Carol Belli
Carol Belli grew up among the gardens of Brazil, where a childhood flowerbed became her first classroom in scent. She carries that early education in green fragrances with her into the labs of Givaudan, where she now trains as a perfumer in her third year at the prestigious perfumery school. Working alongside senior perfumers like Rodrigo Flores-Roux, Belli has already contributed to ambitious projects that blend classical perfumery training with forward-looking technology. Her work on 'Desert Bloom,' crafted with Givaudan's AI tool Carto, and a collaboration titled 'Air Popped Petals' show a young nose unafraid to experiment. Belli brings a graphic designer's visual sensibility to fragrance construction, an interdisciplinary background that shapes how she builds presentations and experiences around her creations. When she isn't developing new compositions, she speaks about lavender with the enthusiasm of someone still discovering what it can do.
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The signature
How Carol composes
Gardenias, fig, and lavender anchor Belli's olfactory vocabulary. She gravitates toward green, dewy accords that feel cut from the same cloth as a morning garden in Brazil. Her experimentation with Givaudan's Carto AI tool demonstrates she's comfortable using technology to map香气 territories she might not explore as quickly with traditional methods alone. She favors clean, transparent structures where each ingredient has room to breathe, avoiding heavy overlays in favor of precise, layered compositions. That visual background she brings informs how she constructs fragrance narratives: she thinks spatially, considering how a scent moves through a space and how it might feel at different stages of wear.
Philosophy
What drives Carol
Belli believes fragrance should evoke something personal before it becomes universal. She draws from her memories of Brazilian gardens, where gardenias and fig trees left marks she still chases in her formulations. Green scents dominate her palate, not because they're trendy but because they connect her to a specific place and time. She approaches each project with curiosity rather than prescription, letting ingredients reveal their possibilities rather than forcing them into predetermined stories. For Belli, perfumery is about honest communication between the nose and the material, nothing more, nothing less.
The houses
Maisons Carol composes for
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