Lorenzo Pazzaglia
Lorenzo Pazzaglia
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A unique visual signature based on accords, character, and seasonality
The bergamot and white peach arrive with immediate brightness, their citric snap cutting through cool green notes that feel almost foliage-damp. Within moments, the fig leaf's subtle bitterness emerges, creating a dialogue between sweet stone fruit and something closer to crushed leaves after rain—fresh but never quite innocent.
The jasmine and tuberose slowly meld with the fig's honeyed warmth, and the spices (their exact character remaining pleasantly ambiguous) add a whisper of complexity without announcing themselves. This is where the fragrance becomes creamy, almost milky, as the fig milk gently diffuses upward, softening the earlier green edges into something more voluptuous yet still fundamentally green.
Fig wood and sandalwood settle into the foreground, creating a dry, almost dusty base where the fig milk's lactonic sweetness plays against woody austerity. The musk arrives as a skin-like presence rather than a projecting force, tethering everything to the body and creating an intimate, slightly powdery finish that whispers rather than speaks.
Adam & Eve's Dress is a fragrance that treats the fig note as a full narrative rather than a supporting character. From the opening bergamot brightness, it commits entirely to exploring the faceted nature of Ficus carica—the green, almost chlorophyll-tinged freshness of the leaf, the honeyed sweetness of the fruit, and finally the woody, almost creamy aspect of fig wood and fig milk in the base. This is not a fruity fragrance masquerading as fresh; it's a deliberate meditation on how a single botanical can contain contradictions.
The white peach and bergamot arrive as aperitifs, sharpening the green notes into something almost herbal, slightly astringent. But by the heart, the fig leaf's green bitterness yields to a quietly insistent jasmine and tuberose that lend an almost creamy, slightly indolic warmth—these florals don't sweeten the composition so much as they soften it, like diffused afternoon light through linen.
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