Daniela (Roche) Andrier was born in Heidelberg. She studied philosophy at the Sorbonne before deciding on a career in perfume. She started as a trainee at Chanel in 1988; the following year she began attending perfumery school at Roure. She is currently with Givaudan, and is married to Gilles Andrier, Givaudan's CEO.
When people ask me how I come up with a formula for a new perfume, I’m not sure I know myself. It’s like a wild bird that sings only when nobody’s watching. In a way, perfumery is like other creative processes, such as writing or painting, where you might have a theme or know what colours you’re going to use, but where there’s still that element of magic and it just comes out of you. Sure, creating a fragrance involves equations and formulas...but at its heart it’s an emotional process, evoking all sorts of things. — From A Life in the Day: Daniela Andrier at the UK Times Online.
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