Nerone

Inspiration
Nerone is inspired by an imagined meeting between Nero, the most controversial emperor of Ancient Rome, and the master Raphael. Pantheon Roma calls it a work that narrates the history of art and beauty: a monument to excellence, born in an age of pomp and excess.

The fragrance evokes the magnificence of the Domus Aurea, Nero's golden palace, combining excess with genius and beauty with debauchery. The house sees Nerone as an essence for those who seek the beautiful and the sublime, an invitation to immerse yourself in sensations that defy normality. According to Pantheon, wearing it is like carrying a piece of Rome with you.

Fragrance Family
Fruity gourmand, with leather and oud

The Olfactive Composition
Top Notes: coconut, saffron, raspberry
Heart Notes: cane sugar, tonka bean, passion fruit
Base Notes: vanilla, oud, leather, musk

The Signature of Nerone
Nerone is a fragrance of contrasts, just like its namesake. The opening pairs creamy, sweet coconut with the warm, faintly leathery glow of saffron, while raspberry adds a juicy, daring brightness. Pantheon describes the coconut as almost imperial in its elegance: exotic, yet with real poise.

In the heart it grows sweeter and warmer. Cane sugar brings a caramelised, crystalline sweetness, tonka bean adds an almond-like, softly hay-like warmth, and passion fruit contributes an eccentric, tropical tartness that keeps the composition from ever turning heavy or sticky.

Then Nerone reveals its darker side. Oud, deep and mysterious, unfolds in the base, caressed by supple leather. Vanilla rounds everything into a warm, velvety whole, and musk gives it a skin-like radiance that lingers for hours. That tension between sweet fruit and gourmand sugar on one side and leather and oud on the other is the essence of Nerone: splendour and decadence in a single flacon.

What our ParfuMaria team thinks of this fragrance
For us, Nerone proves that a gourmand can also be dangerous. Read only coconut and sugar and you expect something sweet and gentle, but leather and oud give this fragrance a dark, theatrical edge. An evening extrait for those who like their sweetness with bite: lavish, outspoken and full of Roman grandeur.