Buio
Smoke, carrot-seed dust and incense for a sleepless night, with osmanthus and peony kept in the dark.
Perfumer: Giuseppe Imprezzabile
Buio is Italian for darkness, and the official text keeps returning to one image: it is night, it is dark, and the mind drifts with nowhere to land. While composing it, the maker read books on Shintoism and listened to Nils Frahm's Empty and Einstürzende Neubauten's Ende Neu at every stage.
The first accord to take shape paired cade oil, carrot seed, incense, Cashmeran and Suederal. It opens smoky and powdery, with smoky incense, the fine dust of carrot seed and the darker voice of cade.
Further in, osmanthus and peony show their shadowed side, wrapped in geranium and magnolia and guarded by labdanum absolute and amber. Vetiver, patchouli, cedarwood, sandalwood, musk and leather form the ground underneath. Each material, the maker says, was weighed like a word chosen to tell someone something important about one's life.
