A lifelong love of fragrance inspired Quentin Bisch to pursue perfumery, but as a scientifically ungifted student, he was told he could never gain admittance to an elite training academy, so instead, he went to school to be a dancer and theatre performer. But even while running his own theatre company, he continued to study and lobby the gatekeepers at the training schools, until finally Givaudan offered him a slot in their program, despite his lack of a chemistry degree. His very first scent was the Etat Libre d’Orange vision of the apocalypse, La Fin Du Monde.
