Ep. 59 Atelier Cologne Co-Founder Sylvie Ganter
Breaking Beauty Podcast
Dear Media, Jill Dunn and Carlene Higgins
4.7 • 996 Ratings
🗓️ 3 April 2019
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Sylvie Ganter worked for brands like Hermes and Fresh before co-creating her boutique fragrance line, Atelier Cologne with her former boss turned husband, Christophe Cervasel. Now celebrating its 10th anniversary, the brand boasts over twenty stand-alone stores around the world. It’s just one example of how indie fragrance brands are pretty much killing it right now, as the thirst for unique signature scents continues.
Now celebrating its 10th anniversary, Atelier Cologne boasts over twenty stand-alone stores around the world— most recently with an outpost at Hudson Yards. The brand is so hot, L’Oréal Luxe scooped it up back in 2016. It’s just one example of how indie fragrance brands are pretty much killing it right now, as the thirst for unique signature scents continues. Come on— who doesn’t love those candy-coloured leather cases that can be monogrammed with custom-engraving?
In this episode, we’ll chat about the best-seller, Orange Sanguine, which has won a FIFI Award (that’s basically the Oscars of the fragrance world!) Sylvie also schools us on the difference between an eau de toilette, eau de parfum, and cologne. You’re also going to hear her tips for finding your own signature scent, how to tell someone you care about that their perfume is killing you and she shares her tips on making fragrance last (or in Carlene’s case, how to apply it so it doesn’t make her delicate nose all stuffy #TRUTH.)
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast is a dear media production. |
| 0:02.8 | I like to describe that Atulae Colan was born at a lot of chaos because when you make a change in your life that is so drastic, |
| 0:10.0 | something that you hadn't planned, that you hadn hadn't anticipated that was not how you were |
| 0:14.1 | picturing your life you sort of don't you don't make any compromises about anything |
| 0:23.0 | hey guys welcome to Breaking Beauty. |
| 0:25.0 | The podcast all about the best-selling beauty products and the damn good stories behind them. |
| 0:29.0 | Were your host, Carleen Higgins and Jill Dunn. |
| 0:32.0 | Hi everybody, welcome back to Breaking Beauty podcast, Hey Carlin. |
| 0:36.0 | Hey, Jill. |
| 0:37.0 | Ooh, you're standing a little nasally once again. |
| 0:40.0 | Once again, but that's not going to stop me from talking about fragrances today. |
| 0:45.0 | Yes, we have our second ever fragrance founder on the show today. |
| 0:49.0 | Yeah, we've got Sylvie Gantr on the mic. |
| 0:52.0 | She is the co-founder of Atelier Cologne, which she launched with her business and life partner, Christoph Servacelle, back in 2009. |
| 1:01.5 | So if you're good at math, you know that was 10 years ago and it's a great time to |
| 1:05.6 | look back at all of the crazy success that this brand has achieved in such a |
| 1:09.5 | short amount of time really. Yeah I think there are a great example of the indie fragrance |
| 1:15.1 | boom and the brands that are kind of killing it right now. They were acquired |
| 1:19.8 | by L'Oreal Lux in 2016 and that was just a couple of years after Lala Bo, another one of our favorites, was acquired by Este Lauder. |
| 1:30.9 | And I think it's because people really want to smell unique. |
| 1:35.6 | They want a scent that isn't so easy to find. |
| 1:39.1 | That forever quest for the signature scent, right? |
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