Born in Nice in 1905 in the South of France not far from Grasse; Sent to the Paris area to take over from a top perfumer of the company. He was essentially self taught with no background in perfume. In 1946 he founded "Art et Parfum", a private creative laboratory for perfumery first based in Courbevoie (near Paris) then located in Cabris near Grasse, also his home, where he lived until his death in 1996.