Meo Fusciuni
Meo Fusciuni
92 votes
A unique visual signature based on accords, character, and seasonality
Bergamot hits first with characteristic brightness, but it's immediately muscled aside by ginger's warming burn and pink pepper's aggressive spice. You're not greeted—you're confronted. Within minutes, the coffee note emerges from beneath the spice, dark and almost bitter, anchoring what might otherwise feel scattered.
The coffee deepens considerably, joined by tobacco absolute's leather-bound warmth and the Turkish rose's unexpected peppery character. Liatris spicata adds a faint, powdery-spice undertone that keeps the florals from blooming traditionally. By hour two, the composition becomes almost perfume-like rather than aromatic—structured, somewhat austere, completely resolved.
Bourbon vetiver takes centre stage, providing a whisky-tinged woody base whilst civet introduces animalic intrigue. Labdanum and sage absolute blur into a herbal, almost medicinal finish. The fragrance becomes increasingly abstract, clinging closer to skin with diminishing projection, transforming into something almost like skin scent by hour four—but one that smells faintly like old paper and incense.
Meo Fusciuni's Little Song is a fragrance that refuses sentimentality, trading the expected delicacy of its title for something altogether more austere and intellectually challenging. This is incense-stained tobacco shop glamour—the kind of place where leather armchairs wear decades of smoke like a second skin.
The composition pivots around a masterful coffee-tobacco dialogue that forms the fragrance's true spine. Giuseppe Imprezzabile hasn't simply layered these notes; he's allowed them to interrogate one another. The Turkish rose absolute enters not as a softening agent but as a spiced, almost peppery counterpoint—liatris spicata's pepper-tinged florality amplifying this effect rather than smoothing it. Pink pepper and ginger in the opening ensure there's no floral sweetness to be found here; instead, you're left with something closer to rose petals crushed underfoot in a spice market.
Add fragrances to your collection and unlock your personalised scent DNA, note map, and shareable identity card.
3.1/5 (119)