alessandro gualtieri
Editor’s note pending — every credited perfumer eventually gets a written profile here.
The compositions
Pardon
The opening is a jolt of hot cinnamon tempered by creamy magnolia, an unusual pairing that reads more gourmand than floral.
Terroni
The opening of Terroni is a jolt—tart raspberry cutting through smoke like a streak of fruit acid on charred wood.
Black Afgano
Black Afgano opens thick and resinous, almost suffocating in its density.
Brutus
Brutus opens with a citrus bite—bergamot and mandarin—that quickly darkens into something earthier and more feral.
Stercus
Stercus opens with a jolt—bitter almond and anise collide in a way that feels almost medicinal, sharp and vaguely unsettling.
Cuoium
Violet in the heart is the only floral note, and it's not there to soften: it provides a cold, powdery-rooty quality that contrasts beautifully with the leather-dominant base.
Megamare
Megamare opens with a brief flash of citrus before plunging into something darker and more primal than typical marine fragrances.
Boccanera
Boccanera — Italian for "black mouth" — announces itself as a fragrance with bad intentions.
Bergamask
Bergamask opens with a tart, nearly medicinal brightness—bergamot stripped of sweetness, more pith than peel.
Viride
Viride opens with a bracing slap of lavender—not the powdery kind found in fougères, but something greener and more medicinal, almost austere.
Nudiflorum
Nudiflorum takes its name from winter jasmine — a flower that blooms against the cold — and translates that contradiction into fragrance.