Perfumery Practice

Perfumery for me is an independent artistic practice equal in weight to sound and performance. Fragrance functions as statement, ritual object, and as a fragrance itself.

Education and Foundation

I studied with an art historian of perfumery, a chemist-perfumer, and an aroma chemist-experimenter. It was a private perfumery school in St. Petersburg, led by passionate and highly experienced professors who instilled in me a deep love for the classics. I feel profound gratitude for this subtle, intensive, and uncompromising initiation into the craft. Trainings took place within a private collection of masterpieces spanning the 18th century to the present. 

Direct work with legendary compositions shaped my deep respect for the pyramid structures of Ernest Daltroff and Jacques Guerlain and my passion for the radical, provocative creations of Germaine Cellier.

Philosophy and Method

My compositions combine classical structures with rupture: chypres, fougères, Guerlain-inspired skeletons reassembled into surrealist narratives, industrial atmospheres, and ritual motifs. Each fragrance is treated as a state, an embodied landscape of memory and transformation.

I create limited experimental editions accompanying fashion collections, bespoke compositions for private commissions, and lecture programs on perfumery history and the psycho-emotional force of scent.

Key compositions:

Idiocy

 Apple blossom and cream opening into vanilla absolute, 

magnolia from Bali, Javanese vetiver, sandal amiris,

patchouli, atlas cedar, 

incense, base of water, 

iodine, tar, ambergris.

A ritual structure unfolding through smoke, heated wood, nerve tar, and mineral resonance.

Iron Cradle (Orphan Collection) 

 Wormwood,

 thuja, ozone, juniper in the top, 

heart of gypsum, damask and gallica rose,

 tobacco, iris, elemi, base of earth, patchouli, 

oak moss, musk, incense, 

white cognac.

A vision of sacralized cruelty, altar and ruin made fragrant.

Pyromaniac Perfume 

 Opening of thuja and peppers,

 heart of Indonesian vetiver, black tea,

 guaiac wood, 

sandal amiris, salt, myrrh, base of cedar, 

ambergris, tar, castoreum, 

iodine, incense.

An ecstatic act of arson, smoke and storm carried into animal warmth.

Toy 

 Wormwood artemisia, black pepper, 

ozone, wet soil, 

water lily, hawthorn,

 bluebells, figs, violet leaf, 

base of wax, milk, salt, musk. 

A sacred Scandinavian play, a storm-field of earth and water, violet and fig swelling into ozone, fading to mineral clarity.

Odiosa (Unbearable) 

 hawthorn, wormwood, cardamom,

 pepper, candle soot, petitgrain, 

marigold, water lily, galbanum, 

violet, tobacco, peat, 

tar, rose, fig, opoponax, magnolia absolute, 

tonka bean, iris, vanilla absolute, castoreum, spices.

Created for the first solo exhibition and later naming the fashion project, Odiosa evokes arson, oxidized metal, swamp, naiads with copper breath, and iron heat.

Essence of Practice

Perfumery is art equal to fashion and music. It is ritual and chemistry, poetry and structure. Each composition is a multilayered journey, not a perfume to wear but a perfume to inhabit.