Céline Ellena

Céline Ellena has always perceived the world through the scents that permeate it. Initially immersed in the study of psychology and linguistics, she finally heeded the call of perfume, that invisible language that tells stories without words. Trained at the ISIPCA in Versailles, she honed her nose in the big houses before setting up her own design studio, NeZeN, in 2010.
A prolific designer, she has created compositions for both prestige perfumeries and everyday scents. From shower gels with notes of fig, peach and cherry for Le Petit Marseillais and Ultra Doux, to scented sun creams for Nivea, and skincare products signed by L'Oréal and Yves Rocher, her accords can be found everywhere. But it is above all in haute parfumerie that she expresses all her sensibility: L'Ambre des Merveilles and Les Parfums de la Maison for Hermès, Sel de Vétiver for The Different Company, not forgetting her creations for Fragonard, Houbigant and J.U.S.
Beyond the raw materials and the bottles, Céline Ellena likes to tell the story of perfume. A lecturer and columnist, she writes for NEZ and La Cuisine des Nez, and contributed to Les Parfums: histoire, anthologie, dictionnaire by Élisabeth de Feydau. In 2009, she launched Chroniques Olfactives, a blog where she describes the scents of everyday life with humour and poetry.
Today, she shares her vision of the olfactory world through several media: on Instagram with #avuedenez, on Facebook with Brève de nez, Le Journal d'un parfumeur dépressif, and more recently on YouTube, where she sketches out a new way of seeing… with the nose.