February 14th, 2008 1:58 PMScent Notes Teint de Neige by Lorenzo Villoresi
By Chandler Burr
In 1981, a Florentine doctoral student studying ancient philosophy took a trip to the Middle East and visited a local market. There he discovered highly-scented spices and perfume essences, which he brought home with him. He began mixing them to create fragrances. Then he began studying perfumery. In 1990, he began his namesake perfume house. Lorenzo Villoresi operates out of his family’s 15th century palazzo at Via de Bardi, 14 in Florence....
The first he called his “monothematics,” fragrances, which were interpretations of specific perfume raw materials, precise olfactory concepts. Sandalo, for example (“Sandalwood”), and Incensi (“Incense”), which smelled, as precisely as possible, of sandalwood and incense. The other collection he called “fantasy” perfumes, highly abstract works of olfactory art....
2 comments:
I'll try one more time--my museum's firewall ate my last attempt at a comment...
yes, let's please hang out!
Those damn museums and their silly security-
I'd love to hang out with you; your neighborhood is cool. Let's maybe meet for drinks and snacks and shop for red shoes or similar :)
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