- Anna Rosa Ferrari Perfumer:
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In her artistic practice as Anne Rose, Anna Rosa Ferrari resides in Modena and hails from Carpi, her hometown whose creative ethos—marked by freedom and inquiry—undoubtedly nurtures the spirit driving her work. Shaped by a profound, labor-intensive existential and experiential quest, she emerges as both a perfumer-craftsman and philosopher. For years, she has crafted exclusive natural plant essences at the heart of Modena, within the Piccolo Museo ProfumAlchemico, a stone’s throw from the city’s Duomo. Beyond her professional output (though it is hard to disentangle work from research), Anna Rosa has spent recent years studying texts while ideating, realizing, and observing numerous individual and collective multisensory experiences. These integrate her Profumalchemici with other products to elicit responses across sensory modalities.
In 1990, she establishedArtestetica Profumeriain Modena, a cultural salon, and in 2011 founded the AssociationPerfvmvm Avia Pervia(Renaissance Olfactory and Spiritual) to promote "Scented Thought." Since then, she has organized initiatives ranging from study seasons and multisensory events to Italy’s first Alchemical Festival (September 10, 2011), the publication ofLe Nature del Profumo, and participation in the Milan Expo.
In 2017, Anna Rosa Ferrari graduated with honors in Philosophical Sciences from the prestigious Alma Mater Studiorum–University of Bologna, defending an experimental thesis on the Profumalchemico as a "method to know." That same year, she officially opened Modena’s Piccolo Museo ProfumAlchemico, a novel sensory museum dedicated to fragrances and perfumery history, where rare natural essences and historical texts are available. She also teaches Profumalchemic Philosophy (method to know) at the Historical Archives of Carpi.
In 2018, her second book,La filosofia profumalchemica, fondamenti, storia, essenze, was published by Artioli Editore.
In 2019, she presented the olfactory workRosa Materat the Museum of Sacred Art in San Giovanni a Fivizzano. Created for Fivizzano and dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary, this piece was donated by the city to Italian President Sergio Mattarella, earning her a personal commendation letter from the Presidency, signed by the President himself.
