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Arturetto Landi, operas for the nose

Arturetto Landi is Italian, trained as a chemist, and became a perfumer by chance. A temporary job at a fragrance company in England changed his path. After growing up on the Italian Riviera with a father who was a chef, he trained at H&R in Holzminden, then worked in New York, Paris, Tokyo, Hamburg, Vienna, and Dubai.

The Middle East introduced him to agarwood, which became the backbone of his work. His style is expansive, dense, and theatrical. He likes warm, woody, leathery oud, combined with resins, ambers, flowers, and spices. Contrasts prevail over restraint.

In 2014, he launched his own house. His philosophy can be summed up in five words: modesty, patience, imagination, passion, discernment.

Simone Lo Bue, Italian perfumer: from LVMH to niche perfumery

Simone Lo Bue is an Italian creative perfumer, Deputy R&D Director at Moellhausen since 2022.

Trained in chemistry and inspired by music, theater, and the arts, he designs fragrances as sensory narratives, where each raw material contributes to an emotion.

After international experience in cosmetics and perfumery, he established his signature in niche perfumery. His motto, “beautifying the world through fragrance,” sums up an expressive, sensitive, and deeply narrative approach to creation.

Arturetto Landi, operas for the nose

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Arturetto Landi is Italian, trained as a chemist, and became a perfumer by chance. A temporary job at a fragrance company in England changed his path. After growing up on the Italian Riviera with a father who was a chef, he trained at H&R in Holzminden, then worked in New York, Paris, Tokyo, Hamburg, Vienna, and Dubai. The Middle East introduced him to agarwood, which became the backbone of his work. His style is expansive, dense, and theatrical. He likes warm, woody, leathery oud,...

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Simone Lo Bue, Italian perfumer: from LVMH to niche perfumery

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Simone Lo Bue is an Italian creative perfumer, Deputy R&D Director at Moellhausen since 2022. Trained in chemistry and inspired by music, theater, and the arts, he designs fragrances as sensory narratives, where each raw material contributes to an emotion. After international experience in cosmetics and perfumery, he established his signature in niche perfumery. His motto, “beautifying the world through fragrance,” sums up an expressive, sensitive, and deeply narrative approach to creation.

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Sidonie Grandperret: a perfumer between precision and emotion

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Sidonie Grandperret is a French perfumer whose career combines scientific rigor, expertise in raw materials, and artistic sensitivity. Trained in chemistry and then in flavors and perfumery, she began her career in Grasse at Haarmann & Reimer, under the supervision of Jean-Claude Ellena, before working in quality control and then in creation. Today a Senior Perfumer at LUZI, she develops a precise and expressive olfactory signature, attentive to the personality of materials and their...

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Portrait of Jean-Claude Ellena

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Jean-Claude Ellena prefers ellipsis to emphasis. Born in Grasse into a family of perfumers, he joined Antoine Chiris at the age of sixteen, where he learned about raw materials through contact with the old masters. His olfactory style seeks clarity, movement, and the right emotion. Each formula seems stripped of the superfluous in order to let its central idea breathe. Former exclusive perfumer for Hermès, he approaches his craft with the precision of an artisan and the sensitivity of a...

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Marine Ipert, a clear line in the tumult of sensations

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Marine Ipert grew up in the south of France, between sea and mountains, to the rhythm of lavender, mimosa, jasmine, and orange blossom blooms. A mother passionate about perfumes, a father attentive to the family garden, and, at the age of thirteen, a decisive encounter with a perfumer from Grasse awakened her vocation. After studying chemistry and at ISIPCA, she trained at IFF and then at the Symrise school, before joining Takasago in 2023. A draughtswoman since childhood, she conceives...

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Yuri Gutsatz, the rebel who gave the perfumer a face again

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Yuri Gutsatz (1914-2005) left his mark on the history of perfumery by championing a simple idea: the perfumer is an author. Born in Saint Petersburg and later settled in Paris, he worked for Roure before collaborating with several major houses. In 1975, he founded Le Jardin Retrouvé, often regarded as one of the first niche perfume houses created by an independent perfumer. There, he championed free creation, guided by emotion rather than marketing. As co-founder of the Osmothèque in 1990, he...

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Perfume as an Inner Landscape: A Portrait of Perfumer Mirella Pomina

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Mirella Pomina is a Swiss perfumer whose career illustrates the power of perseverance and high standards. After joining the fragrance house LUZI in 2001 as an apprentice perfumer, she rose through the ranks until she was named Principal Perfumer in 2026. Inspired by nature, the Swiss mountains, travel, music, and the arts, she has developed an olfactory style characterized by balance, finesse, and sensitivity. Her creations emphasize luminous harmonies and lasting emotions, driven by an...

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The Subtle Art of Perfumer Urs Castelletti

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Urs Castelletti creates fragrances that reflect his personality: precise, balanced, and deeply harmonious. A perfumer at LUZI since the late 1980s, he favors an olfactory style in which each ingredient naturally finds its place. His creations eschew spectacular effects in favor of building a lasting emotional impact, carried by woody, amber, oriental, or floral accords of great fluidity. His career path—which began in the laboratory before he became a perfumer—has given him a technical...

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When Vines and Roses Share the Same Furrow: A Portrait of Lauriane Guignon

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Lauriane Guignon has a unique background. She is a perfumer, winemaker, and producer of perfume plants. She practices these three professions at Mas Ricardenque, a family estate in Callian, in the Grasse region, where 8,000 Centifolia rose bushes grow alongside 2.5 hectares of organic vineyards. She comes from a century-old lineage of winemakers and perfume flower growers, and her creations are born from the terroir before they reach the bottle. Each fragrance she creates for her own brand...

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Claudio Zucca, the Architect of Memories

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Born in 1985 in the province of Milan, Claudio Zucca grew up in a home where scents held a special place, thanks to his mother’s love for the world of fragrances. This informal education shaped an olfactory sensibility that his career as an architect would only refine, without ever extinguishing it. It was during a personally challenging period that he shifted from architecture to fragrance creation, through a self-taught process marked by late-night experiments, the study of raw materials,...

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Miguel Matos: The Man Who Thinks in Scents

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An art journalist turned self-taught perfumer, Miguel Matos is one of the most distinctive figures in European niche perfumery. As editor of Fragrantica since 2013, he brings the analytical rigor of a critic to his compositions: his fragrances do not seek immediate beauty, but rather fertile imperfection, sharp edges, and the imbalance that captures the attention. A two-time winner of the Art and Olfaction Awards—for “Young Hearts” in 2020 and “Tabacco Smeraldo” in 2023—he creates...

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In the folds of leather and patchouli: the olfactory itinerary of Eve Miralles

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Eve Miralles came to perfumery through rigor. Through a desire to understand what molecules do to emotion. And with a particular curiosity, typical of scientific minds, which means never being satisfied with a superficial answer. Now Senior Perfumer at Cosmo International Fragrances in Barcelona, Eve Miralles is one of those designers who work in the shadows of the big brands, far from the spotlight of mainstream perfumery, but who imagine fragrances that travel on the skin of thousands of...

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