The soft lights seem to fondle the wrinkled sound of the old vinyl disc, and play hide-and-seek in the warm embrace of the jazz singer’s voice. The wide french-window is opened on the terrace. Outside, only the cicadas shrill drowning and the warm summer breeze. On the tea-table, a nosegay of freshly plucked flowers, flooding the room with a cocktail of smells and a bright colour palette. You uncork a champagne bottle and fill the two flutes. The unmistakable flavour of yeast hovers in the air. You settle into the couch, to enjoy this moment, and take a good look around – every single detail is simply perfect. You then close your eyes, breathe deeply, listen to the sound of her steps on the stairs. Can’t help smiling. You wish these moments would never end. There comes a knock on the door.
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The opening of the fragrance is Turkish rose oil, roses, the African sponsor needle and the Empire; The heart of the Turkish roses and patchouli; The base of the fragrance consists of (amber) Emolrom, musk and rice trees.
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L'Attesa by Masque Milano is a Floral Woody Musk fragrance for women and men. L'Attesa was launched in 2016. The nose behind this fragrance is Luca Maffei. Top notes are Champagne, Bergamot and Neroli; middle notes are Iris, Orris Root, Ylang-Ylang and Tuberose; base notes are Leather, Oakmoss and Sandalwood.
Love Kills by Masque Milano is a Floral fragrance for women and men. Love Kills was launched in 2019. The nose behind this fragrance is Caroline Dumur. Top notes are Turkish Rose Oil, Rose, African Geranium and Ambrette (Musk Mallow); middle notes are Turkish Rose and Patchouli; base notes are Ambrarome, Musk and Cedar Essence.
The perfumer Caroline Dumur stands at the center of the stage to represent the third scene in MASQUE MILANO Opera Act of Love
“Tonight she is Imogen… and tomorrow night she will be Juliet”.
For this fragrance, Alessandro and Riccardo couldn’t help pointing the spotlight on the quintessential flower of love: her majesty the Rose. A rose soliflora: love on stage.
The bottle design depicts a magnificent rose, pierced by a dagger. As in the perfect love tragedy.
Caroline’s rose is turbulent and vivid, offering up a bloom that makes us feel the scent of it and want to wear it’s beauty, participate in its frenzy.
Upon vaporising, the rose appears fresh and dewy, its spicy aspect enhanced by geranium and ambrette seeds, and the metallic facet boosted by rose oxide.
In the drydown, the rose in full bloom is just a faint memory. The rose absolute takes the place of the rose oil fading away, while patchouli and musks help conveying the feeling of a dried flower, symbolizing love gone by.
In Love Kills, senses are flooded with a beautiful anthology of odoriferous suggestions. Jammy, smeared, boudoir, powder, gardenwet, gardenhot, stormstruck blooms, boozy, silvered, Loukhoum, plasticised, petrolic, oud-soaked, patisserie, powdered, lipstick, bitter, cold, pot-pourri, sleeping beauty thorn-twisted. One could honestly live forever amid the roses, admittedly with some iris and violet thrown in. Roses soothe, arouse and pique the senses, creating a tension that is at once illicit and vintage, perverse and hazily comforting.
Mandala by Masque Milano is a Oriental fragrance for women and men. Mandala was launched in 2017. The nose behind this fragrance is Christian Carbonnel. Top notes are Olibanum, Angelica and Nutmeg; middle notes are Incense, Cardamom, Labdanum, Cedar, Cloves and Cinnamon; base notes are Myrrh, Ambergris, Sandalwood and Oakmoss.
If Luci ed Ombre is a fragrance representing the undecidedness between light and shadow, with Mandala our creative directors wanted a fragrance able to “sing two notes at the same time”. Having a change to step into a faraway monastery, and listen to monks performing “overtone singing”, is an out-of-this-world experience – hence the endeavour to recreate a fragrance conveying the same meditative, trance-like feeling. Myrrh and incense are the two most prominent notes of this composition.
