Almost 4 years ago I started working with a team of passionate experts on a portal project dedicated to Artistic Perfumery. After many meetings, exchanges of ideas, evaluations on the complexity of the project and the resources that needed to be put in place, we came to the conclusion that it was time to take an extra step: add to our web listening and survey activities to monitor the sector in support of the educational and analytical activities that we managed for Esxence (and which in 2018 gave birth to the "whispers about artistic perfumery" survey), the website www.essencional.com which was born a year ago when the pandemic exploded.

A debut among the most complicated but which occurred perhaps at the most suitable moment considering how the internet and its services have assumed an even more important role.

Our Karen Marin details in her article what we started doing and how we integrated and developed our services.

As founder and editor I am particularly proud of what our team has achieved with the resources available and I sincerely hope that all of us have been able to make a valuable contribution to the wonderful sector of Artistic Perfumery and Beauty which, in my opinion, has a very bright future in front of it, also thanks to the creative personalities that are increasingly able to attract and involve.

A heartfelt thanks to all my team, which includes my daughter Giulia Levi, Chiara Toniello, Laurence Klove and Karen Marin, to whom most of the results are due and I sincerely hope you will soon meet in person in the next editions of Esxence but also on many other occasions in which essencional will certainly be present and a special thanks to our much appreciated audience of passionate readers.

Silvio Levi

Essencional's Director