Mendittorosa

Do we have a flower in the brain?
Where the angels hesitate, in the depths of the most remote part of our brain, there a very small part with the allusive and symbolic shape of an almond has been called Amygdala. It is perhaps there that in addition to fear and emotions, an endless flowery field unfolds, of light and violets, of mysteries and passions, of attachments and flights and of inexplicable beauty ?

The inspiration for this Talisman Extreme was born from the recent psychological-biological studies by Stefania, the founder of Mendittorosa who besides perfume creation also carries a certified Master of Science in Psychology.

Amygdala Extrait de Parfum 35% is deliberately extremely powerful, but at the same time disarming. Amygdala releases an attractive force, which lifts us above good and evil thoughts, and makes us float in the infinity immensity of our own brain.

To give olfactory structure to this synesthesia, Stefania again chose Luca Maffei, as the Master Perfumer of the work, who this time went beyond, beyond all expectations and beyond his own figures.
Luca let himself be guided by a DTI image of our cerebral hemispheres in which he was able to see an enormous iris flower, he immediately decided to concentrate and work around a complex and exciting floral bouquet. He wanted to try his hand at many cross-references between the raw materials as a tribute to the so many neural interconnections. ginger and coffee transmit energy and dynamism to the top notes, and in their extreme contrast they represent the flashes of emotional impulses. For the heart, Luca and Stefania have always thought of almond which recalls the shape of the Amygdala to then leave the word to the flowers: iris, ylang ylang, violet leaves and orange blossom for the colors. Finally, to celebrate the main role of Amygdala precisely in the olfactive processing and in the olfactive memory in particular, Luca wanted vetiver and labdanum, which have scents that never go unnoticed.

“Every man is a divinity in disguise, a god playing the fool.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson

A perfume of divination and tarotology.  Le Mat, The Fool and Journeyman. Chance, enigma and propulsion. End and beginning. A card of 0 and XXII.  A powerful icon of the Major Arcana, cards of symbols and numbers that portend future and fate.  We must turn over cards and accept fate, walk forward into new futures, lives and loves. We may not have all the tools for survival, but we have hope and defiance.
Le Mat explodes with sweet earth, heaven-sent patchouli anchoring a sensual chypré homage of Rosa Centifolia from Grasse, the strange complexities of immortelle, cloves, black pepper and Egyptian geranium.  A talisman of balsamic blessed absolution that will boldly defend mind and body.

In the 2018 edition of Perfumes The Guide, acclaimed fragrance critic Luca Turin awarded Le Mat a coveted 5 stars.

Perfumer: Anne-Sophie Behaghel (Flair Paris

Fragrance Notes: Nutmeg, Black Pepper, Cloves, Egyptian Geranium, Rosa Centifolia from Grasse, Indonesian Patchouli, Cashmere wood, Spanish Immortelle.
Nose: Anne-Sophie Behaghel

 

All my roses were delicate and fragile, some of them sick; afflicted perhaps by inherited weaknesses. Perhaps this is the price to pay for such beauty.  One day I dropped some mint leaves into a vase of my roses. The voracious mint surrounded and embraced the roses, guarding and protecting them. Now they grow beautiful and lush, without our help and without weaknesses.  That’s when I started thinking about the smell of Talent. The talent we need to live.

Talent that allows us to have everything. Our bees great wealth.

 Talent of life. The talent that if well protected can bloom undisturbed.  Mint and Roses. This is the theme of the sixth Talisman. The Talisman of Talent, the light of genius that could flourish and grow in us all. A light to be protected as it in turn protects us.

“Talent is a source always springing with new water.”
Ludwig Wittgenstein

Notes
Top: Mint, Aldéhyde C12 MNA
Heart: Rose Oxide, Infusion of Rose, Geranium
Base: Indonesian Patchouli, Oakmoss, Cedar

Perfumers: Amèlie Bourgeois, Camille Chamardine
Concept & Creative Design: Stefania Squeglia

Where do we come from?

Where are we going?

What if Sirius has the answer.

The brightest star in the known Universe has always been the focus of esoteric studies and those searching for answers to eternal questions.

Sirio is the secret destination of an enchanted path. Another strength of gravity. Ascending from the Garden of Eden to the Stars above.

