Laurent Marrone

About

Laurent Marrone is a French perfumer whose work has appeared on the contemporary niche scene through brand collaborations rather than a single in-house brief. He is named as the nose behind Moha (2023) for the Indian-cultural niche house Sasva, a gourmand-leaning composition built on chestnut, coffee and caramel over dry woods and vanilla - a brief that places him alongside collaborators including Hamid Merati-Kashani, Jordi Fernandez, Luca Maffei and Christian Carbonnel on the Sasva roster. Beyond the Sasva attribution, Marrone's broader career and training house are not documented in publicly available industry sources at the level of detail seen for senior in-house perfumers at Givaudan, Firmenich, IFF or Robertet. The collaboration model Sasva uses (commissioning multiple independent and house-affiliated noses per release) suggests Marrone works either as a freelancer or as a perfumer within a composition house, but the specific affiliation is not confirmed in community evidence. On the basis of Moha alone, his style as represented in that brief leans toward warm, edible gourmands grounded in dry-wood structure rather than the syrupy oriental register more typical of the Sasva catalogue's Indian-cultural references - a contrast that has been noted in independent reviews of the line.