Mina Gautier, the perfume creator
Mina Gautier was born into a world where scents tell stories. Marked from childhood by the richness of oriental traditions, she grew up with perfume as an intimate and sensory language.
Passionate about plants and their secrets, she studied biology to better understand the properties of each essence, each flower, each wood. From this dual approach, both instinctive and rigorous, a vocation was born: to create authentic perfumes, inspired by nature and imbued with emotion.
Mina Gautier doesn't simply compose perfumes; she creates emotions, reveals souls. A note to evoke a memory, a scent to enhance a personality, an accord to convey an atmosphere. With each creation, she sculpts a unique olfactory signature.
A perfume creator, confidante, and sensitive soul, she imagines fragrances for herself, for him, for a place, or to create emotion.
A story of transmission.
At Minalys, perfume is a living story, born from an intimate memory and an ancestral gesture.
Mina Gautier, perfume creator, grew up surrounded by oriental scents, sacred plants, and natural raw materials.
She has chosen to perpetuate this tradition, surrounded today by her two sons, in a Perfume House where art is passed on like a heartfelt secret.
The Perfume Tree
It is in this spirit that the Perfume Tree, the centerpiece of the Minalys House, was born.
Designed by Mina Gautier herself, handcrafted in the workshops of Murano, it embodies the soul of our bespoke perfumery.
Majestic and sensual, it carries within it the 7 major olfactory families and their infinite nuances, preserved in 12 vials of pure perfume.
More than just an exceptional object, the Perfume Tree is a living symbol:
– Its powerful roots evoke deep and tenacious base notes.
– Its stems and leaves represent the heart notes, vibrant and sensitive.
– Its flowers and fruits suggest the top notes, bright and ephemeral.
Tree of life, tree of meaning, it is the starting point of every creation.
This is where the adventure of bespoke perfume begins: in pure emotion, in listening, in the dialogue between nature, skin and personal history.
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