Brand Profile
Ineke Rühland is a professional nose that creates original fragrances in her indipendent studio in San Francisco. Born and educated in Canada, she moved to Europe in 1988 to embark on a career in the fragrance industry. After working in the Netherlands, England and France, she cultivated a love for creating complex and original scents along the way.
While living in France, Ineke completed her formal perfumeries studies at ISPICA, the only university-level perfumery school in the world. She honed her traditional perfumery techniques with sojourns to Grasse, the city that spawned perfumery in France. She concludes her studies in Paris, where she still lives for most of the year, After working for three years as an apprentice at an esteemed fragrance house, Ineke moves to San Francisco to combine her skills ad a professional nose with her love for design, literature and arts, realizing actual fragrant "stories".
So her collection of fragrances was born, and it took her name, Ineke.