Sirio evokes a journey from Earth to this mysterious paradise with the ambrosial booziness of forbidden fruits. The unexpected addition of White Musk in the head notes makes the perfume feel more full-bodied while a protective woody-gourmand base prolongs the mysterious carnal essence of Sirio.

Perfumer

Amélie Bourgeois (Flair Paris)

Head Notes

Rhubarb, Apple, White Musk

Heart Notes

Rose, Peony, Plum

Base Notes

Guaiac, Cashmeran, Oud, Vanilla, Amber Wood

Flickering candle flames cast shadows off moonstone and marble. Archetipo surrounds you in absolute silence. Archetipo was always here, before us, before all human thought.

With Archetipo we can experience an echo of primordial memory, losing ourselves in a time without time, re-discovering olfactive consciousness. Archetypes of odour to define an archetypical scent.

Perfumer: Luca Maffei

Head Notes: Fir Balsam, Pink Pepper, Incense Super Essence.
Heart Notes: Burning Flame Accord (incl. Bushman Candle – Sarcocaulon Mossamedensis), Moonstone Accord.
Base Notes: Patchouli, Indonesian Vetiver, Cashmere Wood, Labdanum, Black Amber, Oakmoss.

Bright and pure. Light and nostalgic. North evokes memories of drawing on clean white pages, green leaves playing with light, the wood of Swedish saunas, children quietly drawing in a room… the smell of perfect pencils.

Perfumer: Anne-Sophie Behaghel

VISION

Athanor is carried by spiritual exploration. The fascination of the alchemist’s effort to search for and find ways to convert the plain and banal into beauty and a higher level. Spiritualty through mystique. That’s why Athanor came alive.

Athanor: The Crucible. The melting spot where metals meet and change. The burning flames underneath – Incendium Amoris – The Fire of Love. Like a living creature can change when exposed to the heat of life. For good or worse.

Interpretation of the alchemistic work through the nose:

A diffused heat, or rather a glow.
Human baseness begins to dissolve.
A translucent silver, cold but alive.
Purification.
And then a vibrant gold is revealed behind the initial heat.
The result of the transformation.
Spiritual love that unites.

Listen to your nose. Always. Feel the Sulphur evaporating from the process. Giving way to a delicate body of saffron and flowers, finding its space between incense and precious wood. Let the Athanor enhance your personality and lead your way.

Athanor’s ambitious project has involved great artists and countless hours. After two years of dedicated craftmanship and cooperation the olfactory formulation was signed by Luca Maffei and acknowledged by Stefania Squeglia

The new and third member of Extreme Talismans in the Talismans Collection of Mendittorosa.

“Thus, the superior man consolidates his fate
by making his position correct.”
50, Ting. The Crucible. I Ching.

Head notes: Sulphur, Cassis and Saffron
Heart notes: Iris, Cypriol and Fumencens
Base notes: Cashmeran, Guaiac wood, Vetiver Java and Black amber

Olfactive vision: Stefania Squeglia
Nose: Luca Maffei

 

*Available in Nashville Store only 

In Sanskrit Mauna means Silence.

The Silence we refer to with the Sanskrit word “Mauna” is not the silence as absence of noises, but the Strength, free of time and space, uncontaminated and a sacred vibration, behind everything, before everything. After all.

We wanted Sanskrit as Language and the Sandalwood as Material to give our tribute to one of the most ancient Traditions; the Ayurvedic One.

Smelling is the closest thing to this kind of Silence that we can do, isn’t it?

When you smell, you feel, you don’t think. You grasp the smell. In that there is Silence. Honesty. Union. You are in the scent; you are the scent. The scent is in you.

How long does this condition last? It is not important. What is important is that it happens. And it does. Anytime you close your eyes, and you smell a scent. There the curtain falls. Silence falls. Facing the intangible. The mind and the smell. An open channel connects us to something that has always been there – and always will be there. If you are open to sense it.

Mauna is Silence. Through Mauna you should listen to your nose as the lighthouse and the entrance to your deepest inside. Stepping stones to be found.

You will pursue it softly without efforts, and it grows from your midst like the budding Lotus on the flacon. Maybe you will access earlier stages, where you felt it. Forgotten in the daily life, but not in the depth of your mind. A well to revisit again and again.

Mauna also comes to remind us that the body is a temple: Go inside. And find the Vibration of Silence. That is what life is all about.

