All IN FINE perfumes are developed by master perfumer Jean Patout, who still respects the ancient tradition of the profession. Jean Patout is a nose with a high reputation who used to work and create perfumes for fashion designer in the seventies (among which Lancôme). After having spent several years creating for others, he decided to create his own brand: In Fine. That’s how In Fine was born in 1979.
I was born in Commercy on the first of July 1952. That’s where I spent my childhood in a small village of Lorraine, more surrounded by cows then people ... I probably do not have to explain how deeply the fragrances of the countryside where penetrating ... When I think about it now, I realise how strongly those odours influenced my childhood and how sensitive I became to it, much more by the way then all the other farmer sons and daughters, for whom those fragrances were probably too familiar.
Some other scents had their influence as well: my father used to manage a packaging company where mainly wood was processed. How lovely to smell those flavours at the evening when I came home from school, smells from beech trees, popular trees fir-wood sawdust ...
I then studied in Nancy, where the world of fragrances was temporarily put between brackets and a pause was installed. Until the coincidence leads me towards a new carrier, which until then was still oriented in the technical branch. In 1977 I’m looking for a job in the marketing line, that’s where I meet again the world of scents, when I trespass the huge doors of : Lancôme.
At the first contact my emotion was enormous and I knew : " THAT IS FOR ME".
After two years of discovery at Lancôme I decided to create my own company to develop and commercialise perfumes : In august 1979 ‘Parfums Nadine Patout’ is born, which will later create the brand IN FINE.
I’m completely passionate by the job and permanently in touch with the clients in my show room. Quite quickly I notice the fascinating link between the choice of perfume and the character of the person choosing it.
Unbelievable but true : the personality influences the choice of perfumes.
That’s where my research starts, so I completely sift to the bottom books about perfume, but…. nothing about the subject. So I start thresh out scientific magazines concerning the 5 senses : all senses are being treated in detail, with the exception of ... the olfactory sense. Therefore scientists refer to the perfumers, and they merely talk about the arbitrary preference of perfumes: Mme X loves this perfume, which Mme Y does not love at all, because the nose is a undefined sense. It smells differently depending on who smells it.
So, I’m not satisfied. Still wishing to show the link between personality and choice of perfume. It took me 20 years to ask myself the RIGHT question, which would offer me the RIGHT answer:
“ Why did nature give us a nose ?”
To smell perfumes ?
Of course not ! But to survive !
From then on it becomes quite clear, the nose is most certainly NOT a arbitrary sense !
After a few more years, I wrote my book "Pied de nez" in which I settle with some nomenclature of the perfume world ...
My top moment is the creation of the brand IN FINE, which in subtle way underlines all the sensations and sensitiveness of your character.
So, I say according to perfumes, let your nose lead you...
IN FINE has today 50 unique and outspoken perfumes, among which, perfumes for ladies and … perfumes for gentlemen, all with names that can only make you dream and imagine, going from ‘Versailles’ and ‘Victoria’ to ‘Papeete’ and ‘Manamah’.