Aistis Mickevicius is changing the way Lithuania experiences perfume. As the country’s first perfumer to launch his own brand, FUMparFUM, he creates scents that are both conceptual and avant-garde. In an exclusive interview with PlezuroMag, Mickevicius reveals how he turns perfume into wearable art and a medium for communicating his vision of the world.

There’s always something special about sitting down with a perfumer who knows exactly what she wants a fragrance to say; not just how it should smell. When I spoke with Özge Erdoğmuş Altınel, the perfumer behind the new Reinvented release Enigmatic Aura, that clarity came through immediately. Calm, thoughtful, and quietly passionate, she talked about this perfume the way someone talks about a story they’ve been waiting to tell.

The story of Miya Porubcan, the founder of Mirads Parfums, is not one you hear every day. Growing up in Zambia and seeing perfumes just behind the till in the shop, without ever being able to try them, she now has her own fragrance brand, telling the tale of her journey from South Africa to Europe.