ALBERTO LUENGO MARTIN
Alberto Luengo Martin leads AI research at Rkive AI. He writes fiction, and a scientific treatise on the chemistry and phenomenology of perfume. His work overlaps across domains in ways he didn’t plan for.
Writing
Black Pepper and the Luxury Register
What reads as expensive in a fragrance — dry, refined, slightly austere, the smell of a very good face cream — is often black pepper doing the work.
The Architecture of the Perfume Industry
Most people think of a perfume in terms of the brand on the bottle and the perfumer who created it. That's two layers of a system that has six.
Books
Peer Review
novella
Scent & Silence
treatise
Ventures
FM Lab
Co-founder & CEO · 2020 — 2023
Wearable hardware devices and AI for wearables.
Previously: Themtech.
A short note from time to time, when something is worth saying.