ELI
and the mission of bringing pleasure and well-being through the senses and plants

This is a one way path, the fact of knowing that the more you know, the less you know, wanting to go beyond books and classes, is what has made me want to learn more.

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I have developed my own way of working, not absolutist towards any way of working or materials and with a deep desire to unite people to the environment with the nose.

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You can follow my trail on socials - blog - and in my other project of Perfumery Magazine with my colleague the argentinian perfumer Nina Lamaison

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I went through the University, during my studies in the first years of the degree in Environmental Sciences I learned about biology, inorganic chemistry and botany, etc., I decided to make a twist in this path and made a transitional change to a higher laboratory technician and quality control, learning safe techniques and after, to one year of psychology, but the life led me to finish my journey at the School of Hospitality in the Basque capital, graduating as a higher technician in gastronomy achieving a work scholarship and an award in innovation and creativity. Gastronomy in my life has been a great contribution to my life, since all the processes that we can use come from working with raw materials in this field since the dawn of humanity.

As a tastings enthusiast, I love studying (and more enjoying) that world.

Thus I arrive at olfactory studies through scientific Aromatherapy according to the French school with Antonia Jover., with a focus on sensory olfaction, which approaches the deep knowledge of the plant from its aroma, based on Goethe's method, taught by Christian Escriva.

At the same time, I was studying sustainable tourism and phytotherapy as university expertise, and also naturopathic techniques in approved associations.

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Currently I continue to study this noble art of perfumery with the award winning, academic perfumer and astrobiologist, Marina Barcenilla. at the Academy of Perfume (Spain).

I started in 2018 in this world with emphasis on artistic perfumery with Roxana Villa by Illuminated Perfume, one of the initiators for more than 20 years in what we now know as Botanical Perfumery.

Over time I have been doing some masterclasses in the field of perfumery and aromatology with others professionals as Isabelle Gellé (Parfumeurs du monde) and Pierre Bénard (Osmoart).

This is a path that equally requires a lot of self-teaching

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I have been introduced  to molecular aromas with the chemist and perfumer material expert Maria Petruzzi from Mundoaromantico

The workshops that have excited me for being the first written perfumery records are those of the EgyptologistDora Goldsmithand his teachings onsense of smell and aromas in ancient Egypt.

I also perfected the art of aromatics in other odoriferous forms in the school of Evan Sylliaasen,The School of Aromatic Medicine.

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The last studies that have helped me with the vital objectives regarding this project were those of the Introduction to Ethnobotany with the ethnobotanistEmilio Blanco.

I am also learning with those who have gone a long way in the development of such things as traditional herbal medicine with local herbalists and Spagyria, an ancient forgotten art that was used until the 18th century, which tries to imitate the processes of Nature for the extraction of the three parts of the plants, with their equivalents of ancient descriptive forms that were used in the times of Alchemy: their essential oil (until the 19th century, compounds with a similar texture and extraction were called oils or sulfur but were not of oily base), its salts or ashes (they were considered salts due to their appearance and pH, which currently gives the name to various chemical compounds) and its spirit or alcohol resulting from fermentation (this is why alcoholic beverages are currently called " spirit drink").