[2] Robert's father, Joseph Robert, was the Chief Perfumer at Chiris, who gave François Coty some of his first lessons,[3] and developed the solvent extraction process that revolutionised how the perfumery industry produced raw materials.
[3] By 1919 the younger Robert was also working at Chiris alongside perfumers Vincent Roubert, Ernest Beaux and Henri Alméras.
[4] He later joined Parfums d'Orsay,[5] where his one of his most significant creations was the fragrance Le Dandy in 1923.
[6] Le Dandy was a fashionable floral aldehyde, which although marketed to men became a favourite with young women of the 1920s.
[8] After the outbreak of World War II, Robert moved to New York City and continued to work as a Perfumer at Coty from 1940 to 1943.