Annick Ménardo is a contemporary perfume

Perfume

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r who worked under the fragrance firm Firmenich

Firmenich

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 since joining in 1991. Although she has a background in a wide base of sciences such as biochemistry and medicine, Annick Ménardo pursued perfumery as her subject of study and is a graduate of the French perfume academy ISIPCA

ISIPCA

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. She was mentored under Michel Almayrac while working at Créations Aromatiques and her early work is influenced by his style

Annick Ménardo is also known in her work with sculptor Shioya Nobi in his /7S/ olfactory art installation and created the scent for the sculpture "Anger". It is noted by Nobi that she was easily assigned to the piece "...because (she) is always angry."

Works

Annick Ménardo has created many notable perfumes including:

• Lolita Lempicka Au Masculin, Lolita Lempicka
  Lolita Lempicka
  Lolita Lempicka is the pseudonym of Josiane Maryse Pividal , a French fashion designer. The pseudonym is meant to be an homage to the novelist Vladimir Nabokov and the Art Deco painter Tamara de Lempicka, combining the nickname of the title character of the former's Lolita with the surname of the...
  
  
• Body Kouros, Yves Saint Laurent
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• Hypnotic Poison, Christian Dior
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• Bois d'Argent, Christian Dior
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• Hugo Boss, Boss
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• Black, Bvlgari
• Lolita Lempicka, Lolita Lempicka
• Patchouli 24, Le Labo
• Bois d'Armenie, Guerlain
• Altikä, Yves Rocher
• Comme une Evidence Femme, Yves Rocher
• Fuel For Life, Diesel