Carole Calvez has always had a passion for the world of fragrance. After studying pharmacy, specializing in cosmetics, and earning an MBA in luxury marketing, she joined the Givaudan fragrance house, where she first began creating scents and translating a wide range of olfactory universes into words and images. In 2017, she completed her perfumery training at the Cinquième Sens Institute in Paris.

In 2019, she founded Iris & Morphée, an olfactory design studio-laboratory based at JAD (Jardin des Métiers d’Art et du Design) in Sèvres.

Carole Calvez creates exhibition scenographies and olfactory mediations, and is regularly commissioned by major scenography and architecture agencies and institutions such as the Louvre Museum, the National Maritime Museum, Villa Savoye, the Museum of Air and Space, the Cité du Vin in Bordeaux, the Museum of Confluences, and the Manufacture de Sèvres.

As a perfumer-creator, she also embarks on an independent exploration of the sense of smell. Her olfactory creations (installations, performances, objects) have been presented at prestigious events such as Milano Design Week (IT) and Art Basel Paris, as well as in cultural institutions like the Bard Museum (US), Moesgaard Museum (DK), the Neuchâtel Museum of Natural History (CH), and La Friche La Belle de Mai.

In 2025, she was awarded the Mira grant (International Artistic Research Mobility) from the Institut Français, in collaboration with Marie Levoyet. This continues her ongoing collaborative approach with artists (such as Brognon & Rollin, Emeka Ogboh, Anaïs Tondeur) and designers (such as Marta Bakowski, Tony Jouanneau, Cécile Planchais).

She also collaborates with scientists, historians, and archaeologists on olfactory reconstructions inspired by the past (including Erika Wicky, Barbara Huber from the Max Planck Institute, Cecilia Bembibre from the UCL Institute for Sustainable Heritage, and Lavoue Guillaume from Centrale Lyon ENISE).

An active member of the Nez en Herbe association since 2018 and of ICOM (International Council of Museums), Carole Calvez joined the European Odeuropa project in 2022, dedicated to the study of olfactory heritage and sensory research.