Orto Parisi
Orto Parisi was founded in 2014 in Amsterdam by Italian perfumer Alessandro Gualtieri, the creator of Nasomatto. Conceived as an homage to his grandfather’s garden in southern Italy, the brand embodies Gualtieri’s fascination with the raw, primal side of life and nature. Each perfume is a visceral study of the body, its instincts, and its intimate relationship with the earth.
Gualtieri’s training in Germany and career with major fashion houses such as Fendi, Versace, and Valentino gave him a technical foundation. Yet it was his travels across Oman, India, and Saudi Arabia that awakened in him an appreciation for fragrance as a deeply ancient, ritualistic art. With Orto Parisi, he channels that learning into an exploration of fertility, vitality, and mortality—fragrances that celebrate life’s cycles through unapologetically bold compositions.
““My grandfather Vincenzo used to fertilise his garden with what was available. This garden, where I spent my childhood, is now Orto Parisi. It is a place that has taught me that our body is experienced like a garden, and its smells are the sincere expression of our soul.”
— Alessandro Gualtieri, founder and perfumer
Orto Parisi shares the mystery that defines Gualtieri’s work. Ingredient lists are undisclosed, encouraging each wearer to interpret the perfumes through instinct rather than formula. The collection embraces paradoxes: beauty in decay, vitality in earthiness, allure in the animalic. Each scent is designed as a statement, a provocation, and an invitation to confront the raw power of nature and the human body.
Examples include Bergamask, a luminous citrus that evolves into an unsettlingly animalic trail, blurring the line between attraction and repulsion; Seminalis, inspired by the notion of a fragrance that awakens procreation instincts; and Terroni, which channels volcanic soil and the primal force of the earth’s creation.
Like Nasomatto, Orto Parisi is hand-produced in small batches in Amsterdam. But where Nasomatto thrives on abstraction and artistic provocation, Orto Parisi is rooted in flesh, soil, and life itself. These perfumes are not mere adornments – they are confrontations with the essence of existence, expressed through scent.
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