Michelle Defina

Michelle DeFina is a US-based perfumer and Senior Perfumer at Takasago, following an extensive career that has included key roles at IFF and collaborations across multiple fragrance categories. She first fell in love with perfumery while working as a lab technician, realising that the technical, analytical side of her job could become a gateway to a creative life in scent. Today her expertise spans home care, personal care, air care and fine fragrance.

DeFina finds inspiration in everyday life and the outdoors—especially the smell of the ocean, which takes her back to summer holidays on the Jersey Shore. She often speaks of fragrance, and home scents in particular, as a kind of emotional safe haven: a way to turn a house into a sanctuary and to weave comfort, beauty and memory into daily rituals.

Her signature is both innovative and highly evocative, rooted in olfactory storytelling. Whether composing for skin or for space, she seeks to create scents that convey confidence, warmth and a clear emotional message, frequently working with rich florals, creamy, cocooning notes and inviting, modern accords. For DeFina, perfumery is about capturing the world around us through stories in scent—compositions that feel contemporary, readable and deeply sensorial.

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