Hey guys, welcome back to Skin Anarchy. This is a special episode. I'm very, very excited for the guests that we have with us today because he's truly a genius of his craft. He's an award-winning perfumer and the CEO of Matteo Perfume. So please welcome Matthew Sanchez. Welcome, Matt. I'm so excited to be hosting you.

Thank you so much for having me. I'm excited. Yeah, no, I'm excited.

Geez, I can't wait to talk to you and learn from you actually, because, I mean, like I said,

you know, you really are so, so gifted in what you do and what you create, you know. The fragrances

that I've experienced, you know, Soledon and lovers do have just been breathtaking and they're so

beautiful. So I can't wait to dive into that, Matt, but I want to learn about you. Can you tell us

about where everything started for you with fragrance? Like, when did you know that you wanted to go

into this? It was like a career and all the good stuff. Yeah. Well, first and foremost, thanks for

the wonderful words. I'm like smiling and blushing

it means a lot um especially since i'm not what many would call classically trained right um you go through

a lot of trial and error and um a lot of what is the word imposter syndrome right in just dealing with your own creative blocks.

So it is pretty cool to hear such kind words coming from people like you in the market and the audience in the world when they do appreciate something you put out into the wild.

To answer your question, I actually didn't know perfumery was even a career option or a choice, which sounds

silly and naive. But my family background, you know, they really stressed education and more

formal types of career titles we all may be familiar with, right? So things like, you know,

pursuing becoming a doctor or a lawyer or, you know, a policeman or firefighter, right? So things like, you know, pursuing becoming a doctor or a lawyer or, you know,

a policeman or firefight, right? Like those types of titles we hear all the time. And that's

pretty much the route I was kind of pursuing when I started. That was out in the D.C. area,

starting my career in banking and really was just not too thrilled with it.

It's not a job for me.

And I'm very left brain, very right brain.

I love when I can mix, like use my whole brain, I'll say.

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