Luigi Cacciatore

I was born in Palermo in 1984 and I’m still living here. After interrupting my medical studies, I transferred part of that knowledge to the invisible world of perfumes. A year of olfactory training with a member of I.S.I.P.C.A. and hundreds of raw materials from all over the world have been my first steps in perfumery. Scents, colors, sounds, and traditions have been—and still are—an essential humus from which to draw lessons and inspiration. The smell that used to permeate the country house in summer when my parents made tomato sauce, that basil... Or the jasmine scent my mother would often put in the drawers of the white laundry. All these impressions have settled like sand in an hourglass at the bottom of my imagination, and this heritage has found its opening to the world in perfumery. The almost obsessive study of raw materials, both natural and synthetic, remains a daily practice of fundamental importance; everything starts there. For me, perfumery is an extraordinary way of expressing concepts and sensations that otherwise I couldn’t express.