Orto Parisi: Viride and Bergamask (by Alessandro Gualtieri, 2014)
Today I'm writing about Viride, Stercus, Brutus, Boccanera and Bergamask , the new "Orto Parisi" line by Alessandro Gualtieri (better known as the Nasomatto). Some people see the names of these fragrances as another provocation from Alessandro (Stercus means, well... manure; Brutus means something near "villain", Bergamask is a play on words between the city of Bergamo and the word "musk", sounding like "males from Bergamo" etc.) but I only see this as a confirmation of the fact that Alessandro has a precise idea of what perfumery is, an idea that differs a lot from the clean and harmless one, all-candies-and-white-musks of many industrial brands (and sometimes also of many niche brands too). His taste for sensuality is primitive, irrational and un-domesticated, he's not afraid to evoke human "filth" in order to communicate what's in his mind . In the end, composers who have the courage of their convictions are not