Lorenzo Villoresi
A unique visual signature based on accords, character, and seasonality
A sharp blast of mint and aniseed crashes against your skin, immediately joined by the herbal green notes and that distinctive coniferous woodiness. It feels austere and almost biting, like pressing fresh herbs between your fingers—bracing, clean, wholly unsweetened.
The spice develops with real authority as frankincense and elemi resin emerge, anchoring the composition with a resinous warmth. Black pepper finally announces itself properly, dancing alongside clove leaf and oregano, creating something that hovers between incense, spice rack, and herbal medicine—complex, deliberately challenging, entirely compelling.
The woody and resinous base settles into atlas cedar and styrax, with benzoin and Peru balsam adding gentle sweetness without sacrificing the fragrance's essential austerity. It becomes more abstract, more whispered—a ghostly impression of spiced wood and amber that lingers on clothes longer than skin.
Piper Nigrum announces itself as something altogether more austere than its name suggests—this is not a fragrance about black pepper's warmth, but rather its sharp, almost medicinal bite. Villoresi has constructed a composition that reads like a spice merchant's shop after a winter storm, all bracing clarity and herbal snap. The opening bristles with peppermint and aniseed, bolstered by a constellation of green aromatics—dill, fennel, those coniferous woods—that create an almost peppery freshness before the actual pepper even arrives.
What's remarkable is how the heart reframes everything. Rather than softening into something prettier, the frankincense and elemi resin amplify the composition's ecclesiastical austerity, whilst clove leaf and nutmeg add a baroque spiciness that sits somewhere between a apothecary's cabinet and incense smoke. Rosemary and oregano push it further still, lending an almost culinary candour that prevents Piper Nigrum from becoming merely aromatic or perfumey.
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