Porcelain Petal

Fine china, and the fruits and flowers of Eurasia.

The mixed world of China and Europe, Eurasia. A fragile clay product out of China, sometimes called fine china, and the Chinoiserie with it, French-Chinese art, cuisine and style. Strong and delicate, the two set against each other.

A Chinese yumberry, the yangmei, with pink jasmine and honeydew. A honey peach from Shanghai and a French wild strawberry, with a Finnish blueberry. Nordic angelica root and a white amber sit underneath the fruitiest, precious floral.

Matteo Parfums is the work of Matthew J. Sánchez, a Southern California native, son of a Mexican-Sicilian father and a Ghanaian-American mother. Sánchez studied applied mathematics and chemistry at UCLA, then spent three and a half years in fragrance and chemistry research before founding the house in Los Angeles in 2017. Every release fuses cultures and concepts: a Korean wine with a Caribbean rum, Chinoiserie, a contemporary imagining of the Aztec, a horchata turned into an amber accord and made in-house.

The work is whimsical and imaginative, and the fragrances are hand bottled and formulated in California. The debut and its two flankers are formulated on the founder's own family heritage, with Latin, Mediterranean and African materials. The rest of the line reaches further, to Korea and the Caribbean, to China and Europe, to ancient Maya and Aztec, distant geographies with shared histories, each release its own fusion.