[2] Upon returning to France, he worked briefly at the physics laboratory at Dunlop, before answering an advertisement in Le Journal to join Antoine Chiris in Grasse.

There he trained as a perfumer for four years alongside Ernest Beaux and Vincent Roubert.

He was employed as a perfumer by Paul Poiret at the couturier's Parfums de Rosine as of 1923,[1] though certain sources suggest he had worked there since 1914.

[4] In 1925, he left Rosine for the Parfums d’Orsay, working with Henri Robert, though quit soon after.

In 1948, he published his comic novella La grand’soif du trompette Bidard (The Grea’Thirst of the Trumpeter Bidard), inspired by his military service, under the pseudonym Henri de Vérac.