Bergamask - extrait de parfum

Bergamask by Orto Parisi is a light citrus note in the opening that quickly gives way to animalic, musky notes while the fragrance develops on the skin. Bergamask is a bold fragrance. It is the recreation of the feeling of attraction and repulsion through the combination of two very different fragrance ingredients – Calabrian bergamot and musk.

Although fresh in the beginning, the second stage of this fragrant play is extensive and extremely long-lasting. Like a freshly cut bergamot peel, this is an odor of a fresh kill with a sheer amount of perspiration.

Eau de cologne type of fragrances are usually very volatile and fade after a short period of time. The Nose wanted to create the most enduring hesperidic note with the main raw material that comes from Italy.

Alessandro Gualtieri found inspiration in sweat for this fragrance. Sweat is a very intimate representation of what you are at that moment: how you feel, what you eat, what do you do with your body, which are your habits, how do you move, if you move etc. By sweat one can indicate whether one likes his partner or not. You will smell the right one out of thousands. Sweat has no masks, it can be either extremely attractive or awfully repulsive.

The cap is antique gold metal with an inlaid light horn that comes from Ethiopia and Somalia.

Orto Parisi by perfumer Alessandro Gualtieri a.k.a. The Nose, is his second brand, after Nasomatto. Alessandro lives and works in Amsterdam, where he makes his intriguing creations: great unusual, strong and longlasting extrait de parfums. The name Orto Parisi refers to the lush and fertile vegetable garden of his grandfather. Alessandro about Orto Parisi: “The parts of the body that carry more smell are those where more soul is collected. The strong smells have become unpleasant to us, because the excess of soul is intolerable to the extent that our innate animalism is repressed and breaking from civilization. This project is my garden I have planted, fertilized, cultivated, and harvested."