About Jean-Sandro

Hi, my name is Jean-Sandro. I’m a self-taught French-Italian smell artist, based in Berlin. I make perfumes for people to reveal who they are.

 I believe your personal fragrance should be as distinctive as your signature - a scented reflection of who you are and who you aspire to be.

I see fragrances as a form of poetry, molecular artworks built on tension, contrast and balances of opposites. The elements tell the story, they form a language. The agency of this olfactory language, is where I come in.

Smells convey emotions, emotions become words, and perfume is literature.

How did all this start ?

My hyperactive sense of olfaction has been with me for as long as I can remember. Very early, I began approaching most things through the lense of my nose.

It started as a child, with the cars down my street. I was attracted by their addictive gasoline smell, especially when the engine was still warm. I was learning to walk at that time, so the exhaust pipes where right in front me - quite literally. I noticed they all had a faintly different smell, with nuances in notes of smoke, petroleum gas, tar, greasy rubber, warm metal, plastic and dust. I started to go around and smell all the exhaust pipes of the street. I felt how fascinating smells were. I started smelling everything.

These initial experiences, while growing up in a city and in a family where perfumes were not common or affordable, brought me to different perspectives on “what smells good”. I do not come from a classical smell education, with the archetypal passion for delicate flowers and other “things that smell good”. I was into smells, the uglies and the pretties all together. They all had something to say, a full character out in the open, for those willing to listen.

Later in life, I was disappointed by the perfumes you’d find in department stores. Most of them overpowering, pointlessly gendered, mass-produced consumption goods. They were boring and cliché. Gimmicky bottles and rigid notes full of promises that were never kept.

I loved smells, but I hated perfumes.

So I decided to make my own.

Why Jean-Sandro Parfums ?

I believe it’s important to remember who you are.

In today’s age, it’s easy to forget yourself, drowned in distractions, content and algorithm-refined solicitations. It’s easy to forget the person you wanted to be as a child, the books you’ve read, the little things that make life worth it.

So more than ever, we need to reconnect with ourselves. To reclaim confidence in the person we know we are, with all our flaws and gifts, and to trust the journey we are in. 

And you know scent, the most powerful memory medium, is the best vessel for this.

Is there a brand story ?

no. the story is whatever happens when people make it happen. i hope my scents can help.

expect skin notes and animalic smells, because that’s what I love and there aren’t many of them.

What is this “specific blend of molecules” that make it possible to have a different scent on every person ?

You might remember Molecule01, the single-molecule perfume that pioneered the idea of a fragrance that sublimates your own body odor. The molecule is called Iso E Super. I fell in love with a close cousin of it, and made a proprietary blend based on it.

Second Skin, a pure skin perfume, is mostly this blend with a few additions. Not all my perfumes are skin perfumes though. They all have a skin feeling and enough of my blend in it to spin your body’s natural smell, but there is my own fantasy on top of it:).

How should I store my perfumes ?

Many of you ask this often. The answer:

It’s art, don’t put it in your bathroom!

Fragrances have two enemies: light and heat. Meaning, your bathroom is the worst place of all to store them. A shaded corner in a place with constant room temperature, a clean drawer, or even a perfume cabinet are all fine options.

What is an extrait de Parfum ?

There are several concentration catgeories that every fragrance falls in. The highest, called Extrait de Parfum or simply Parfum, is 30% and above of pure, undiluted perfume oil.

This is what I do - and only this. Because time is the secret ingredient of every good story, scents have to be long-lasting.