Laboratorio Olfattivo
Laboratorio Olfattivo
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A unique visual signature based on accords, character, and seasonality
Pear's generous sweetness immediately softens the citrus trio, with neroli's floral-tinged brightness taking precedence over bergamot's sharper edges. The effect is less "fresh fragrance" and more "biting into a white nectarine with a sprig of neroli blossom."
Jasmine sambac and ylang ylang arrive with surprising delicacy, their creamy opacity balanced by white lotus's almost spectral aquatic quality. The fruity notes fade into the background, leaving a soft, slightly honeyed floral that feels almost transparent against skin.
Blond woods emerge as a barely-there scaffolding, whilst musk settles into a skin scent whisper—amber adds the gentlest warmth without any perceptible sweetness. Within hours, Nun becomes nearly imperceptible, a ghost of jasmine and warm skin that demands proximity to detect.
Nun is a fragrance caught between whisper and silence—a delicate study in restraint that courts intimacy over declaration. Luca Maffei has constructed something genuinely unusual: a white floral composition that treats its luminous heart with the restraint of Japanese minimalism rather than the exuberance of Grasse maximalism.
The opening marriage of pear and neroli creates an almost edible freshness, as if bergamot and lemon have been steeped in white tea rather than asserting themselves as discrete citrus notes. This isn't the brittle, sharp opening of a typical fresh fragrance—there's a fleshy ripeness to the pear that immediately softens the citrus's natural severity. By the time ylang ylang and jasmine sambac emerge, you're already in contemplative territory.
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