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Franck Julian Rouas (French: born 5, September 1967, Nice, France) is a French tennis player and perfume designer. Rouas is the owner and CEO of Julian Rouas Paris (JRP) an International Perfume Company and JRP Jackson Perfumes.

Life and career
Rouas began playing tennis at an early age, trained at Nice Sophia Antipolis University and went on to play professionally. In his tennis career, Rouas got an opportunity to provide tennis coaching to HSH Prince Albert of Monaco and Princess Stephanie for several years.

Raised by his grandmother as a part of his extended family, he spent a lot of time with her and became very close to his grandmother who passed away when he was just 16 years old. After his grandmother passed, Rouas was inspired to explore the possibilities of capturing those scents that keep you close to the memories of loved ones. This ignited the passion to research, design and develop memorable fragrances. He started by designing and developing perfume and after shave lotions for Rica Levis which was just the beginning of the vision for creating and developing fragrances.

In 1996, Rouas moved to Los Angeles from France as a professional tennis player and coach and became coach to celebrities like Kevin Costner and Sharon Stone.

Driven by a passion to create, design and develop fragrances, Rouas began working under Guy Benhamou from 1998-2000, designed the glass and developed the fragrance called "Sharon" by Sharon Stone” as well as Beverly Hills Gold, Vanilla Passion, and did the glass design for Davidoff fragrances Cigar , MC Sport, and Facconable.

Julian Rouas Paris Perfumes
In 2008, Rouas founded Julian Rouas Paris. The JRP vision is to develop a world class French luxury brand of pure eco-friendly fragrances and to develop unique custom fragrances for celebrities. JRP has created and released several fragrances; S W I N G Parfum de Golf for men and women, Versailles perfume de femme and d’ homme for women and men, LA City Parfum de femme and parfum d' homme fragrances for women and men and Floyd Mayweather parfum d' home.

JRP Jackson Perfume Collection
A big break came in December 2010 when Joe Jackson partnered with JRP to create and develop a fragrance in memory of his son the late Michael Jackson. [3] Funds generated from the sale of this fragrance would go to the Jackson Family Foundation to support Michael favorite charities.

Working through the Jackson Family Foundation, Joe Jackson grantied legal rights to the French entrepreneur to design and develop fragrances that honors the memory and legacy of Michael. The JRP Jackson Perfume Company was founded.

Despite opposition from Bravado International and the legal case they brought against the project regarding a dispute over using Michael’s image on the packaging and after a long litigation, a favorable settlement was awarded to JRP Jackson Perfume and the case by Bravado International was dismissed without prejudice in a Los Angeles Federal Court.

The Jackson Perfume Collection includes “Jackson Legend” (for women), “Jackson Tribute” (for men) and “Jackson Legacy” (unisex). JRP Jackson Perfume licenses the line of Jackson perfumes in collaboration with the Jackson Family and the Jackson Family Foundation.

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