Every fragrance we supply is created by drom, a perfume house founded in 1911 near Munich, Germany, and part of Givaudan, the global leader in flavours and fragrances, since 2019. That matters more than it might seem. A scent that fills your lobby every day for years has to be distinctive, safe, identical in every batch and built to perform in the air of a Singapore building. That is the work of a perfume house, not a trader in oils.
More than a century of perfumery
drom was founded in Munich in 1911 as a family business and grew into an international perfume house, creating fragrances for consumer products and fine fragrance customers around the world. It is headquartered near Munich and manufactures in Germany, China, the USA and Brazil. For more than a hundred years its focus has been fragrance and nothing else.
Part of Givaudan since 2019
In 2019 drom became part of Givaudan, the Swiss company that leads the global flavour and fragrance industry and has the industry’s largest perfumery team. drom continues as a perfume house within Givaudan, combining its own creative heritage with the research, materials and scale of the wider group.
What this means for your scent
Science and materials
Perfumers at a house like drom work with a palette of many hundreds of natural and synthetic materials, including molecules developed within the group for its own perfumers. Fragrances are tested for how they perform and how stable they are over time, which is what a scent diffused all day in a humid, air-conditioned space needs.
Trained perfumers
Becoming a perfumer takes years of training in materials and composition, and senior perfumers build their judgement over many more years of creating fragrances that succeed in the market. That experience is the difference between a scent that is pleasant on a paper strip and one that still works in your lobby after six months. Our article on why fragrance mixing is a perfumer’s job explains why this matters.
Creativity
A signature scent should be recognisably yours. Perfumers translate a brand brief into accords and compositions that cannot be bought off a shelf or matched by nose. See our scent branding and signature scent service.
Consistency
A recorded formula, controlled raw materials and industrial quality control mean your scent smells the same in every outlet and after every refill. “Matched” copies from cheaper suppliers drift from batch to batch.
Safety
Our fragrances are formulated within the IFRA Standards, the fragrance industry’s framework for the safe use of fragrance materials. That matters in spaces full of staff, guests and the public.
How we work together
We look after everything that happens in Singapore: the site assessment, the scent system, installation, calibration and servicing. drom creates the fragrance, whether you choose from our library or commission a bespoke signature scent from a brief we prepare with you. You get a perfume house behind your scent and one local team responsible for how your space smells.
Why the perfume house matters
Many scent suppliers buy oils from traders, often versions of popular scents, with little information about who made them or how. That is why the first question to ask any provider is simple: who makes your fragrances? Our guide to ambient scenting lists the other questions worth asking.
Frequently asked questions
Who makes your fragrances?
drom, a perfume house founded in 1911 near Munich, Germany, and part of Givaudan since 2019.
Is drom part of Givaudan?
Yes. Givaudan completed its acquisition of drom in 2019, and drom continues as a perfume house within the group.
Are your fragrances IFRA compliant?
Yes. Our fragrances are formulated within the IFRA Standards.
Can we have a bespoke scent created for our brand?
Yes. We prepare the brief with you, the scent is created by drom, and we trial it in your space before rollout.
Why does the perfume house matter?
Because it decides how distinctive, safe and consistent your scent is. The machine only delivers what the perfume house creates.
Talk to us about the right scent for your space.