David Apel

“Embrace the unexpected in life, it’s usually a gift,” says Dave Apel. David Apel, VP and Senior Perfumer at Symrise, is one of the top-ranked professionals in his field internationally. He has composed numerous highly regarded fragrances, many of which have won American and European Fragrance Foundation Awards.

David began his career in 1980 in the Givaudan fragrance laboratories, where he became fascinated by the raw materials of perfume creation and embarked on a journey to study perfumery. After his apprenticeship, studies at home and abroad and leading the Chromatography laboratory, he became a perfumer.

From 1993-1997 David worked as a perfumer for fine fragrances in Paris, at Fragrance Resources, eventually returning to the US to open their Fine Fragrance Creation Center in New York. He returned to Givaudan in 2001 as Executive Perfumer of Fine Fragrance and joined the Symrise team in 2007, bringing with him a wealth of international expertise and of course his passion for creating beautiful, luxurious fragrances.

Company: Symrise

Also worked with: Symrise, Givaudan

Web: symrise.com