Ricardo Ramos
Ricardo Ramos is a pioneer in the making of artistic perfumery in Spain, being the first creator using the term "de autor" to announce in the press his first creations released to the public around late 2004 in Barcelona. Ramos is also the first perfumer of Hispanic American origin (Colombia) to establish himself as an independent creator of artistic perfumery in Europe in 2004.
Ramos is the creator of the first international event for independent artistic perfumery in Spain: GranadAroma.
training
Ricardo Ramos has built an entire universe thanks to his training as a fashion designer in Paris (Paris American Academy) and London (Westminster), textile art in Granada (School of Arts and Crafts of Granada) and Mumbai (Lemark Institute), perfumery at the Mg Int. laboratories in Istanbul, and the studies of Medieval Paleography "Digging Deeper" (Stanford University/USA), complemented by extensive travels around the world carrying out cultural immersions and research on the impact and relevance of olfactory culture in diverse latitudes, cultures and eras.
Photo by Micha Sc (MS-Photography Berlin), Model: Jenny Buka, Hair & MUA by Patricia Piatke
LECTURER
With his sensory lectures about the Olfactory Heritage of Al-Andalus in European Perfumery, Ricardo Ramos has spent more than ten years claiming for Spain the origins of European perfumery with an alcoholic base; among his repertoire we also find topics such as “the Legacy of Latin America in Contemporary Perfumery”, “the History of Perfume Oil”, “Crops for Peace and Odoriferous Substances in Colombia”, Colombian Vanilla, and Transculturality in Contemporary Perfumery. He has given lectures and conferences at the Instituto Cervantes in Prague, Uniandinos/Bogotá, the Virgilio Barco Library/Bogotá, Medina Azahara/Córdoba, the independent perfumery fair Polaris in Stockholm, the Barcelona Perfumery Congress in Barcelona, the Colombian Navy flagship ARC Gloria, the perfumery fair Chile Inspira , virtual participations such as in the first American symposium on the culture of perfume, organized by the MUPE Perfume Museum of Mexico City, the Latin American Center for Humanistic Studies of Aromas and Perfumes, and the Perfume Museum of Buenos Aires, and he is also the first Spanish speaker to have given a speech during the Notes Shanghai perfumery fair in China.
