Corinna Kuhnert
Corinna Kuhnert’s path to perfumery began far from the fragrance laboratory. After training as an architect and working in architectural offices in Copenhagen and Berlin, she turned toward natural perfumery, drawn by the expressive potential of plant-derived scent materials. Since 2020, she has pursued master’s training with Mandy Aftel, deepening her technical command while retaining a close connection to nature. In February 2021, Kuhnert co-founded Aloha Senses Perfumes with her husband, Jörn Klaas, establishing herself as the brand’s creative nose. The Kiel-based label presents natural fragrances developed as a compact collection of six perfumes, a portfolio shaped by the couple’s travels and their interest in capturing the atmosphere of distant places. Kuhnert now balances her work as a perfumer with a broader role as co-founder, bringing an architectural sense of proportion and spatial composition to fragrances built around the natural world.
The hits
Notable creations
The signature
How Corinna composes
Kuhnert’s signature lies in the use of natural fragrance materials as both structure and character. Her compositions favor botanical richness, with texture and volatility playing as important a role as the headline note. Rather than describing her work through a single dominant gesture, she builds each perfume around a recognizable natural idea and lets its materials develop in a balanced composition. The six fragrances created for Aloha Senses show the breadth of this approach, translating outdoor and travel-inspired impressions into wearable natural perfumes. Her training with Mandy Aftel adds technical discipline to that instinctual connection to plants. The overall effect is modern and grounded: aromatic, direct and carefully composed, with a sense that each scent belongs to a particular environment.
Philosophy
What drives Corinna
Kuhnert treats natural perfumery as a means of expressing place through scent. Her work begins with the character of ingredients and the atmosphere they recall, rather than with the appearance of a conventionally polished fragrance. The result is intimate and immediate: compositions that feel close to skin, plants and weather. Her architectural background offers a useful counterpoint to the romantic language often applied to perfumery, giving her practice a structural, deliberate quality. The natural brief also carries a commitment to quality, one that Kuhnert has explored publicly through talks on high-quality natural fragrance materials. For Aloha Senses, she creates each perfume as an individual sensory place, shaped through careful material selection and a clear emotional point of view.
The houses