IFF/ISIPCA Masters in Scent Design and Creation Program

This comprehensive 3-year training program breaks ground in teaching the foundations and pioneering advances of designing fragrances. Graduates will be extraordinarily well equipped for a range of careers in the fragrance industry including fine and consumer fragrance perfumers, scent design managers, technical perfumers, marketing, sales and related roles.

Taught by a vibrant and passionate faculty of industry experts, students gain an understanding of the fragrance culture and industry as they learn how to make perfume. Classes include intensive and extensive study of raw materials, history of perfume, and market knowledge — plus courses on consumer insights, creativity, and personal development. The program is enriched with marketing safaris, pedagogical visits to Grasse to experience mimosa in bloom and IFF’s LMR atelier, with its 100% pure and natural extracts, and commitment to environmental management and sustainable development.

IFF Insight sessions open the doors for students to meet perfumers, scent design managers, sales and marketing experts from around the globe, sharing their personal perspectives and inspirations and passion for the world of fragrance.

The program includes an Internship at IFF where each student is mentored by a senior IFF perfumer and students learn from on-the-job experience.

Students who graduate from this program will be well prepared for a range of careers including fine or consumer fragrance perfumers, evaluators or scent design managers, technologists, marketing or sales professionals, and many related roles.

Specialized Internship opportunities apply classroom learning to on-the-job experience.