DAVID APEL

David Apel, VP and Senior Perfumer for Symrise, is one of the internationally top-ranked professionals in his field. 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 fragrance laboratories as Givaudan, where he became captivated by the raw materials of perfume creation and embarked on a journey to study perfumery. After the apprenticeship, studies at home and abroad, and heading the Chromatography laboratory, he became a Perfumer.

From 1993-1997, David worked as a fine fragrance perfumer in Paris, joining Fragrance Resources and 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 then joined the Symrise team in 2007, bringing with him a wealth of international expertise and, of course, his passion for creating beautiful, luxurious fragrances.