Giardino Benessere
A unique visual signature based on accords, character, and seasonality
Pink pepper and chestnut dust collide with a dusted iris, creating an almost herbal-spiced aperture that feels surprisingly fresh and slightly astringent. The carnation floats above this, bright but quickly overshadowed by the composition's determined march towards smokier territory.
The vanilla blossom softens into the cashmere accord, creating a honeyed warmth, whilst coca leaf and yerba mate inject a dry, green herbaceousness that prevents any descent into dessert-like sweetness. Labdanum begins its resinous work here, and the smoky character intensifies—you're enveloped in a warm, slightly woody hug with genuine depth.
The oud and Peru balsam emerge with quiet authority, anchoring the remaining vanilla and labdanum into something deeply amber-resinous and decidedly aromatic. What lingers is primarily the smoky-woody base, increasingly abstract and skin-scent intimate, with ghostly traces of the vanilla-cashmere pairing haunting the edges.
Bianco Laos inhabits an intriguing liminal space between the herbal apothecary and the warm amber den. Paolo Terenzi's 2020 composition opens with a deceptively bright carnation-led top that's immediately undermined by the dusty earthiness of chestnut and the peppery snap of pink pepper—there's a slightly medicinal quality here, as if the iris is lending its powdery restraint to keep the spice from becoming cloying. But this is merely the prelude to something considerably more complex.
The heart reveals the fragrance's true ambition: a marriage of soft cashmere musk with Madagascan vanilla blossom that feels almost creamy, yet this is continuously interrupted by the leaf-green freshness of coca leaf and the Argentine yerba mate, lending an herbal, slightly bitter counterpoint. Labdanum enters like warm resin pooling beneath skin, and suddenly the composition tilts decidedly smoky—that's not incense smoke, but rather the charred sweetness of something being slowly heated. It's contemplative rather than cheerful, introspective rather than extroverted.
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