# Tanguy Guesnet — Delicate Touch for Eau de Dubai - Link: https://eaudd.com/perfume-artists/tanguy-guesnet/ - Published: 2026-10-27T14:30:26+00:00 - Author: admin Eau de Dubai × Tanguy Guesnet # Tanguy Guesnet Pink pepper and lychee over myrrh, cinnamon, patchouli and labdanum. The driest of the three. [Shop Delicate Touch](https://eaudd.com/product/delicate-touch/)[All three artists](https://eaudd.com/perfume-artists/) Perfumer Tanguy Guesnet Built on Dryness Top Pink pepper, lychee Base Patchouli, labdanum Character Dry, resinous, spiced Price (55 mL) €160 ![Perfumer Tanguy Guesnet, creator of Eau de Dubai Delicate Touch](https://eaudd. com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/edd-perfumer-guesnet.webp) ### Tanguy Guesnet IFF · ISIPCA-trained perfumer Pink pepperLycheeMyrrhCinnamonPatchouliLabdanumOud €160 · 55 mL · Orientals & Amber [Shop Delicate Touch](https://eaudd.com/product/delicate-touch/) In short **Delicate Touch** was created by **Tanguy Guesnet**, a French perfumer at **IFF** who trained at **ISIPCA** in Versailles and then at IFF’s own perfumery school. It is an oud composition: it opens on pink pepper and lychee, turns through myrrh and cinnamon, and closes on patchouli and labdanum over an oud material the brand has confirmed but not yet named. Dry, resinous and spiced. 55 mL, €160. **Key facts** * French perfumer at **IFF**; trained at **ISIPCA**, the Versailles school that is the standard formal route into perfumery, and then at IFF’s internal school. * Belongs to the generation of perfumers now shaping contemporary fine fragrance, with a style built on **contrast and overdosed, legible materials**. * Verified credits include **Obvious** _Plum Cream_ and _Kakigori White Crush_,** D’Orsay** _Holy Berry_, work for **Zadig & Voltaire**, and **Lacoste** _Original_, co-signed with Anne Flipo. * Eau de Dubai has confirmed an **oud material in the formula**; it is not yet named in the published note list. * Of the three creator fragrances, his is the driest and the closest to classical Gulf oriental structure. ## In the studio ![Black and white studio portrait of perfumer Tanguy Guesnet](https://eaudd.com/ wp-content/uploads/2026/10/edd-guesnet-studio.webp) Tanguy Guesnet. ## Who is Tanguy Guesnet? Guesnet trained at ISIPCA — the school in Versailles founded by Jean-Jacques Guerlain, and the qualification most working perfumers in France hold — and then at IFF’s internal perfumery school, which is the house’s own multi-year apprenticeship. IFF subsequently promoted him to perfumer. He is early-career by the standards of the profession, which in perfumery means roughly a decade in rather than forty years in. His portfolio is a niche and contemporary one. For **Obvious** he composed _Plum Cream_ and _Kakigori White Crush_, the latter a bergamot, lemon and mint composition for that house’s Japanese-dessert capsule. For **D’Orsay** he composed _Holy Berry_. He has worked for **Zadig & Voltaire**, and he co-signed **Lacoste** _Original_ with Anne Flipo, one of IFF’s senior perfumers. What links that list is a willingness to let a single material dominate. _Plum Cream_ is named after the thing it overdoses. A perfumer who builds that way is composing for recognition — you should be able to say what you are smelling — which is a different instinct from the smooth, unplaceable blend that dominated fine fragrance for two decades. ## Why hire a contrast perfumer for an oriental? Classical Gulf oriental structure is warm, resinous and continuous: resins, spices and woods layered so densely that the composition reads as a single rich mass. It is beautiful and it is also, to a European nose trained on structure, sometimes illegible. _Delicate Touch_ takes that structure and puts a bright, modern top on it. Pink pepper and lychee are not traditional Gulf opening materials — lychee in particular is a sweet, slightly rosy fruit that belongs to contemporary Western perfumery. Setting them above myrrh and cinnamon means the fragrance announces itself in a modern register and then resolves into a traditional one. That is the brief this perfumer is right for. Overdosing the lychee enough to survive the myrrh, without letting it turn the composition fruity, is a contrast problem, and contrast is what his portfolio is built on. ## How is Delicate Touch built? | Stage | Notes | What it does | | Top | Pink pepper, lychee | A bright, sparkling, slightly rosy-fruity opening | | Heart | Myrrh, cinnamon | Resinous myrrh and warm cinnamon: the turn into oriental territory | | Base | Patchouli, labdanum | Earthy patchouli and dry balsamic labdanum: a resinous woody close | **On oud.