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Hanibal74 – :
An interesting fragrance… Starts very green amd spicy with the presence of weed but ends softer, smelling vanilla tonka in the direction of brut. This perfume changes dratically from start to the end. It has an excellent longevity and sillage. The smokiness from black afgano (cannabis) is there as well but hidden. Generally most of orto parisi line have something from black afgano.
koman67 – :
Top notes are green like vetiver, slightly citrusy and with hints of mint – possibly pepper mint. but after a few minutes the mintyness is gone. But this is no linear perfume. Oh no. Dry down is a bit musky with bitter almonds and vanilla. In fact, about a hour after putting it on my skin it smells like a softer version of Tom Ford’s Fucking Fabulous. I felt that it smelled much better on paper than it did on my skin – don’t blind buy this perfume. Personally, I can’t really say that this combination works for me. The interesting start that the perfume offers falls short of what it could deliver. Gualtieri could do much better and in his own works in Nasomatto he does. This feels less polished and refined than the Nassomatto range but this perfume will will nonetheless fall into may peoples favour, just not mine.
Hameleon44 – :
I tried Viride on my skin today. It has a rich green woody smell that I like. The notes are not listed here, but there is a muted warm freshness that makes me think of a refined minty patchouli note. The scent is also pretty musky on my skin. So I guess the notes that we missing should be musk and patchouli (or other ingredients that give the impression of this combination).
The scent is familiar but I can’t nail anything in particular. It has a nice classic edge to it as well. Overall I like the smell of it. However, considering the price tag it doesn’t make it to my wardrobe.
andreirogovcev – :
Viride is my second try from the house of Orto Parisi after Boccanera, and like Boccanera, I quite like Viride. Again omitting specific notes, perhaps a feature of this brand like Nasomatto, Viride is a green and woody fragrance as generally categorized.
It’s hearty, with plenty of depth, so a mix of woods is what mainly comes to mind, though there’s a slight, subtle brightness that allows it to be, at the same time, sort of green.
I can’t quite discern what notes are involved, only that there’s an earthy side to it as well, perhaps with patchouli or vetiver.
Performance is outstanding, as it was with Boccanera, definitely a little more impressive on longevity than projection, as many are, but still powerful juice if you dig the fragrance. The price of even a perfume ($195 for 50ml on Luckyscent et al) is difficult to justify unless it’s a love, as almost $4 per ml is on the pricier side for sure.
Viride is certainly a fragrance worth trying, but I doubt anything but a dramatic price reduction could make me have any serious interest in buying it. Still, I rather like it, just don’t love it.
7 out of 10
Gakdavara – :
I find the whole collection something uninspired: variations on a unique theme, a pinwheel of all the same notes, sometimes one prevals on the others, sometimes an other one, you expecially can easily note this if you know Nasomatto collection also. Massive longevity and sillage, but really boring.
Xeroxuztpn – :
Orto Parisi Viride
Mediocre in its true meaning
Viride should be called an opening perfume.
It does have a very fascinating and sophisticated opening which is mainly green and bitter in which I can detect a bitter scent of angelica, a touch of tobacco and oud as Gualtiery’s favorite and key ingredient.
There is also a pale sweetness probably coming from an ambery accord.
But all of this beauty leads to a really banal, clichéd and unremarkable woody-powdery base.
Even the quality is not up to our expectation.
The drydown of Viride somehow reminds me of Jovan Sex Appeal! However, Jovan is more sophisticated and has a nice spicy-ambery accord not seen in Viride.
I think Brutus is the best of this collection, though there’s nothing ground-breaking about it.
So I humbly recommend you my dear friends to save your money, you can buy much better perfumes in this category at lesser price tags.
jhz963Bessinepome – :
Go figure I loved the nassomatto project…
A new age more modern take on “Italian cypresses” of the world..love this stuff and on skin it lasts forever! So clean and very masculine. Very green feeling and fused with high end woods! Love this juice and now I’m going on order the Orto parasi sample kit!!
kergudu – :
I am on a roll today! I order a bottle of Frank Los Angeles no 2 from the scent bar in Los Angeles and they send me about 6 samples of all things they know I am going to love. I tell them I’m on a citrus summer niche hunt right now to expand this part of my collection.
