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3 years ago - 07.12.2020
Chartered Accountant, Chartered Surveyor, why not Chartered Perfumer?
The International Society of Perfumer-Creators has anounced it will publish a perfumer's charter. Its aim is to define the job they call Perfumer-Creator. This is one step on the road to giving the profession a recognised status. This, it is hoped, will help perfume to be legally recognised as a work of the mind, thus giving it protection under copyright law. By defining perfume as a creation, the charter avoids the question of whether perfume is a work of art or not, a dispute which led to legal protection of a formula being rejected by the high court in Paris. According to Roudnitska, the judges ruled that because a perfume can be made by a compounding machine it is not the product of an artistic act.
The SIPC, which is chaired by Calice Becker, also aims to raise awareness of perfumery among the general public. They hope that it will no longer be the case that 'perfumer, thy name is nobody', as Yuri Gutsatz railed in a plenary session of the French Society of Perfumers, but people will actually know who Ernest Beaux was, and that it wasn't Jean Paul Gaultier who composed Le Mâle.
https://www.perfumer-creators.com/en...tor-charter-35
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