Tiziana Terenzi -Draco Extrait de Parfum 100 ml
This journey starts in one of the most amazing and mysterious places hosted, or perhaps I should say hidden by Italy: Matera is known as the city of the Stones, because of the peculiar and unique nature of its historical centre. Excavated and built next to the Gravina di Matera, there is a deep gorge that divides the country into two. The Sassi di Matera, the areas that make up the old part of the city, span two valleys that face eastwards, are slightly lower that the surrounding areas, and separated from each other by the rocky spur of Civita. This enviable position has made the city invisible to the eyes of its enemies for thousands of years, allowing it to pass almost unscathed through centuries of history.
If we take the Civita - the centre of the old city - as our reference point, the Sasso Barisano, facing the north-west on the edge of a cliff, is the richest in friezes and carved portals that hide its underground heart. The Sasso Caveoso, which faces south, is laid out like a Roman amphitheatre, with cave-houses that go down in steps, perhaps taking its name from the caves and classical theatres. Together they form the urban core of ancient 114atera, deemed a UNESCO World Heritage Site. A location that looks more like an inhabited moon that any of the others that we enjoyed exploring as children. Enclosed in this perfume extract is a dream that we have all experienced at least once in our lives: to live on the Moon. Guests were warmed by cosy fireplaces and vibrant chimneys in these cave-houses carved by hand out of the hard rock hundreds of years ago, and this perfume is as strong and hard as the stone that characterises this hidden land! A huge red moon would rise from a small window overlooking the valley, reaching the skylight with a perspective, giving you the feeling that it was close enough to touch. By opening the window and reaching out with your palm facing upwards you could really imagine being able to grasp and cherish that indecipherable satellite. This experience has produced a poignant extrait de parfum with as dark a character as the phenomenon just described. A perfume that is at first almost sycophant and graceful, but just a moment later whisks you away forever. A fragrance that leaves its scent for days after it has been applied, as secret as the hidden city of the Sassi but when you least expect it, its true beauty appears. We are continually surprised by this creation even today, as every time it is worn, new sensations are created.
Fruity Floral
Top Note: Bergamot, Lemon, Orange, Green Notes
Heart Note: Peach, Jasmine, Cedarwood, Patchouly, Magnolia
Base Note: Vanilla, Tonka Bean, Musk, Peach, Heliotrope
The Luna project
Tiziana Terenzi presents her new style project dedicated to the "future of memory". It is an artistic exploration that bases its principles on Tiziana's classic collection, enriching the basic features with fine details from the Stylists's jewellery-making experience.
Tiziana Terenzi Luna
The literary tradition of the medieval chivalric epic "Chanson de Geste", and its subsequent more popular form, tells us that all lost items, or rather items that have "gone astray", end up on the moon. The moon is the place where dreams and tears, love and reason, days of idleness and unfinished deeds are kept in precious glass ampoules. Bottles rather similar to those used to contain Tiziana Terenzi's precious essences today. By opening them and breathing in their content, a ritual that is repeated when we "taste" a perfume, we become the owners of the lost object therein. And when wearing one of these perfumes, we feel a sense of wonder, because this collection embodies the essence of "re-discovery", of recognising the dearest possessions we thought we had lost, or perhaps did not even know that we had forgotten. Wearing these fragrances takes us on an epic journey to the moon in search of our precious lost object.
"The chariot, towering, threads the fiery sphere,/And rises thence into the lunar reign." Thus begins Canto XXXIV of Orlando Furioso, in which the protagonist, the Knight Astolfo, is sent to the moon on a special mission: he must recover Orlando's wits, which he has lost because of love.
Astolfo, Orlando's faithful companion who wants to return the Knight to his senses, travels to the moon on the back of a hippogriff, an incredible, magical, winged horse. Having reached his destination, Astolfo can see everything that has been collected: a rich and varied collection of things that have been lost on earth. Not only the riches and glories of ancient kingdoms, but also the tears and sighs of lovers, the time wasted by men and the projects that they never completed. Tiziana Terenzi wanted to retrieve her own "lost object" from the Moon, by completing an unfinished task that she has been working on for years. An artistic project that combines her golden poetic extraction with the verbalisation of scents that explore cosmic boundaries.Tales of a lunar fire that warms and nourishes travellers on the imagination's journey through distant memories, tales of trips that Tiziana and I made at an early age to memorable places in Italy, of bonfires and moonlight. Maybe that is why in this collection, more than ever, the fairy-tale element of memory clearly emerges, giving her assayers a fragrance created with the pure heart of the child within us, absolutely devoid of any contamination and influenced only by an artistic, loving imagination.The times when we were children, gazing at the sky on warm summer evenings, in the company of our grandfather Guglielmo and our father Evelino come to mind. On the flowered hills close to home, drowning in the scents and aromas of wild nature, we learned to recognise the stars and listened to the poems recited by our grandfather, together with the whole family, around a cheerful, crackling fire. These magical, happy evenings in the moonlight gave rise to a private collection of rare and precious essences, a secret shared only by Tiziana and Paolo. This small but tremendous treasure was composed of such rare and expensive essences that it simply could not be offered to others, unless as a gift. And indeed they had never shared it with anyone else until now. It is.
After more than twenty years of patient toil spent seeking and jealously preserving these rare components, today we are pleased and excited to present four fragrances that embody our most complex stylistic project: Tiziana Terenzi Luna. An exclusive collection inspired by the beauty of wonderment. Childlike wonderment, lost and then found, to be enclosed in the drops of a "lost"perfume which has never been revealed until now. Our own ride on the hippogriff has led us to create four stellar (or mythological or lunar) wonders:
Andromeda
Ursa Major
Draw
Cassiopea
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