Nostos EDP 100 ml

NOSTOS, where Achilles is more beautiful than Ulysses.

 

Nostos in Greek means Return: an impossible return, which speaks to the heart and imagination, a return where space and time meet and hope dwells.

But Nostos is also the root of the word nostalgia, that poignant feeling that is the evil of Nostos.

Perfume is the vehicle of this return to which we aspire in vain. Like an intense and penetrating incense that could burn for three thousand years, the fragrance celebrates the Homeric epic of the most beautiful of heroes, whose wrath and its unpredictable consequences have made the Trojan War immortal.

The symbol of the desired and unrealized Nostos is Achilles. It is not the Nostos of Ulysses and his Odyssey, but of Achilles, the emblem of this fragrance, conceived by the gods and born of love, like the Trojan War.

 

Achilles is a complex hero with a dual essence, the divine one of his mother, the goddess Thetis, and the human one of his father Peleus. He carries within himself the beauty of duality. He is a powerful warrior, with penetrating scents of musk and the extreme virility of oud, without which Troy could not be defeated, but he also shows the delicate femininity of the rose.

 

Achilles is the violence and beauty of the extraordinary diversity of human beings.

 

Spear or shield: this perfume contains a dual nature in which the Greek hero conquers us among the scents of jasmine and sandalwood. Art of war or love: the fragrance reaches perfection to attack time, fight against our limited destinies and finally triumph over the merciless Greek gods through amber, saffron and incense.

 

Achilles will never return to his homeland, he knows it and fights against his destiny, always driven by the desire to return, haunted by this mocking weapon opposed in vain to fate, by the nostalgia in which we see his humanity triumph.

 

The perfume of the most beautiful of the Greek heroes, fragile and dangerous, forged by Hephaestus, the god of fire, to promise victory.

 

Top notes: Essence of Enscens, Essence of Mandarin, Saffron

Heart notes: Essence and Absolute of Turkish Rose, Absolute of Jasmine, Oud Accord

Base notes: Sandalwood, Georgie Wood, Ambrofix, Suede, Musk

 

EDP 100 ml