Pantheon
A unique visual signature based on accords, character, and seasonality
The chocolate and honey combination hits with immediate warmth, almost edible in its directness—think of honey roasted over heat, darkening slightly, its floral edges burnt away. It's tactile and inviting, though already you sense the sweetness calibration is pitched high rather than subtle.
The fruit arrives as the composition settles, cherry and plum creating a slightly fermented, jammy character that plays off the deepening cocoa. Vanilla and tonka bean emerge, softening the fruit's edges and introducing that creamy, almost powdery quality that defines this phase—it's genuinely pleasant rather than cloying, with strawberry adding a candy-like brightness that prevents it from becoming heavy.
The tonka and white musk dominate now, creating a warm, skin-scent creaminess with faint traces of that earthy truffle note lingering beneath. The composition becomes softer, more intimate, leaning heavily into its synthetic sweetness—less a fragrance and more a scented second skin, fading gradually without ever becoming truly invisible.
Pantheon — Dolce Passione is an unabashed celebration of indulgence, a fragrance that treats the skin as a dessert course rather than a canvas. Arturetto Landi has crafted something deliberately decadent here: chocolate and honey open the conversation with a whispered promise of sweetness, but it's the heart where things become genuinely compelling. Cocoa deepens that chocolate foundation into something richer and less brittle, whilst cherry and plum introduce a tart counterpoint that prevents the composition from becoming cloying. There's genuine tension between the stonefruit's natural acidity and the strawberry's jammy sweetness, a friction that keeps the composition from becoming one-dimensional. Vanilla and tonka bean in the base don't dissolve into generic gourmand blur; instead, they anchor the chaos above with creamy, almost almond-like warmth.
The synthetic accords (52%) do reveal themselves if you're listening carefully—there's a certain plasticity to how the fruits sit together, a slightly processed quality that some will find off-putting. But for those drawn to deliberately artificial sweetness, to the aesthetic of candy rather than fruit, this is rather the point. The white musk provides a second-skin quality, whilst that unexpected truffle note adds an earthy, almost savoury undertone that whispers of umami beneath all the sugar.
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