery’s most successful and talked-about fragrances, reflecting an approach that combines technical precision with a strong sense of drama and creativity.
Discover Plume Impression, a French niche fragrance house born from a love story. From Quentin Bisch to Mark Buxton, explore its perfumes, creative philosophy and the fragrances that have inevitably found their way onto my wishlist.
BOSS promises peony and maple syrup. My skin delivers tropical fruit, fizzy candy and a soft floral drydown instead.
Le Sel d’Issey Parfum keeps the line’s salty marine signature but wraps it in saffron, amber and a warmer sensuality. Two tiny samples were enough to make the outcome rather predictable.
La Belle Rosea reveals an unexpectedly delicate side of Jean Paul Gaultier: airy florals, persistent freshness and a soft base that rounds the fragrance without making it sweet.
Maison Crivelli adds Tobacco Carnaval to its secretive Mystères Olfactifs line, pairing tobacco and rum in an extrait that has quietly moved from a Doha exclusive to a Selfridges listing.
A juicy tropical fragrance with pitaya, creamy florals and restrained vanilla. La Bomba smells better than its butterfly-shaped bottle led me to expect.
La Bomba Intensa by Carolina Herrera deepens the original’s butterfly fantasy with wild berries, Venezuelan orchid and red amber.
Rabanne 1 Million Black brings tropical freshness, a trio of vanillas and ebony woods to the iconic line. We’ve already smelled it, and the juice is better than that outrageous bottle suggests.
Jean Paul Gaultier introduces La Favorite, a new feminine fragrance created by Quentin Bisch and Amélie Jacquin, pairing nocturnal florals with benzoin, tonka bean and vanilla.
Le Sel d’Issey Parfum pushes the line into darker territory, contrasting cold salt and seaweed with heated saffron, woods, amber and oakmoss.