Béatrice Aguilar
Béatrice Aguilar-Cassarà runs Scent on Canvas from Barcelona, a creative platform where perfume becomes wearable art. She treats fragrance as a form of expression that exists at the intersection of chemistry and emotion, refusing to reduce her work to ingredient checklists. Her career spans both the commercial and artisanal sides of the industry. She developed her craft at companies like Eurofragrance and Dragoco, building a foundation in raw material evaluation and formulation before striking out on her own. A multilinguist by nature, she operates fluidly across Spain, France, and Italy, drawing from each cultural sensibility. Her profile has grown through collaborations with houses including Comporta Perfumes and Sospiro, and she contributed her skills to the celebrated In Astra project alongside perfumers like Bertrand Duchaufour and Luca Maffei. When she is not creating, she teaches at Master level, sharing her interdisciplinary perspective with the next generation.
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The signature
How Béatrice composes
Béatrice gravitates toward clean structures where each material has room to breathe. She favors bright, precise openings, often citrus or galbanum-driven, moving into aromatic or floral hearts before settling into woody or soft drydowns. Her compositions tend toward elegance and restraint rather than projection for its own sake. She has a sharp instinct for balance, frequently using contrast to create depth: fresh against warm, crisp against creamy. Her technical background as an evaluator informs her work, giving her an exacting understanding of how materials behave at different concentrations. She thinks in gradients and textures rather than static lists. Her hand is visible in the Sospiro range, in the aromatic clarity of Mosquito Man, and in the invisible threads she wove through the In Astra collection.
Philosophy
What drives Béatrice
Béatrice speaks of wanting to unite the art of the perfumer with pictorial creation. For her, a fragrance begins not with a note list but with a feeling, a texture, a color. She approaches each brief as a storytelling exercise, asking what emotion the wearer should carry. She rejects the idea of perfume as mere product. Instead, she treats it as a living, personal language. Her process is deeply collaborative. She listens, questions, and experiments until the composition speaks. She draws inspiration from her background in marketing and community building, keeping her work grounded in human connection rather than abstraction. She believes in the invisible power of scent, its ability to capture moments and memories that resist verbal expression.
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