• It is at the six years age that Laurent Assoulen enters to the National Conservatory of Lyon.
  
  Ten years later, he understands that the jazz is the form most adapted to his freedom of thinking.
  
  Following that, it resumes its musical studies and reinstates the Conservatory of Lyon (Jazz section) to study with Mario STANCHEV. He comes out 3 years from it later, graduate...
  
  In love with the sounds, he studies, in parallel, the Foreign Languages at the University of Lyon (LEA). Definitively in love with the senses in their globality, his professional life is directed finally around the perfumes. He then becomes key account manager in an international company for creation of perfumes.
• He is starting then his double life...
  
  At the office, the day, he imagines with his perfumers, fragrances for the brands, the night it is on his piano that he dreams and composes, still inspired by his "perfumed blotters" of the day.
  
  With his first album « reasonances », warmly welcomed by the press (MIDEM Artist 2008 and FNAC Artist) he comes back, 2 years later to his passion of perfume by analysing the musical correspondances.
  
  He creates, with the famous company Givaudan, perfumes on the base of his own musical compositions.
  
  The first perfumed concert is born (www.musiscent.com).
• He is, once again, warmly welcomed by the press which underlines the novelty and creativity of this project, highlighted by the first perfumed cd « MUSIsCent », with 5 perfumes in it.
  
  Many « perfumed concerts » in different places in France and abroad push his creativity into the recording of his next album : MUSC, based on magic conversations between the double bass (Marc michel Lebevillon) and the piano on one side and the drums (Matthieu Chazarenc) together with the piano on the other side.
  
  Septembre 2011, the international museum of perfumery in grasse set an olfactive-musical display to enhance his work on one hand and on the other one his new album MUSC accompany this wonderful adventure.

Laurent ASSOULEN (www.laurentassoulen.com), Pianist-composer, having worked during several years in the creation of Fragrances before devoting himself completely to the music, gathers in this album, his two fields of competence, his two passions. In collaboration with Guillaume Flavigny, perfumer of Givaudan company, passioned by music, creator of these 5 Perfumes, they composed these 5 weddings. A music=its perfume. And conversely The incredible relationship between resonances of the raw materials and their sound echoes.