Lorenzo Villoresi
A unique visual signature based on accords, character, and seasonality
The first spray delivers an almost violent burst of green—bitter mate colliding with sharp galbanum and a medicinal mintiness that reads more camphoraceous than refreshing. Tarragon's anisic edge cuts through the citrus, whilst rosewood provides a creamy, slightly peppery undertone that prevents this from becoming a simple herbal shout. Ylang-ylang lurks beneath, its indolic richness oddly perfect against all this astringency.
As the mate softens, hay emerges with its dried-grass sweetness, turning the composition dustier and more nostalgic. Lavender weaves through in its most aromatic guise—not soapy, but herbaceous and slightly camphorous—whilst the spice accord gains ground, warming the green notes from within. The powdery aspects begin their creep upward, softening edges without erasing the fundamental bitterness.
What remains is a skin-close haze of vetiver and patchouli, earthen and quietly dirty, wrapped in that persistent powder that suggests iris or tonka. Labdanum adds a leathery sweetness, whilst the treemoss provides a bone-dry, oakwood-barrel finish that feels deliberately old-school. The green never fully disappears; it simply becomes memory rather than proclamation.
Lorenzo Villoresi's Yerbamate is a study in verdant contrast—the bitter, grassy snap of mate tea colliding with the resinous depth of labdanum and the mineral greenness of galbanum. This isn't the polite herbaceousness of a tea garden; it's the shock of crushing fresh mate leaves between your fingers, that tannic astringency meeting something unexpectedly tender in the ylang-ylang and rosewood. The composition pivots on this tension between the raw and the refined, where mint and tarragon provide a coolness that never quite settles, constantly stirred by an undercurrent of warming spice.
What makes Yerbamate compelling is how Villoresi balances its aggressive green opening with a surprisingly soft, almost dusty heart. The hay accord brings a dried-flower sweetness that tempers the mate's bitterness, whilst lavender adds a fougère-like structure that keeps this from veering into potpourri territory. By the base, those powdery notes—likely iris or orris—smooth over the patchouli and vetiver, creating something that hovers between an aromatic cologne and a quietly animalic chypre. The treemoss adds an old-fashioned oakiness that speaks to perfumery before reformulation neutered everything mossy.
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