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NEW CREATIONS WITH OUD

Symbio studio,  an American film production company has realized   ITALY MADE WITH LOVE a documentary on some Italian artisan realities . For niche perfumery he chose SPEZEIRIE PALAZZO VECCHIO and for this we are very proud and grateful. Today this video is an opportunity to tell you about the two new fragrances we have been working on for several months now in which we experimented with a new raw material for us: oud.

Agarwood, or oud is the dark aromatic resin that forms in Aquilaria and Gyrinops trees that are native to Southeast Asia, when they are infected by a particular type of mold. It is a woody, animal, sweet, balsamic raw material. It is also very expensive due to the reduction of natural resources to produce oud. For this reason, today perfumeries, with a view to sustainability, create bases that reproduce oud starting from natural extracts and synthetic molecules and using natural oud in very small parts.

The perfumes we are creating therefore use an Oud base which has precisely these characteristics and that is, it is woody, sweet and balsamic and not very animal. we made this choice because it is closer to our formulation style.

HAIKU, based on Peony and Oud is a perfume that is positioned between dream and reality. Inspired by an imaginary world full of colors surrounded by nature. Reality and imagination mix in a dreamlike vision. It represents the enchanting lightness of being that cannot do without passion and spirituality.
OLFACTORY PYRAMID
Peach, pear, bergamot accord
Warm heart accord (tuberose and rose), peony
Oud, Amber and Vanilla

KERALA, based on black pepper and Oud is a masculine fragrance in which I mixed the sweet and woody baslamic resin of oud with the strong freshness of mint and cardamom, immersed in a pungent concrete heart of geranium and black pepper. Head and heart then rely on a sweet base of amber and coumarin. KERALA is the name of the region where black pepper comes from.

RAW MATERIAL
Spearmint, cardamom, bergamot
Bourbon geranium, jasmine, black pepper, cloves
Oud, Ambergris (Iso and Super), Tobacco, Coumarin

These two fragrances are now in maceration in alcohol, the first long maceration of 4 weeks. after bottling and labelling, they will finally be on our physical and virtual shelves.

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But why is this vanilla so special!

We at Spezierie Palazzo Vecchio have always loved vanilla, it was its founder Dr. Di Massimo, my father, who fell in love with her when this raw material had not yet gained the limelight.

Since then most of our perfumes contain vanilla even maybe a small percentage. Vanilla is a base note, very persistent and with a medium intensity. Our VANIGLIA DEL MADAGASCAR perfume was already on the shelf on the day of the opening of our herbal shop on December 8, 1990. Together with perfumes based on raw materials that were very fashionable at the time such as Lily of the Valley, Honeysuckle and our Caterina de ‘ Medici, the VANIGLIA DEL MADAGASCAR, a Gourmand perfume, was an absolute novelty for niche perfumery. The term Gourmand in fact entered the language only in 1992.

Our Vanilla was thus born from an idea of my father who chose to use only natural vanillin by mixing Madagascar vanilla with Mexican vanilla, the first fatter and softer with delicate and floral aromas and the second hotter, more powerful and strongly chocolaty. Combined with creamy and white floral notes, it is today our best-selling perfume in the world, mentioned in various perfume books, reviewed in dozens of videos as one of the most persistent and pleasantly edible vanilla scents.

And that’s why we can’t stop creating new vanilla scented products. The VANIGLIA DEL MADAGASCAR body lotion and shower gelV have long been part of the collection. But from today we also have the new LIP GLOSS VANIGLIA DEL MADAGASCAR: an all-natural product based on castor seed oil and glittery beeswax for a super bright effect and delicately scented with vanilla.

And soon a new scented bag for wardrobes and drawers will arrive with our unmistakable Vanilla aroma.

To crown it all, the oil painting on canvas “Vanilla Orchid” by Paulina Jakubiuk that we bought two years ago, on display in our shop in Florence and that we have reproduced on all the cases.

In short, vanilla lovers can have an olfactory feast here!