Tiziana Terenzi -Ursa Extrait de Parfum 100 ml
The story of this fragrance originates around Lake Coma A body of water that has always fascinated us because it is far deeper even than the sea where we live, yet surrounded by spectacular mountains. In fact, the lake is situated in a basin surrounded by mountains covered in forests, with a varied and perfumed landscape.
Along its shores, there are pastures, woods, rugged and imposing rocks, picturesque villages overlooking the water and beautiful villas with parks and gardens. The central part of the lake, where all three of its branches meet, is the mildest point, but has the broadest landscape.
We loved reaching this crossroads of water in the boat and seeing the best views over the promontory of Bellagio, on northern Grigna overlooking the Valsassina and, on clear days, the upper basin with the Alps in the background.Our most familiar and best-loved place has always been the Lecco branch, with its more rugged and picturesque panorama, the Grigna mountain massif in the south, of Dolomite origin, and the Corny" di Canzo rocks which reach the lake forming picturesque bays and inlets. Our favourite retreat was the source of the Fiumelatte, described by Leonardo da Vinci. It was already known as "Fiumelaccio" in the Codex Atlanticus by Leonardo da Vinci who was very intrigued by this phenomenon.
"The Fiumelaccio falls from on high dropping more than 100 fathoms from the vein which gives it birth, falling sheer into the lake with the noisiest of rushes."
stream that had intrigued Leonardo da Vinci bewitched us too as children, because of a feature that is not found anywhere else in the world: water flows in the stream intermittently from March 25 until October 7. The water comes from a mysterious cave full of scents that are impossible to describe. Indeed any attempt to do so would be an understatement to say the least. A place where the alchemy of the perfumer first came to life. Even the rock of the cave was perfumed. After the period when the stream flows intermittently, you can see its channel: it appears to resemble a real lunar landscape shrouded in the cosmic oven of a place where there is never any natural light. Venturing inside, with a torch of fire, felt as if we were walking on the moon, but 1 have an even more exciting and vivid memory of that place. I recall leaving and finding myself in front of the mirror of calm water of the lake where the changing moon and the Ursa Major lying above the high mountains were reflected, both immersed in an enveloping scent of earth and roots, refreshed by the smell of the water. This emotion generated a firm, yet reassuring scent, like a hand that sustains you along an arduous path. A strength and a warmth that never lets you down.
Oriental Woody
Top: Nutmeg, Elemi, Dried Fruits, Rhum
Heart: Patchouli, Olibonum, Incense, Tobecca, Vetiver
Base: Vanilla, Leather, Oud Buoy°, Agarwood
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
