Atelier Cologne Founder Sylvie Ganter On Her Steve Jobs Inspired Fragrance and Celebrity Fan Base

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Atelier Cologne Founder Sylvie Ganter On Her Steve Jobs Inspired Fragrance and Celebrity Fan Base

Everything's coming up roses (and other scents) for Sylvie Ganter, the founder and perfumer behind Atelier Cologne loved by Sophie Turner and other celebs. To celebrate the brand's Los Angeles outpost opening in the beauty hall of Nordstrom in Century City, Ganter sat down with Stylish to talk everything from her creative process, to the fragrance she created to capture what she thinks the essence of Steve Jobs smells like, to the perfume she'd pick for Angelina Jolie. Scroll through to get the details!

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Atelier Cologne Founder Sylvie Ganter On Her Steve Jobs Inspired Fragrance and Celebrity Fan Base

Everything's coming up roses (and other scents) for Sylvie Ganter, the founder and perfumer behind Atelier Cologne loved by Sophie Turner and other celebs. To celebrate the brand's Los Angeles outpost opening in the beauty hall of Nordstrom in Century City, Ganter sat down with Stylish to talk everything from her creative process, to the fragrance she created to capture what she thinks the essence of Steve Jobs smells like, to the perfume she'd pick for Angelina Jolie. Scroll through to get the details!

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On Why Celebs Flock to the Brand

"I think when you do things with your heart and you do them passionately, you create something that's full of love." Ganter says of her perfume loved by many A-Listers. "I think that passion is translated and shared, so I think that touches people, celebrity or non-celebrity, in a very genuine way.” 

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Her Secret Way of Creating Scents

The process of making a perfume is exactly like making a film, Ganter reveals. "Every perfume starts with a huge mood board and an ingredient, like, 'What is the story you want to tell?' and 'Who is going to be the main actor?' So similar to making a movie, we always have one star ingredient which is the main role and the citruses are the supporting roles," she explains. "Without supporting roles, your actor cannot talk to anyone, so it's always a mix of the story you want to create and the ambiance you want to feel." She continues, "We choose the main ingredient that's going to help you tell that specific story and then we build from there."

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Her Eau de Steve Jobs

"There's a perfume we created called Santal Carmin and I had one person in mind when making it and it was Steve Jobs. It's a very bold, unexpected scent with lots of character and a soft side that you don't really see," she dishes. "To create it, we used sandal which is a very warm, sweet scent and mixed it with saffron which is very spicy. Putting the two ingredients together gives something that doesn't exist and Steve Jobs was the person I pictured. We always write stories and this story is somehow this perfume is an homage to him" she reveals. 

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On Her Surprise Muse, David Duchovny

Another source of inspiration? David Duchovny's character Hank Moody on the Showtime series Californiacation. "I made his perfume and the story is about him" she says. "It's about a writer whose probably abused drugs and alcohol a little too much and lost inspiration and cannot write anymore. He lives in L.A. and goes to a retreat or cabin in Lake Tahoe, and just has his glass of something and finds a way to get to writing again," she adds. "To me, it's totally Hank Moody. I can picture him, I can see him and the scent smells like what I imagine him smelling like."

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What She'd Pick for Angelina Jolie

"We have a scent called Rose Anonyme and it was inspired by a story about a woman in a leather catsuit and high heels. She reminds me of Robin Hood and she steals diamonds and replaces them with a flower. What you don't know is that the diamond she steals is not for herself and she gives them back to a good cause!" she tells Stylish. "There's a secret agent running after her who is in love with her, but he knows that if he catches her they cannot be together because he has to arrest her. Some of the stories are more personal and some are more fantasy, but this one reminds me of Angelina Jolie. I think she would wear this scent!" 

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Her Everyday Scent

As for Sylvie's go-to day-to-day perfume? Bois Blonds. While she admits she loves to "switch a lot", she created this scent with herself in mind. "It's very sheer and it's very transparent," she reveals. "It's a perfume I created for myself and I wanted to show that woman can wear woodsy aromas and that you can make them very feminine."