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When matter finds its own space: Luca Maffei's signature style

Luca Maffei grew up between Italy and the raw materials that surrounded his family's workshop. Trained in Grasse and then back in Milan, he refined a style based on balance, controlled contrasts and the precision of noble materials.

Co-founder of Atelier Fragranze Milano, he creates fragrances inspired by memories, Italian light and artisanal gestures. His work explores olfactory trajectories where each note finds its rightful place.

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Maya Njie, perfumer of time and memories

As a self-taught perfumer, Maya’s practice was developed through experimentation; the blending of raw materials with a variety of essential oils, aroma compounds and resins; nature and science combining in autobiographical fragrances.

Maya’s olfactory identity draws inspiration from her upbringing, as well as an archive of intimate family photographs from the 1960s; the small Swedish summer house surrounded by mercurial forests, the visits to her grandparents’ sparsely furnished flat on Sunday afternoons, Uncle Lars' and Aunt Erene’s wedding.

A bottling of a time, place and spirit.

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