
Founder & Creative Director
JEAN-DAVID JACOBY
Hellenist himself. Jean-David fell in love with Greece at the age of 6, after a family trip to Santorini in the late 1980s. Nurturing a true passion for the Aegean sea and the Mediterranean, he has returned to Greece every year for about 15 years and has already visited more than 20 different islands from Dodecanese, Sporades and Cyclades…
Passionate about the invisible world of scent since childhood, he has more than 20 years of experience in the luxury & fragrance industry where he has held major roles in big international groups. In 2024, he decided to launch Hellenist with the ambition to share with the world his passions for Greece and the art of scent creation.

Artist
CARLO AMEN
From canvas to skin, from concrete to steel via wood, Carlo Amen plays with materials, shapes and colours to help us discover a universe of his own... Passionate about primitive art and the history of disappeared civilizations, his works are in the continuity of naive expressions, keeping only the essence of his inspirations like the sweetness of life in the Mediterranean islands.
His “neo-cubist" approach, as he likes to call it, allows him to represent a part of his reality without being encumbered by it. His flat surfaces, lines and faces become the naive expression of his observation of contemporary society.

Perfumer
ALEXANDRA CARLIN
At the age of 18, Alexandra Carlin happened to hear an interview with a famous perfumer on the radio. She had just discovered the job of her dreams. Her vision of the future was turned upside down: she had imagined becoming a journalist or novelist, yet this avid reader, in love with words and images alike, abandoned all literary ambitions in favour of chemistry studies.
A Parisienne born and bred, she trained in Grasse, New-York and Paris where she finally collaborated with the perfumer from the radio : Maurice Roucel, who became her mentor. She likes to mix different arts together and enriches her creations with her diverse tastes, and travels which have helped deepen her olfactory culture and given her firsthand experience of natural raw materials. Clear-minded, “neither academic nor docile,” she enjoys exploring different paths and subverting expectations.

Perfumer
SUZY LE HELLEY
Passionate about nature from a very young age, Suzy Le Helley draws her inspiration from the diversity of scents, plants and flavours that she discovers through her travels. After spending her childhood sharpening her senses, Suzy Le Helley decided to become a perfumer as soon as she learned of the existence of this occupation.
Trained at the Symrise Perfumery School and alongside the company’s greatest perfumers, she was noticed by Annick Ménardo master perfumers, who would become her mentor. Keen on botany, she grew her sense of smell by plunging her nose into the rose bouquets of her grandmother and didn’t miss an opportunity to go meet producers of natural raw materials. She likes to discover, through her travels, plant varieties that would inspire for her a new accord.