Senior Perfumer Consultant

Company: This long-established, family-owned flavours and fragrances business has operated for more than six decades and is one of the leading companies

within its domestic market. The organisation combines established fragrance manufacturing capability with considerable internal technical and analytical

infrastructure. Its facilities include multiple GC-MS systems, a large team of scientists and an existing flavour and fragrance creation function. Having

historically focused primarily on its domestic market, the company is now entering an important period of international expansion. It is receiving increasing

interest from customers outside its home market and is planning further development across Europe, the Middle East and other international markets. To

support this growth, increase creative capacity and strengthen its ability to respond quickly to customer briefs, the busines s is looking to appoint an

experienced Senior Perfumer Consultant.

Role: The Senior Perfumer Consultant will provide hands-on fragrance creation support to the company’s existing technical and creative teams. This is a

flexible consultancy opportunity rather than a traditional full-time, location-dependent position. The successful individual can be based internationally and

may work remotely from their own fragrance creation laboratory or provide formulations and technical direction for the company’s internal team to

compound and evaluate. The business is open to different engagement structures, including a regular number of days per week or month, a monthly

retainer, project-based consultancy or another commercially practical arrangement. The immediate priority is to strengthen senior creative capability across

FMCG and consumer product fragrances, particularly home care, laundry and fabric care, soap, personal wash and household cleaning products, alongside

fine fragrance, personal care fragrance, matching and reformulation work. The successful consultant will ideally have gained significant experience within a

recognised multinational or international fragrance house before moving into independent consultancy, freelance work or another flexible professional

model. The business values experience, creativity and technical credibility, but speed and reliability will be equally important. The consultant must be able

to progress briefs efficiently, manage an agreed volume of projects and provide commercially realistic turnaround times.

Main Responsibilities

• Develop original fragrance solutions in response to customer briefs, internal development projects and wider innovation requirements.

• Provide specialist fragrance creation expertise within FMCG, home care, fabric care, soap, personal wash, fine fragrance or other agreed

application areas.

• Interpret customer briefs and translate them into technically appropriate, commercially viable fragrance formulations.

• Create, modify and optimise fragrance formulations based on evaluation feedback from the company’s internal technical, commercial and

evaluation teams.

• Work remotely with the company’s Perfumers, scientists, laboratory personnel and senior management to progress projects effectively.

• Provide complete and accurate formulations for compounding within the company’s internal laboratory where required.

• Where the consultant has access to an independent fragrance creation laboratory, create and evaluate samples before submitting them to the

company for further testing.

• Support fragrance matching, reformulation, cost optimisation and the modification of existing products.

• Advise on the selection and use of aroma chemicals, natural extracts, essential oils and other fragrance raw materials.

• Provide technical guidance regarding fragrance performance across relevant finished-product bases and applications.

• Develop fragrances that meet the required performance, stability, cost and regulatory parameters within technically demanding consumer

product applications.

• Support troubleshooting linked to fragrance performance, raw material availability, substitutions, stability, discolouration, malodour or

application compatibility.

• Manage multiple active briefs while maintaining clear communication around priorities, progress and expected delivery dates.

• Provide realistic and consistent turnaround times for customer and internal development projects.

• Collaborate with the company’s analytical team and make practical use of GC-MS data where relevant to fragrance creation, matching and

reformulation.

• Participate in virtual project discussions, smelling sessions and technical reviews with internal stakeholders.

• Explain creative direction, raw material choices and technical decisions to internal teams and customers where appropriate.

• Support the adaptation of fragrance profiles for different consumer preferences, price points and international markets.

• Provide occasional on-site support, customer participation or technical training where required.

• Travel internationally, when necessary, with reasonable travel expenses covered by the company.

• Share relevant market insight, olfactive trends, raw material knowledge and application developments that may support the com pany’s

continued international expansion.

• Maintain strict confidentiality regarding formulations, raw materials, customer projects, technical processes and other proprietary information.

• Work within agreed intellectual property arrangements covering formulations and products developed during the consultancy engagement.

Key Requirements

• Significant professional experience as a hands-on Perfumer within the international fragrances industry.

• Strong fragrance creation experience across home care, laundry and fabric care, soap and detergents, household cleaning, personal wash, FMCG

and consumer products, fine fragrance or personal care fragrance.

• Previous experience within a recognised multinational or established international fragrance house strongly preferred.

• A background working within a multinational fragrance producer.• Strong understanding of fragrance raw materials, formulation principles and how fragrance systems perform within finished-product

applications.

• Demonstrable ability to develop original fragrances rather than operating solely within evaluation, applications, sales or technical service.

• Experience managing customer briefs independently from initial interpretation through to formulation, evaluation and modification.

• Strong olfactive evaluation capability and the ability to assess fragrances both neat and within finished-product bases.

• Experience with fragrance matching, reformulation, cost optimisation and raw material substitution.

• For home care and FMCG specialists, strong understanding of fragrance performance within technically demanding bases such as detergents,

soaps, fabric care and cleaning products.

• For fine fragrance specialists, experience creating original fragrances and interpreting creative briefs across relevant international or regional

markets.

• Knowledge of fragrance preferences relevant to India, the Middle East, Europe or other international markets would be advantageous.

• Experience with oriental, amber, musk, oud, attar or related profiles may be valuable for fine fragrance consultants but is not essential.

• Ability to work remotely and collaborate effectively with an international technical and creative team.

• Access to an independent fragrance creation laboratory would be highly advantageous but is not essential.

• Where laboratory access is not available, the consultant must be comfortable providing detailed formulations for the company’s internal

laboratory to compound.

• Ability to manage a consistent volume of briefs and provide reliable, commercially appropriate turnaround times.

• Strong organisational skills and the ability to balance multiple customer and development projects.

• Practical, responsive and delivery-focused approach to consultancy work.

• Fluent English required.

• Willingness to participate in virtual meetings and evaluation discussions across international time zones.

• Ability to work within clearly defined confidentiality, non-disclosure and intellectual property arrangements.