Lyn Harris

Harris was born in Halifax, Yorkshire, and spent her childhood between Yorkshire and Scotland. Her early olfactory memories were influential – she has stated that her grandparent’s countryside home in Scotland is something she frequently recalls and is imbued in her work – They grew berries, fruits and flowers in their walled garden and the house was filled with the aromas of home baking, jam making and burning log fires. Harris has said these memories became foundational in her journey as a perfumer.

Later in her native Yorkshire, school holidays were spent working at a local perfumery. It was in these years, and during trips to France that Harris’s curiosity about scent grew, leading her to want to study to become a perfumer.

She moved to Paris in 1992 to study under Monique Schleinger, a perfumer trained by Jean-Carles. She later moved to Grasse to work with a second-generation master perfumer at Robertet, beginning an enduring relationship between Harris and Robertet.