Orto Parisi Cuoium Parfum Size:5mL Sample and never quite understand why

and never quite understand why

Note: this is the original Mefisto — a related 2018 release

and it is tempered by osmanthus rather than sharpened by citrus

spicy-herbal composition with a woody-earthy foundation — closer to a bright herb garden than a food-forward gourmand

It sits in the same sweet-amber neighbourhood but takes a fruitier

Orto Parisi Cuoium Parfum Size:5mL Sample and never quite understand whyDescription Cuoium is Latin for leather, and Alessandro Gualtieri took the brief literally this is raw hide, not a boutique leather accord. Released in 2021 under his Orto Parisi label, it opens animalic and woody, passes briefly through violet, and settles into leather, incense, cade oil, labdanum, cedar, patchouli and vanilla. The cade oil is what makes it singular: a smoky, tarry, almost medicinal birch tar quality that smells less like a new