Aulentissima
Aulentissima
125 votes
A unique visual signature based on accords, character, and seasonality
Pimento crackles immediately, a dry, almost peppery spice that carries the strange green-earthiness of carrot with it—like inhaling the dust from a spice merchant's back room crossed with freshly grated root vegetables. The opening demands attention, sharp and savoury rather than pretty.
The wisteria and oleander emerge as a sort of muted, powdery florality that softens without surrender, gradually allowing the sandalwood to introduce creamy amber undertones. A subtle almond nougat sweetness develops as the spice settles into the skin, creating an almost candied complexity that feels both comforting and slightly strange.
Sandalwood becomes the dominant force, joined by vanilla in a warm, milky amber embrace that holds a ghost of that earlier spiced earthiness. What remains is intimate and creamy, almost skin-scent in its quietness—a gentle warmth that smells faintly like amber-dusted powder lingering on wool.
Aulentissima's Il Velo di Maia is a deliberately provocative fragrance that wears its culinary inspirations on its sleeve—literally. The opening marriage of pimento and carrot creates an almost savoury warmth, a spiced root-vegetable intensity that immediately signals this isn't a conventional floral. It's the olfactory equivalent of walking into a botanical kitchen garden where someone's been crushing dried chillies near the herb beds.
What makes this composition genuinely intriguing is how the wisteria and oleander don't soften this edginess so much as complicate it. Rather than offering genteel florality, these flowers absorb the spice like fabric absorbing dye—they become warm, slightly dusty, almost powdery in their rendering. The oleander particularly adds a subtle almond-tinged sweetness that plays against the vegetative pimento top, creating an unexpected gourmand quality that feels more savoury-sweet than traditionally dessert-like.
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