Could you briefly walk us through your story? I was born in Romania and came to the US when I was 3 years old. As I grew up, my parents instilled in me to do something with my life as we lived in a land of opportunity and not take it for granted. It remained in my head for the rest of my life and still, I think about it every day. After graduating from College with a BS in Business, I worked in Finance for many years trading equities and in sales. As the firms I worked for took companies in their initial public offering or secondary offering otherwise…

“In fact, I didn’t find perfumery, perfumery found me.” One of my earliest memories from my childhood in Constanta is the smell of the Black Sea. We lived right by the beach. I remember waking up in the morning and going to the beach before anyone else was there… I could smell the water as it calmly washed over the shore. I loved the smell of the sea! We left Romania when I was twenty years old. Coming to a new country and starting a new life was an exciting experience, full of new possibilities. Within the very first days after my arrival in New York, I started working as…