NOSTOS

Top notes: Frankincense Essence, Mandarin Essence, Saffron
Heart notes: Turkish Rose Essence and Absolute, Jasmine Absolute, Oud Accord
Base notes: Sandalwood, Georgia Wood, Ambrofix, Suede, Musk

NOSTOS, where Achilles is more beautiful than Ulysses.

Nostos in Greek means Return. The forever impossible return that speaks to the heart and imagination, the return in intertwined space and time where hope remains.
Nostos is the semantic root of the poignant feeling called Nostalgia, the sorrow of Nostos.
Here, perfume is the vehicle of the return vainly longed for. Like an intense and profound incense that would have burned for three thousand years, the perfume celebrates the Homeric epic of the most beautiful of heroes, whose anger and its unpredictable consequences caused the Trojan War.
The totemic figure of the desired but unfulfilled Nostos is Achilles. Here, it is not about Ulysses' Nostos and his Odyssey; here, it is about Achilles, the emblem of the perfume, conceived by the gods, born of love, like the Trojan War.

Achilles is the complex hero endowed with a dual essence, divine through his mother, the goddess Thetis, human through his father, Peleus. He carries within him the beauty of duality, sometimes a formidable warrior with powerful and penetrating musks – with the extreme virility of Oud without whom Troy cannot be vanquished – sometimes the femininity of the rose. Achilles is the violence and the beauty of humanity's unheard-of diversity.

Spear or shield, this perfume has a dual nature where the Greek hero adorns himself with the attractions of jasmine and sandalwood. Art of war or love, the perfume is brought to its perfection to attack time, fight against our limited destinies and finally triumph over the ruthless Greek gods with amber, saffron and frankincense.

Achilles will never return to his homeland, he knows it and fights against this destiny, always inhabited by the desire for return, haunted by this derisory weapon vainly opposed to fate, by this nostalgia in which we see his humanity triumph.

The perfume of the most beautiful of Greek heroes, fragile and dangerous, forged by Hephaestus, the god of fire, to promise victory.

ALCOHOL DENAT., PARFUM (FRAGRANCE), AQUA (WATER), LIMONENE, CITRUS AURANTIUM BERGAMIA PEEL OIL, TRIMETHYLCYCLOPENTENYL METHYLISOPENTENOL, CITRONELLOL, LINALYL ACETATE, PINENE, LINALOOL, VANILLIN, COUMARIN, PELARGONIUM GRAVEOLENS FLOWER OIL, BETA-CARYOPHYLLENE, BENZYL BENZOATE, GERANIOL, TERPINOLENE, JASMIN OIL EXTRACT, GERANYL ACETATE, BENZYL CINNAMATE, CITRAL, ALPHA-TERPINENE, TERPINEOL, CAMPHOR.