# The Perfume Artists Behind Eau de Dubai - Link: https://eaudd.com/perfume-artists/ - Published: 2026-10-27T14:07:04+00:00 - Author: admin The Creators Collection # The perfume artists behind _Eau de Dubai_ Three fragrances. Three IFF perfumers. Every composition signed by the person who built it. [Meet the artists](https://eaudd.com/perfume-artists/#artists)[See the collection](https://eaudd.com/shop/) In short Eau de Dubai’s **When East Meets West** collection was composed by three perfumers from **IFF**: **Dominique Ropion**, who worked on _Endless Love_; **Kristina Dineko**, who created _Strong Dreams_; and **Tanguy Guesnet**, who created _Delicate Touch_. Each fragrance is named, signed and traceable to the person who built it. * **3**IFF perfumers * **1**Master Perfumer * **55 mL**each, unisex * Three perfumers, three fragrances, one collection: _Endless Love_, _Strong Dreams_ and _Delicate Touch_. * All three work for or trained at **IFF**, one of the four largest fragrance houses in the world. * **Dominique Ropion** has been an IFF **Master Perfumer** since 2018, credited with _La Vie Est Belle_, _Portrait of a Lady_, _Carnal Flower_, _Alien_ and _Flowerbomb_. * **Kristina Dineko** is a fine fragrance perfumer at **IFF Neuilly**, specialising in natural raw materials. * **Tanguy Guesnet** trained at **ISIPCA** and at IFF’s own perfumery school. * Every page here names the perfumer, their house and their verifiable prior work, so a claim can be checked rather than taken on trust. ## Meet the three perfume artists * ⌊Perfumer Dominique Ropion, creator of Eau de Dubai Endless Love⌉⌊Perfumer Dominique Ropion, creator of Eau de Dubai Endless Love⌉ * ### Dominique Ropion * IFF · Master Perfumer since 2018 * Endless Love€190Fresh & Citrus * Four decades of technical authority, from _Ysatis_ in 1984 to _Portrait of a Lady_ and _Carnal Flower_. For Eau de Dubai he built citrus and almond over cedarwood, vanilla and amber — warm, nutty and close to the skin. * [His story](https://eaudd.com/perfume-artists/dominique-ropion/)[Shop Endless Love](https://eaudd.com/product/endless-love/) * ⌊Perfumer Kristina Dineko, creator of Eau de Dubai Strong Dreams⌉⌊Perfumer Kristina Dineko, creator of Eau de Dubai Strong Dreams⌉ * ### Kristina Dineko * IFF Neuilly · Fine fragrance perfumer * Strong Dreams€160Orientals & Amber * A raw-materials specialist, also behind Alchemist’s _Musc Laiteux_ and _Musc Vanille_. Hers is the composition built on contrast: bright acidulous fruit set directly against dark patchouli, vanilla and benzoin. * [Her story](https://eaudd.com/perfume-artists/kristina-dineko/)[Shop Strong Dreams](https://eaudd.com/product/strong-dreams/) * ⌊Perfumer Tanguy Guesnet, creator of Eau de Dubai Delicate Touch⌉⌊Perfumer Tanguy Guesnet, creator of Eau de Dubai Delicate Touch⌉ * ### Tanguy Guesnet * IFF · ISIPCA-trained perfumer * Delicate Touch€160Oud & Woody * A contemporary nose who lets one material dominate — Obvious _Plum Cream_, D’Orsay _Holy Berry_. Here he puts pink pepper and lychee on top of myrrh, cinnamon, patchouli and labdanum: the driest of the three. * [His story](https://eaudd.com/perfume-artists/tanguy-guesnet/)[Shop Delicate Touch](https://eaudd.com/product/delicate-touch/) ## In the lab ![Blue glass perfumery bottles lined up on a lit shelf](https://eaudd.com/wp-content/ uploads/2026/10/edd-iff-materials-1.webp) ![Eau de Dubai formulation bottles, Endless Love and Strong Dreams, on display shelving]( https://eaudd.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/edd-iff-materials-2.webp) Left: ingredient bottles on the bench. Right: Endless Love and Strong Dreams in their formulation bottles. Each fragrance was built from named materials that were weighed and recorded — which is what a perfumer credit refers back to. ## Why does Eau de Dubai name its perfumers? Most fragrance sold on the Arabic and oriental shelf carries no author. A bottle arrives with a note pyramid, an evocative name and nothing to connect it to a person, a method or a professional reputation. The buyer is asked to trust the packaging. Naming the perfumer removes that ask. A signed composition can be checked: you can look up Dominique Ropion, read what else he has built, and judge whether that record matches the fragrance in your hand. It also changes the commercial relationship. A brand