Wow. This is very green. Refreshing. It has a nassomatto like DNA to it also.
Such a masculine fresh green fragrance.
This of course is a first impression, but the projection is pretty monster right now for this type of scent.
I think I’m going to go for a full bottle if it doesn’t take a turn throughout the dry down. I’m in such awe right now!
10/10
rus1234 – :
green herby and and something smooth and plain, most likely the woods.
this could be so much more.
i get the feeling its ‘minimal’ aesthetic is a front for a relatively tame offering here…
5letov – :
Viride comes from Latin meaning ‘green’. GREEN/VIRILITY Alessandro Gualtieri
Reviewer named isanie nailed it, this smells a little like Absinth.
It is a green, moss, herbal, slightly woody fragrance.
Viride has a Fougère feel to it.
sedoy_tc – :
This to me is not bottle worthy… Its OK but thats that. I detect incense on my skin. It reminds me of fragrance my dad used 30 years back but can’t remember what it was.
This one is not a blind that said none of the OP line are… well maybe I could recommend Boccanera easier then this. This is quite a spicy and dry sent so be aware of that also its quite linear greens, wood and spices and some smoke thats pretty much it.
IMHO Boccanera, Stercus and Brutus are the ones that are the picks on this line for me this and Bergamask not really. At lest not for me.
MERLIN1982 – :
Orto Parisi, to me, smells like a more accessible, cheaper, entry level version of Nasomatto In the same way that Gerald Ghislain has HdP as his main line, and then introduced the cheaper (both in price and quality of ingredients), less polished, more accessible “Scent of Departure” line. The unfortunate aspect of Orto is that while the fragrances are less polished, somewhat unfinished in nature, and more pedestrian, they are still hugely expensive. While I think the line has one winner (which I will get around to reviewing soon), as a whole, Orto Parisi is nonessential in the utmost sense of the word.
Viride is somewhere in the middle of the line for me. It’s not insultingly bad (bergamask, looking at you), but it’s not really pleasant and certainly not worth $190 for 50 ml. Wearing this left me with a resounding “meh” cloud in my head.
It opens not unlike PG’s Coze but without the dusty chocolately gourmandic facets of that. As such, it is a very green, woody scent with some subtle spice and a bitter green pot-esque note. I detect patchouli, pine, cedar, pepper, a touch of cinnamon perhaps? some oakmoss? It’s not exactly easy to dissect, not to say that it is complex as its kind of just a green slab of aroma. There isnt much texture to it, and there certainly isnt a top heart and base, its just this huge brick of green that follows you around. In the far drydown on skin it gets weirdly fougere-like but its like some funhouse mirror version where everything is heavily out of whack. It performs well but it is much, much quieter than some of Alessandro’s other nose bombs.
In summary I don’t hate this, but it is kind of mediocre. I cant imagine someone wanting to pay so much for such a weird green brick of a fragrance. 5/10
_max36_ – :
Viride tricks you into thinking Gualtieri’s gone back in time, but Viride—the name of a deep, jelly-green andalusite gemstone—is built upon his usual bag of tricks. Highly unnatural and cranked up to at least thirteen, Viride blasts off with some coniferous items merged with herbs—some of which run a tad minty. This digital forest pushes the scent a tad too “cleaning product” at times, but reels itself in before falling apart completely. Picture a wall of anonymous “green” scented chemicals over a slightly powdery base (that gets progressively sweeter as the scent develops) and you’ll have a sense of what this is about. Slight vegetal, mossy, herbal, coniferous notes are present, but bleed together because of the sheer volume. Also, I’d argue that the weed note that pops up in the Nasomatto line makes a return here—it’s subtle, but I think it’s there. There’s no space, no definition, no real texture, just volume. The result is paradoxical: opportunities were clearly missed to inject dynamics; yet despite the total barrage, it somehow manages to keep keep within the limits of decency. Like much of Gualtieri’s work, Viride can be compared to the kind of digital music production that overuses compression—all of the peaks and valleys are smashed flat, and the result is amplified to speaker-destroying levels. This is an inarticulate scent—but it has a home amongst other scents that place insane longevity and projection as a primary concern.
baron5589 – :
Le parti del corpo che portano più odore sono quelle nelle quali si raccoglie più anima .
