Founder of Atelier Rousseau — a one-woman fragrance house in Grasse, composing small-batch eau de parfums from naturally extracted absolutes and hand-blended accords.
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My grandmother kept a single bottle of jasmine absolute in a locked drawer, and let me open it once a year, on my birthday. I spent the other 364 days trying to remember exactly what it smelled like.
A fragrance is a sentence, not a single word. If a scent smells the same from the spray to an hour on skin, I haven't finished building it — a good accord keeps revealing itself for hours, not seconds.
Every fragrance starts as a memory or a place, never a formula.
Sketch the accord on paper before a single drop is measured.
Let the blend rest for weeks, sometimes months, before judging it.
Fine-tune the balance as the raw alcohol mellows into the oil.
Hand-fill, hand-label, hand-number every bottle in the batch.
Tilt a card to read the pyramid — every fragrance below shipped through the process above.
Eau de Parfum · Woody Chypre
The signature scent — clay-warm oakmoss and patchouli under a bergamot opening, built to age well on skin.
Eau de Parfum · Amber Floral
A sleepless-night scent built around tuberose and vanilla absolute, designed to bloom slowly after dark.
Eau de Toilette · Aromatic Fougère
A tribute to the lavender fields outside the atelier, distilled from a harvest I cut myself that July.
Extrait de Parfum · Woody Smoky
A dense, resinous extrait built for winter — cedar and birch tar smoke wrapped around a labdanum base.
Eau de Parfum · Green Floral
A bespoke commission for a Left Bank flower shop, since added to the permanent line by popular request.
Extrait de Parfum · Oriental Amber
The first fragrance I ever sold — a raw, unfiltered amber accord I still can't bring myself to reformulate.
Keep scrolling — each note settles into the pyramid, then resolves into the fragrance you'd actually wear.
The first ten minutes — bright, citrus, and gone before you notice it leaving.
Left a house perfumer role to build a fragrance line under my own name, sourced and blended entirely in-house.
Assisted on commercial briefs and private commissions under a senior perfumer, learning the house's accord library.
Formal training in organic chemistry, olfactive analysis, and composition at one of France's perfumery schools.
Independent Category
2023
The Fragrance Foundation
2022
Osmothèque, Versailles
2021
Elle Magazine
2020
Camille's accords don't announce themselves. Terre Battue took three visits to the counter before a customer finally asked what it was — and then they never left.
Most indie perfumers chase novelty. Camille chases correctness — every accord she's shown me earns its complexity instead of just collecting it.
I commissioned Fleur Sauvage for my shop on a whim. Eighteen months later it outsells three names I've carried for a decade.
Bespoke composition, wholesale stocking, or press samples — send a note and I'll reply within a day.