Stefania Squeglia wanted to create and unfold Mauna from the deep layers of Sandalwood that is a world in itself. This determination led her to the Italian perfumer Cristiano Canali, who has long been intensely interested in Sandalwood. Both professionally and personally:

“Of all the subjects, Sandalwood is the one that touched me the deepest, and the encounter with Sandalwood in India has opened my heart to perfumery,” says Cristiano Canali.

The Mauna formulation is an intangible and silent embroidery, a kind of sutra expressed through the Sandalwood and its Dignity.

The philosophical aspects of Mauna made it natural to start the creation from and with various Indian Sandalwood as an at first indissoluble equation leading up to the right balance that you now can enjoy.

Fragrance Notes: 

Piper Nigrum, Madagascar Ginger, Olibanum, Benzoin Resinoid, Santalum Album India, Tonka Bean absolute, Sacred Musk, Velvet,  Styrax Exudate.

Perfumer: Cristiano Canali

Versi is an olfactory study in three chapters. Versi explores and enjoys the wonderful correspondences between Perfume and Poetry. The third and last of the three studies is Albatros Eau de Parfum inspired by the poem of the same name by Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867). The poem was published in the collection Les Fleurs du mal. It is indeed the second poem of the collection (first edition: 1857). It is found in the first of the books six sections, which has the title: Spleen et Idéal.

Eau de Parfum 20%

Albatros Fragrance Notes: 

• Head Notes (modern and molecular) : Clean note, Aquatic note (foam), Ozonic Anisic note
• Heart Notes: Modern Rose*, Rose absolute, Pineapple
• Base Notes: ** Cashmere wood, Moroccan Cedarwood, Virginian Cedarwood, Haitian Vetiver, White Musk

The beginning. A naked venus rising from a clear blue sea. An arcadian tale of earth, milk and vineyards with a saffron heart yearning for the sensuality of nutmeg, sandalwood, jasmine and thyme.

Perfumer: Amélie Bourgeois.

ORLO is latest and second creation of Versi Studio, which is an envisioned olfactive trilogy from Mendittorosa exploring the relationship between poetry and perfumery.
The second in this trilogy ORLO is inspired by the poem Edge written by one of the biggest female poets of the 20’th century Sylvia Plath. Edge was first published in 1965.

Perfumer: Anne Sophie Baeghel
Genesis, Concept and Creative Design: Stefania Squeglia

Bergamot, Bitter orange, Basil and Mandarin

Elemi (sort of incense peppery), Pink pepper, Cardamom,
Cumin, Lavender, Petit Grain, Neroli and Ylang Ylang

Saffron, Leather note, Papyrus Wood, Rhum, Oud and Hay

 

“All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream”
From ‘A Dream Within a Dream’ by Edgar Allen Poe

A visionary scent, pulled from the unconscious mind via an ocean of gauzy marine dreams. Sogno Reale brims with brine-leather, sea urchins and electrified air. Calm sea meet volcanic fumes, woods and sun-bright shock of lemon and bergamot. Warm rum and sweet, earthen patchouli swirl protectively around gentle tuberose and a quiet dose of hyraceum, warming its fur in the Mediterranean sun. Sogno Reale is balm for the soul, a talisman dreamed into existence, the unconscious mind made extraordinary perfumed flesh.
Perfumer: Amélie Bourgeois (Flair Paris)

Head Notes: Lemon, Bergamot, Marine/Iodine Accord
Heart Notes: Tuberose, Patchouli
Base Notes: Volcanic Olibanum, Hyraceum, Rhum, Sandalwood, Styrax, Amber Woods

ITHAKA is the first creation of Versi Studio, which is an envisioned olfactive trilogy from Mendittorosa exploring the relationship between poetry and perfumery.
The first in this trilogy is ITHAKA, inspired by the poem Ithaka written by emblematic Greek Poet C. P. Cavafy, first published in 1911.

Perfumer: Camille Chemardin
Genesis, Concept and Creative Design: Stefania Squeglia

Notes: 

Bergamot, Aqueous Magnolia, Incense, Patchouli, Labdanum, Incense Resinoid, Virginian Cedar, Cypriol, Benzoin

The end, limit, closure. Omega is Alfa’s opposite, deriving an aloof elegance and composure from the quietude of its mortality. A leather heart is draped in velveteen layers of Egyptian cumin and white musk. Iris and vanilla add sensual, gourmand allure.

