Carlo Ribeiro
A veteran Italian perfumer who carries industrial experience and a tactile command of woods into contemporary niche fragrance.
Italy
About Carlo Ribeiro
Carlo Ribeiro is a veteran Italian perfumer associated with CFF and presented by FreeShape Milano as its master perfumer. A substantial part of the Italian biographical record spells his surname Ribero, while The House of Oud uses Ribeiro on the current product credit.
Career
An interview from CFF records his long experience as chief perfumer in the personal-care division, including work whose formulas remained in production for decades. He later moved across brand founding, product development, and fine-fragrance creation.
Creative Style & Philosophy
His co-founded Olivares & Ribero project began with the textures and odors of cabinetmaking woods. That background suggests a practice attentive to bitterness, warmth, dryness, polished surfaces, resins, and the structural role of woods rather than decoration alone.
That experience supports a practical sense of structure: materials must retain character while the formula remains stable, coherent, and usable. In fine fragrance, he applies the same discipline to woods, aromatics, spices, and musks without making the result feel merely technical.
Signature Works
- *Up To The Moon — The House of Oud, 2020* — A collaborative composition joining iris, rose, fruit, and sandalwood.
- *Blue Hope — Xerjoff, 2014* — A documented composition layering saffron, florals, oud, and amber.
- *Palissandro & Nobiltà — Olivares & Ribero, 2015* — An early house work translating cabinetmaking woods into fragrance.