that publishes the name of the person who formulated a product has accepted accountability for it, because the name is attached to a career that a bad formula would damage. This is the same logic that governs the rest of this site. Eau de Dubai publishes the composition, the size, the olfactory family and the creator of each fragrance in the [When East Meets West collection](https://eaudd.com/when-east-meets-west/) rather than describing it in adjectives alone. ## Who are the three perfume artists? | Perfumer | House and title | Fragrance | Size and price | Best known for | | Dominique Ropion | IFF, Master Perfumer since 2018 | [Endless Love](https://eaudd.com/perfume-artists/dominique-ropion/) | 55 mL, €190 | La Vie Est Belle, Portrait of a Lady, Carnal Flower, Alien, Flowerbomb | | Kristina Dineko | IFF Neuilly, fine fragrance perfumer | [Strong Dreams](https://eaudd.com/perfume-artists/kristina-dineko/) | 55 mL, €160 | Alchemist _Musc Laiteux_ and _Musc Vanille_, Le Bonheur _Prime 26_ | | Tanguy Guesnet | IFF, perfumer; trained at ISIPCA and IFF’s perfumery school | [Delicate Touch](https://eaudd.com/perfume-artists/tanguy-guesnet/) | 55 mL, €160 | Obvious _Plum Cream_, _Kakigori White Crush_, D’Orsay _Holy Berry_ | The three were not chosen for the same reason. Ropion brings four decades of technical authority to a composition built for longevity and balance. Dineko brings a raw- materials specialism to a fragrance whose whole effect depends on the contrast between a bright top and a dark base. Guesnet brings a contemporary, contrast-driven style to a resinous oriental that had to feel modern rather than traditional. ## What does “When East Meets West” actually mean? The collection’s premise is a technical one, not a decorative one. Gulf perfumery and European fine perfumery work to different conventions: Gulf compositions are typically base-heavy, built for hours of presence and worn generously; European fine fragrance is typically structured around a legible top-to-base evolution and a controlled trail. Each of the three fragrances is a European-trained perfumer composing within Gulf expectations of richness and longevity. _Endless Love_ resolves into cedarwood, vanilla and amber. _Strong Dreams_ sets fresh fruit against dark patchouli, vanilla and benzoin. _Delicate Touch_ closes on patchouli and labdanum. All three are base- heavy by European standards and legible by Gulf ones, which is the point of the exercise. All three are unisex. All three are 55 mL. Two sit in Eau de Dubai’s **Orientals& Amber** family, and _Endless Love_ is classified under **Fresh & Citrus** despite its amber base, because of how it opens. ## How do the three fragrances differ? | | Endless Love | Strong Dreams | Delicate Touch | | Perfumer | Dominique Ropion | Kristina Dineko | Tanguy Guesnet | | Top | Citrus, almond | Luminous, acidulous fruits | Pink pepper, lychee | | Heart | Jasmine, black pepper | White floral bouquet | Myrrh, cinnamon | | Base | Cedarwood, vanilla, amber | Dark patchouli, vanilla, benzoin | Patchouli, labdanum | | Family | Fresh & Citrus | Orientals & Amber | Orientals & Amber | | Character | Warm, nutty-amber, skin-close | High contrast: bright fruit over a dark base | Dry, resinous, spiced oud | | Price (55 mL) | €190 | €160 | €160 | If you want the warmest and most wearable of the three, start with _Endless Love_. If you want the most dramatic, _Strong Dreams_. If you want oud, and the driest and most traditionally oriental of the three, _Delicate Touch_. ## What does a perfumer credit tell you that a note list does not? A note list describes intent. A perfumer credit describes capability. Two fragrances can publish an identical pyramid — pink pepper, myrrh, cinnamon, patchouli, labdanum — and smell nothing alike, because the pyramid says nothing about the quality of the materials, the proportions, or how many iterations went into the balance. What a credit tells you is who made those decisions and what else they have made. This is also why Eau de Dubai does not describe its fragrances as versions of, or alternatives to, other brands’ perfumes. A composition signed by the perfumer who built it is the opposite claim: it is an original with an author. ## Where do these perfumers sit in the industry? IFF is one of the four largest fragrance and flavour companies in the