Mirella Pomina
Mirella Pomina grew up surrounded by roses in a city that taught her to read fragrance like a language before she ever considered composing it. She trained in the classical European tradition and joined LUZI's creative team nearly 25 years ago, where she has since become a senior perfumer known for work that bridges mass-market accessibility and niche artistry. Her portfolio reflects this range. She signed the Tamaris fragrance "Powerful," a scent built around modern confidence without resorting to expected oriental flourishes. Then there's her GRAVEL work: "Eau D'Esire," part of the TRANSCENDENCE COLLECTION, which treats desire and memory as raw materials, something to be worn close to the skin and understood slowly. The two assignments demanded different languages from the same nose, and Pomina delivered both with conviction. She brings the same sensibility to her own releases. "Pure Flower" arrives in both Eau de Parfum and Eau de Toilette concentrations, the aldehydic and musky facets revealing how slight shifts in construction can reshape the same idea entirely. "Midnight Sandal" takes a woody turn, while "Come Out" earned attention from fragrance collectors in Switzerland and beyond. She works in an industry that often sells abstraction. Pomina sells precision dressed in emotion.
The hits
Notable creations
The signature
How Mirella composes
Pomina builds fragrances around structure and contrast rather than sheer presence. She favors florals with a backbone, especially rose, which she has studied across growing regions and seasons. Against these romantic notes, she introduces woody drydowns, clean musks, and aldehydic lifts that keep compositions from tipping into sentimentality. Her technique shows restraint with modern materials. Musks and wood notes appear not as foundation but as architecture, supporting the upper registers rather than overwhelming them. She understands that certain scents need to announce themselves, while others need only to persist. The through-line across her work is quiet intensity. Whether she's composing a bold Tamaris release or something as delicate as "Pure Flower," there is a characteristic self-assurance in the construction. She does not overwork her materials. She places them where they need to be and steps back."
Philosophy
What drives Mirella
For Pomina, fragrance begins with a question: what should this smell like to someone who wears it? Not what should it smell like, period, but how should it move through the day, what memory should it brush against, what feeling should it leave behind. She approaches each brief as a problem of intimacy rather than a technical exercise. She draws consistently from the physical world. The UNESCO Biosphere Entlebuch in her native Switzerland has inspired specific work, and the mountains remain a touchstone. Travel feeds her, as does music. She has described the creative process in terms of contrast and dance, noting that emotion and memory do the carrying work in any composition worth remembering. She stays curious. When she mentions having smelled roses grown everywhere from Turkey to Bulgaria to Morocco, the point isn't botanical credential. It's the reminder that no single rose has said the last word on what a rose can be."
The houses
Maisons Mirella composes for
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