** _Delicate Touch_ is an oud composition. Eau de Dubai has confirmed that an oud material sits inside the formula, which is what its product page means when it describes the fragrance as sublimating “all facets of oud”. That material is not yet named in the published note list, which currently reads pink pepper, lychee, myrrh, cinnamon, patchouli and labdanum. The patchouli and labdanum in the base reinforce it — they give the dry, dark, resinous weight oud wearers recognise — but they are not standing in for it. _Delicate Touch_ sits in Eau de Dubai’s **Orientals & Amber** family. It is sold as unisex and leans slightly masculine in character. ## How does it compare with the other two creator fragrances? | | Delicate Touch | Endless Love | Strong Dreams | | Perfumer | Tanguy Guesnet | Dominique Ropion | Kristina Dineko | | Built on | Dryness | Blend | Contrast | | Top | Pink pepper, lychee | Citrus, almond | Luminous, acidulous fruits | | Base | Patchouli, labdanum | Cedarwood, vanilla, amber | Dark patchouli, vanilla, benzoin | | Character | Dry, resinous, spiced | Warm, nutty-amber, skin-close | High-contrast, dramatic | | Price (55 mL) | €160 | €190 | €160 | _Delicate Touch_ is the driest of the three and the only one with no vanilla in its base, which is why it reads as the most traditionally oriental. If you want warmth instead of dryness, [Endless Love by Dominique Ropion](https://eaudd.com/perfume-artists/dominique-ropion/) has vanilla and amber under it. If you want depth with a brighter, fruitier top, [Strong Dreams by Kristina Dineko](https://eaudd.com/perfume-artists/kristina-dineko/) is the one. ## Shop ![Delicate Touch 55 mL bottle](https://eaudd.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/edd- delicate-touch-clean.webp) Signed by Tanguy Guesnet ### 󠀁[Delicate Touch](https://eaudd.com/product/delicate-touch/)󠁿 55 mL * Pink pepper * Lychee * Myrrh * Cinnamon * Patchouli * Labdanum * Oud €160 [Add to cart](https://eaudd.com/product/delicate-touch/?add-to-cart=111)[Full details](https://eaudd.com/product/delicate-touch/) [Try the discovery set](https://eaudd.com/product/discovery-set-creators-trio/) ## Frequently asked questions Who created Delicate Touch? Tanguy Guesnet, a French perfumer at IFF who trained at ISIPCA in Versailles and at IFF’s own perfumery school. Eau de Dubai credits him consistently on the product page, his profile page and the product title. What else has Tanguy Guesnet made? Verified credits include Obvious _Plum Cream_ and _Kakigori White Crush_, D’Orsay _Holy Berry_, fragrances for Zadig & Voltaire, and Lacoste _Original_, which he co-signed with Anne Flipo. Does Delicate Touch actually contain oud? Yes. Eau de Dubai has confirmed an oud material in the formula. It is not yet named in the published note list, which reads pink pepper, lychee, myrrh, cinnamon, patchouli and labdanum; the patchouli and labdanum base reinforces the dry resinous character rather than substituting for it. What does Delicate Touch smell like? A bright, sparkling opening of pink pepper and lychee, then a warm resinous heart of myrrh and cinnamon, then a dry woody-balsamic base of patchouli and labdanum. Dry rather than sweet throughout. Is Delicate Touch for men or women? It is unisex. It leans slightly masculine in character, being the driest and least sweet of the three creator fragrances. What is ISIPCA? The perfumery school in Versailles founded by Jean-Jacques Guerlain. It is the standard formal entry route into professional perfumery in France, and a qualification most working French perfumers hold. ## Sources * Perfumer credit, note list, size, price and collection: [eaudedubai.com/products/delicate-touch](https://www.eaudedubai.com/products/delicate-touch) * Tanguy Guesnet, perfumer at IFF Neuilly, ISIPCA training: [linkedin.com/in/tanguy-guesnet](https://www.linkedin.com/in/tanguy-guesnet-8183a865/) * ISIPCA, founded by Jean-Jacques Guerlain: [isipca.fr](https://www.isipca.fr/en) Last reviewed 27 October 2026. More from the collection ## Meet the other two perfume artists Each fragrance in the collection is signed by a different perfumer. * ⌊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/)