Senior Fragrance Creation & Product Development Lead

Palomba General Trading; Abu Dhabi; Hybrid; AED 357,000 - 536,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Performance-related compensation

Medical insurance

International travel

Fragrance-house collaboration

Supplier and perfumer development

Participation in international perfume

Direct influence over fragranceConcept

Job summary

Palomba General Trading LLC seeks a senior fragrance professional to lead creation and development for Middle Eastern and international markets. The Head will oversee concept to final fragrance, coordinating perfumers, raw materials, and consumer positioning.

The role requires balancing artistic and technical perfumery skills, managing briefs, evaluating submissions, and guiding development through stability, performance, and cost considerations.

Qualifications

• Minimum 8 years professional fragrance-industry experience preferred.
• Significant fine-fragrance development experience.
• Direct experience working with professional perfumers.
• Strong professional olfactory evaluation ability.
• Experience managing fragrance briefs.
• Experience leading fragrance modifications.
• Strong understanding of natural and synthetic raw materials.
• Understanding of fragrance performance.
• Experience with premium or luxury fragrance strongly preferred.
• Middle East fragrance experience strongly advantageous.
• Excellent English required.
• French advantageous.
• Arabic advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Develop new fragrance concepts.
• Create professional olfactory briefs.
• Define fragrance families and creative directions.
• Work directly with perfumers.
• Evaluate initial submissions.
• Lead modification rounds.
• Guide raw-material choices.
• Develop product stories based on genuine fragrance structure.
• Coordinate technical feasibility.
• Evaluate performance and longevity.
• Support cost optimisation without destroying the fragrance.
• Coordinate sample development.
• Support final formula approval.
• Develop proactive fragrance collections.
• Monitor new materials and fragrance trends.
• Build a structured development pipeline.
• Participate in customer and partner presentations.

Skills

Fragrance development

Perfumer collaboration

Brief management

Olfactory evaluation

Market awareness

Team leadership

Job description

Palomba General Trading LLC seeks a senior fragrance professional to lead creation and development for Middle Eastern and international markets. The Head will oversee concept to final fragrance, coordinating perfumers, raw materials, and consumer positioning.

The role requires balancing artistic and technical perfumery skills, managing briefs, evaluating submissions, and guiding development through stability, performance, and cost considerations.