Il Giardino Delle Delizie
The representation of human vices.
The second scent brings us to the "Garden of Earthly Delights" by Hieronymus Bosh, exhibited at the El Prado Museum in Madrid. This triptych is considered a masterpiece of surrealism for its complex symbolism: humanity is represented, according to the Christian doctrine of the Middle Ages, with all its vices and perversions in a satirical representation of the sins of men.
On the exterior panels, visible only when the Triptych is closed, in the upper part God appears in the act of creation: the world is represented as a transparent sphere. Once opened, it reveals its great beauty.
Paradiso Perduto
The fragrance of the fragrance is inspired by the central panel, where pleasures and love are represented: exotic animals symbolizing lust, a host of naked figures, some of whom are in erotic abandon, others at the chrysalis stage are fed by birds that carry cherries and strawberries in beaks, considered as fruits with aphrodisiac properties. In the third panel, the scene turns into a demonic concert: musical instruments become means of inflicting suffering and pain. An olfactory representation of the contrasts present in the triptych.
The Perfumer
I imagined a dreamlike and bizarre fragrance that conveys eccentricity, lust and freedom. I wanted to give power to the fruity notes as a symbol of exoticism and aphrodisiac temptation. I wanted to capture the symbolism of this work. an olfactory illusion of the surreal.