I forti odori sono diventati sgradevoli per noi, perché l’eccesso di anima è intollerabile al punto che il nostro animalismo innato è represso e bandito dalla civiltà.
Questo progetto è il mio giardino che ho piantato, concimato, coltivato e raccolto. Orto Parisi afferma che il nostro corpo è vissuto come un giardino, ed i suoi profumi sono un vero specchio della nostra anima.
Citazione di Alessandro Gualtieri
E finalmente, ho potuto esplorare la nuova linea di Alessandro Gualtieri: Orto Parisi grazie all’amico Giovanni Padovan titolare insieme alla moglie Lia Lo Brutto, della storica Antica Profumeria al Sacro Cuore, per ora mi limito a darvi qualche info e a consigliarvi, se avete la possibilità, di andarli ad annusare. Perché sono ben fatti, armoniosi, seducenti, con un gusto per la rotondità e la sensualità tipico della grande profumeria classica, e quindi con note corpose e coinvolgenti (note animali, resine e legni di origine sia naturale che sintetica). Annusandole, si capisce quanto Alessandro sia ormai diverso da qualche anno fa, quando il suo talento era sottolineato dalla voglia di stupire, di provocare. Oggi la provocazione è sempre lì -evidentemente lo diverte- ma è affiancata da una maturità, da una confidenza che non ha bisogno di dimostrare alcunché, e che trova soddisfazione nel rendere omaggio alle proprie radici, ad un nonno molto amato Vincenzo Parisi; l’Orto era, appunto, il suo,concimato personalmente.. .e ,alla sua vita semplice di contadino. Insomma, l’ho riconosciuto “grande” in una maniera che mi ha colpito.
Le fragranze sono proprio belle e testimoniano una vita fatta di odori, sensazioni e gesti antichi, considerati normali fino a qualche decennio fa, e semisconosciuti per noi: Stercus è l’odore caldo e rassicurante delle stalle che ospitano cavalli e mucche ed è senz’altro uno di quegli odori che chi ha avuto la fortuna di conoscerlo da bambino si porta nel cuore per sempre. Viride è l’odore verde e secco dei campi coltivati durante l’estate,una nota freschissima verde di erba e fieno che non svanisce ma si apre diventando poco a poco dolce quasi a ricordare un vetiver, Bergamask,si apre con uno stridio di bergamotto quasi del tutto coprente ,ed al primo impatto puo’ risultare troppo presente poi lentamente evolve diventa caldissimo ,ricorda i profumi dei nostri genitori ,essenze eleganti quelle che si mettevano solo alla domenica per andare alla messa molto elegante.
Boccanera ,parte violentissimo ,ricordandomi le camere fumose ,dove normalmente veniva posto il camino della famiglia e mi ricorda l’odore delle ceneri dei legni utilizzati per riscaldare la cucina ,resinoso animale quanto basta per poi nel passare delle ore ingentilirsi e dare al tutto un tocco soave un profumo che rasserena .
Brutus ,una overture quasi liquorosa di rum invecchiato ,poi ne ritrovo elementi canforati quasi a ricordarmi i vecchi cassetti dove venivano riposti i contenitori in legno dei vecchi orologi e dei pochi oggetti preziosi ,come le catenine e gli anelli che la famiglia si tramandava .
Queste sono le mie sensazioni ,sono profumi molto particolari e ben costruiti ,a distanza di cinque ore ancora stanno evolvendo e sara’ un vero piacere quando i veri esperti ci sveleranno le note di questo meraviglioso progetto.
. Ovviamente sono tutte fragranze indossabilissime, perché la visione estetica di Alessandro sarà pure provocatoria e originale, ma non dimentica mai un assunto fondamentale: che le fragranze devono, soprattutto, essere piacevoli da indossare. E queste lo sono tutte.
Nota a margine, mi piace molto il flacone semplice e morbido, senza frivolezze inutili, e ogniuno ha nel tappo un legno diverso incastonato in quello che sembra ottone,che mi pare rispecchi appieno sia il profumo che contiene, che l’ispirazione di fondo.
Ecco Giovanni come promesso ho tentato la mia personale recensione spero sia attinente e coerente al compito che mi hai affidato .