Denise Meles

I was born in Italy, in La Spezia, in May 1985; with less than a month of life, I was taken to the mountains of South Tyrol, where I grew up in close contact with nature. It was very beautiful and I was very alone; my comforts have always been small magical things, like lying down in a meadow on August nights and waiting for the stars to fall. Everything has always had its own scent, even the letters of the alphabet I learned at school, words, numbers, colors. I have synesthetic perception, and this has always contributed to developing in me a great hunger for anything that could stimulate my senses. I attended art school until the fourth grade, although later I graduated in languages after a gap of a few years during which I started by playing the bass and then the guitar. Today I pour my creativity into the creation of perfumed stories; I live happily among my essences in a small town overlooking the sea with my better half and my parrots. I haven’t played a musical instrument again: since I decided to enter the world of perfume, I have clearly felt that it is the guiding thread that I always wanted to find—everything happens through my nose, and this represents for me the most complete art in the world.