Perfumer: Amélie Bourgeois.

Head Notes: Egyptian Cumin
Heart Notes: Jasmine, Iris, Violet, Rosewood
Base Notes: Leather accord (Absolute Resinoid plus Oud), Incense, Virginian Cedar, White Musk, Vanilla

Rituals from ancient cultures; myths, symbols and religions in one perfume. Rituale is illuminated by a nectarous narcissus, a golden distillation of time like an everlasting sunrise. Blessing and prayer, a soothing balsam for skin, Rituale is your personal temple. Perfumes normally come and go with the wind but Rituale likes to linger and bless your day, creating a ritual especially for you.

Perfumer: Amélie Bourgeois

“I fly
In an intergalactic space
Where gods are dancing..”
From ‘Neptune’s Flight’ by Marco Pesatori, astrologer & poet

Nettuno is a perfume of exquisite beauty, a celestial mirror of the soul; invoking the symbolism and astrological forces of distant Neptune’s blue spinning majesty.  A talisman of duality, compassion and transformation, a sensual symbol of astral guidance. Nettuno is a frozen rose floating amid nebulous musks, blue ginger, translucent blooms and soft embracing leather. Powdered particles of iris drift like ash over this perfumed flight of fate and stellar protection. Such a unique talisman, falling like rose dust to protect and guide us.
Perfumer: Amélie Bourgeois (Flair Paris)

Genesis

Daymon is a joyful, enigmatic and present spirit – all inside.
Daymon is play and therapy.
Daymon is love that we give and receive through animals by free will.
Daymon is the being without word that reach out and love better than with conventional language.
Daymon is the eloquence of silence.
Daymon is our spiritual guide.
Imagined to be embodied in fabulous animals.

Design

The Daymon comes in a unique flacon crowned by a Daymon ceramic made by the magnificent Tuscan artist Alessandro Reggioli. Hand-made each and every one. Daymon is looking out from the rounded box. Cautiously. Look at it and choose each other. The totem form, the soft wool and silk tail made by Neapolitan 38Verde coming out at the top and indeed the box is all deliberately different from other Mendittorosa boxes, because this is a statement.

Daymon will be accompanied by a special narrative project: The voice of Daymon, which has the ambition to give a voice to those who don’t have it.

During this period mendittorosa will host the words of Pierfilippo Agosti, father and poet, because we are convinced that dignity also resides in those who do not have words or do not know how to use it.

HEAD

ROOTS OF ANGELICA, TUNISIAN NEROLI, INDIAN JASMINE

HEART

ITALIAN IRIS, TONKA BEAN

BASE

HABANOLIDE, SANDAL WOOD OF NEW CALEDONIA, RESINOID, SIAM BENZOIN, AMBROXAN

 

South conjures up memories of warm, freshly baked bread, white linen sheets drying in the sun and the clean scent of Marseille soap. Infused with green cyclamen, bittersweet lilac and sandalwood, it is the sensual clutter of the Mediterranean soul.

Perfumer: Amélie Bourgeois

Essential, rich and wild, Id is the dark passion that drives us onward toward our dreams. Inspired by Iddu, a local nickname for the living volcano that towers over the island of Stromboli, Id is an olfactory dedication to this fiery primal being that first breathed Mendittorosa into life. Impassioned and untethered, an iris heart lies beneath volcanic sediments of violet, iris and oud. An overdose of labdanum gives Id its truly distinctive raw character.

Perfumer: Amélie Bourgeois.

Lacura is here to take care of you; to inspire and protect. Its soothing aroma will calm your soul. Precious essences of citrus, flowers and the musky lavender undertones of Veloutone create a perfumed embrace on your skin. Light touches of vanilla, benzoin and caramel bring coziness and much needed comfort. Lacura is an invitation. Lacura is a caress.

Inspiration

Franco Battiato,
song and poem “La cura”

Head Notes

Bitter Orange Essence, Pear , Bergamote Essence

Heart Notes

Néroli Essence, Orange Flower Absolute, Jasmine, Petit Grain Essence

Base Notes

Virginian Cedarwood Essence, Benzoin Resinoid, Ambroxan

Cashmeran, Vanillin, Caramel, Veloutone