world, and the house behind a significant share of the fine fragrance on a European department- store counter. A perfumer employed there has access to a captive materials library, an evaluation team and a formulation lab — the infrastructure that separates a professional composition from a blended one. The **Master Perfumer** title that Ropion holds is not an honorific the holder awards themselves: IFF conferred it in 2018, and very few perfumers in the world carry it. **ISIPCA**, where Guesnet trained, is the Versailles school founded by Jean- Jacques Guerlain and the standard formal entry route into the profession. ## Shop the collection * ⌊Eau de Dubai Endless Love 55 ml bottle⌉⌊Eau de Dubai Endless Love 55 ml bottle⌉** Endless Love**_Citrus and almond over cedarwood, vanilla and amber. By Dominique Ropion. €190_[View](https://eaudd.com/product/endless-love/) * ⌊Eau de Dubai Strong Dreams 55 ml bottle⌉⌊Eau de Dubai Strong Dreams 55 ml bottle⌉** Strong Dreams**_Luminous fruits and white florals over dark patchouli, vanilla and benzoin. By Kristina Dineko. €160_[View](https://eaudd.com/product/strong-dreams/) * ⌊Eau de Dubai Delicate Touch 55 ml bottle⌉⌊Eau de Dubai Delicate Touch 55 ml bottle⌉**Delicate Touch**_An oud composition: pink pepper and lychee over myrrh, cinnamon, patchouli and labdanum. By Tanguy Guesnet. €160_[View](https://eaudd.com/product/delicate-touch/) A [discovery set](https://eaudd.com/product/discovery-set-creators-trio/) is the cheaper way to compare all three on skin before committing to a full bottle. ## Why Eau de Dubai Eau de Dubai publishes the perfumer, the full composition, the size and the olfactory family of every fragrance it sells, and ships from the Netherlands with free delivery across NL. Where a fact about a fragrance is not yet confirmed, this site says so rather than filling the gap. ## Frequently asked questions Who creates Eau de Dubai’s perfumes? The three fragrances in the When East Meets West collection were composed by IFF perfumers: Dominique Ropion worked on _Endless Love_, Kristina Dineko created _Strong Dreams_, and Tanguy Guesnet created _Delicate Touch_. Each has a dedicated page on this site with their verifiable prior work. Is Dominique Ropion really involved, or is this a licensing deal? Ropion worked on the composition of _Endless Love_ itself; this is not a name licensed to a finished product. Eau de Dubai names him as the perfumer on the fragrance and describes his contribution to how it was built. What is a Master Perfumer? A title conferred by a fragrance house on a senior perfumer with an exceptional body of work. IFF named Dominique Ropion a Master Perfumer in 2018. It is a company title rather than an industry-wide certification, and only a handful of perfumers hold it at any house. Are all three fragrances unisex? Yes. All three are composed and sold as unisex, in 55 mL bottles. _Endless Love_ leans slightly feminine in character and _Delicate Touch_ slightly masculine, but neither is gendered in how it is formulated or marketed. Which of the three should I try first? _Endless Love_ is the easiest entry point: warm, nutty-amber and close to the skin. _Strong Dreams_ is the most dramatic. _Delicate Touch_ is the driest and most resinous. Trying all three from a discovery set costs less than one full bottle. Do these perfumers work exclusively for Eau de Dubai? No. All three are professional perfumers with portfolios across other houses, which is exactly what makes the credit checkable. Their other work is listed on each perfumer’s page on this site. ## Sources * Dominique Ropion biography, Master Perfumer title (2018), training and creation credits: [en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominique_Ropion](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominique_Ropion) * Perfumer credits, note lists, sizes, prices and collection membership: [eaudedubai.com](https://www.eaudedubai.com/collections/when-east-meets-west) * Kristina Dineko, IFF Neuilly perfumer and natural-materials specialism: [linkedin.com/in/kristinadineko](https://www.linkedin.com/in/kristinadineko/) * Tanguy Guesnet, ISIPCA and IFF training, perfumer at IFF Neuilly: [linkedin.com/in/tanguy-guesnet](https://www.linkedin.com/in/tanguy-guesnet-8183a865/) * ISIPCA: [isipca.fr](https://www.isipca.fr/en) Last reviewed 27 October 2026.