Viride personifies a very strong green character. Alessandro was inspired to create this fragrance after visiting Yemen and encountering a tradition where the men wear floral crowns made out of different aromatic herbs and flowers. These colorful floral garlands are worn in a bid to look and smell good in the intense heat. As well as making the men look and smell nicer, some of the garlands have a medicinal purpose and are used to cure headaches. This floral crown is a symbol of health, beauty and seduction. Despite their love of flowers, these tribes are notoriously violent and engage in cross-border battles. Some tribes are so dangerous that the police refuses to enter some of the villages.

Viride embodies the stirring of the power and strength of the tradition, the dark side, the garden of knowledge that we cultivate and experience every day, where the plants grow spontaneously by developing strong and authentic roots. Meaning green in Latin, Viride is a very Mediterranean aromatic perfume. It contains a high dosage of old fashioned green notes, such as rosemary, sage and thyme, the plants that create an image of a freshly collected herbaceous crop that suits and represents the virility of both, men and women.

PACKAGING LEADS TO EXPLORE MORE
All Orto Parisi fragrances are hidden in a box that opens up into a metropolis and reveals an infinite hole of the center. Viride floats in a glass flask with a tumbled gold metal cap with an inlaid lignum verde. Labelled by ‘savile row tweed paper’ with a very fine herringbone structure.

KEY ASPECTS OF ORTO PARISI

FRESHNESS vs STENCH
ATTRACTION vs REPULSION
Two notes present in every fragrance are ‘PISSE DE CHEVAL’ and ‘BOYA BUTTER’.
Boya butter is the butter of precious agarwood, which is formed in the heartwood of aquilaria trees when they become infected by certain type of mould. Prior the infection the heartwood is odourless, light and pale, while after the infection it becomes dark and starts producing a very aromatic resin called agar, also known as oud. First-grade agarwood is one of the most expensive natural raw materials in the world. The odour of agarwood is complex and enchanting with almost no existing analogues. 
So-called ‘pisse de cheval’ is p-Cresol, an organic compound that is produced by bacterial fermentation of protein in the human bodies and is excreted in the feces and urine. It is also a constituent of tobacco smoke and a component of human sweat that is attractive to female mosquitoes. In the collection of Orto Parisi, p-Cresol plays a part by creating repulsive and attractive notes, since it is a major component in pig odor and a present odor during musth in male elephants. This compound is one of the very few that plays the role in attracting the orchid bee and has been widely used to capture and study the species. An off-putting captive that awakens the hidden smell of the soul. These very well-hidden, two base elements in use represent the contradictory of attraction and repulsion in a balanced combination with other raw materials.
They invite the sniffer on an infinite real life smell trip.

Made in: Italy

Packaging: Glass spray bottle

Ingredients: Alcohol Denat., Aqua (water), Parfum (fragrance), Isoeugenol, Safrole, Benzyl Cinnamate, Cinnamyl Alcohol, Benzyl Benzoate, Citronellols, Benzyl Alcohol, Farnesol, Coumarin, Methyl Eugenol, Geraniol, Citral, Cinnamal, Linalool, Eugenol, Limonene, Hydroxycitronellal, Benzyl Salicylate, BHT, Benzophenone, C.I. 19140, C.I. 14700, C.I. 42090. 80% vol. Alcohol.