NOSTOS, where Achilles is more handsome than Ulysses.
NOSTOS in Greek means return - that which is forever impossible, that speaks to the heart and the imagination. Returning within the confusing space and time where hope remains.
NOSTOS is the root of the poignant feeling called nostalgia, the pain of NOSTOS.
Here, perfume is the means of return that one vainly aspires to. Like the intense, deep incense that would burn for three thousand years, the perfume celebrates Homer's epic of the most beautiful of heroes, whose rage and its unforeseeable consequences led to the Trojan War.
The totemic shape of the desired but unfulfilled nose is Achilles. This is not the Ulysses and Odyssey complex. Here, it is Achilles, the emblem of the fragrance, depicted by myth as born of love, like the Trojan War.
Achilles is a complex hero with a dual essence: mythical through his mother Thetis, human through his father Peleus. He carries within him the beauty of duality, at times a fearsome warrior with a powerful, penetrating musk—the intense masculinity of the lute, without which Troy cannot be defeated—and at times the femininity of the rose.
Achilles is the violence and beauty found in the extraordinary diversity of humanity.
Spear or shield, this fragrance also has a dual nature, adorning the Greek hero with attractions made of jasmine and sandalwood. The art of war or love, the fragrance approaches perfection in order to attack time, fight our limited destinies and finally the merciless Greek victory with amber, saffron and incense.
Achilles will never return home. He knows this, and he fights this fate, always torn apart by the desire to return, haunted by this pathetic weapon against power, this longing in which we see his humanity triumph.
The scent of the most beautiful Greek hero, fragile and dangerous, formulated by Hephaestus, to ensure victory.
Perfume components
Editorial:
Incense, mandarin, saffron
Heart of the perfume:
Turkish rose, jasmine, oud
The rule:
Sandalwood, Suede, Musk
