Jacques Polge is a French perfumer who works as the head of Parfums Chanel starting in 1978 to 2015, when his son Olivier Polge took over the helm. He is the third director of the perfume division after Ernest Beaux and Henri Robert.Jacques Polge grew up near Avignon, France, where he says he was inspired as a child by the scent of air in the surroundings of Grasse, which was redolent with the scent of jasmine.