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 to think. He begins the Improvisation on his classical sheets ... During several years, he learns this musical expression while going every Saturday afternoon at the jam sessions of the Hot Club Jazz of Lyon, to discover the rudiments of the improvisation there. At home, he listens to and raises phrased pianists Oscar Peterson, Ahmad Jamal, Chick Corea, Michel Petrucciani, etc... 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, it is time for him to cross the step and he decides to give a new orientation to his existence: finished the life of company, it is henceforth behind its piano that he puts in music his olfactive travels. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.