Alessandro and Riccardo were introduced to Christian Carbonnel, several years ago, by a friend, lover of opulent fragrances. So they met Christian and got to know more about his company. With time, the friendship between Alessandro, Riccardo and Christian grew, and finally Alessandro and Riccardo decided it was high time they started a collaboration with the talented Spanish perfumer. On top of his experience with spicy and ambery fragrances, Christian surprised the creative team with some incredible materials.
Mandala opens with a kaleidoscope of spices, creating the feeling of a whopping medical-dipped oud, sweaty, shuddering and sensual. Yet no agarwood was employed in the composition.
A steroidal incense work, myrrh and frankincense smashed into one-another with great energy. Christian’s perfume work is cleverly composed of ingredients he understands very well and combined in such a way as to impact the senses in a vivid-fireworks-in-the dark style.
The myrrh and frankincense punch out at you simultaneously; for a dizzying moment the mind and nose are overwhelmed. You’d be forgiven for thinking these two notes will be the only things you will smell, such is the kickass joy of the overture. Then then two coalesce into a single high-toned note, steady and unbroken, the odd vegetal bitterness of the myrrh smoothed out by the woody ancient Zen of frankincense. Two materials in fascinating harmony yet still discernible as separate components.
Eventually, Mandala was launched in 2017 alongside Bruno Jovanovic’s Times Square. The two fragrances project two quite different facets of Masque Milano, indeed a duo of perfumes divergent enough in style as to cause a few ripples of intrigue in the busybody world of perfume gossip.
Tango by Masque Milano is a Oriental Floral fragrance for women and men. Tango was launched in 2013. The nose behind this fragrance is Cécile Zarokian.
Whispers all around you, the party is merry. The soft music in the background gets gradually louder. A crescendo. A glass, another glass. Ron y miel. Inebriating, amber nectar. Inebriating as the smell of the blooming jasmine, carried along by the warm summer gusts. A crescendo. You meet her gaze – she whispers a couple of words. You spot it – it is Lunfardo. Your forehead drenched with sweat. Salt melts in the sugar of the liquor. The shuffling Gotan rhythm makes you brave, the night and the tango are on your side. A crescendo. Deafening summons. The air gets even hotter. You are aware it will hurt you. Yet you can’t resist.
You stand up and head towards the dance floor… her face lights up with a smile that brightens the night… That is all you long for, now.
Terralba by Masque Milano is a Woody Aromatic fragrance for women and men. Terralba was launched in 2013. The nose behind this fragrance is Delphine Thierry. Top notes are Lemon, Clary Sage and Tangerine; middle notes are Thyme, Myrtle, Curry Tree and Immortelle; base notes are Cypress, Juniper, Mastic or Lentisque and Cedar.
Times Square by Masque Milano is a fragrance for women and men. Times Square was launched in 2017. The nose behind this fragrance is Bruno Jovanovic. Top notes are Violet, Hazelnut and Rose; middle notes are Osmanthus and Tuberose; base notes are Styrax, Guaiac Wood and Sandalwood.
In MASQUE MILANO Times Square, extremes are intersecting, the excess becomes norm, as people are surrendering to the restless indulgence and irresistible wildness of the city that never sleeps.
Mind you: the surprising opening of glossy lipstick and hazelnut spread will blow you away!
The floral heart expresses a visible sensuality, seductive and provocative, with a prominent white floral tuberose, and the supple suede texture of the osmanthus. The drydown , with the styrax – representing the rubber of the many taxis lining up in Broadway – perfectly blends with the soft notes of sandalwood and gajacwood, to support the sensuality and offer to the wearer a memorable drydown.
As some of our customers and perfume critics described it, “this is the fragrance I want to spray all over my body and soul – so powdery and rubbery at the same time”, “Times Square is for embracing the world, with its beauty and ugliness, sacred and profane”, “ If you have the desire to step into the intensity you will find cheap lipstick, blowsy florals, steam, leather, and rubber all coming together to form a decadent beauty”.
This extreme idea of the heart of the Big Apple, back in the days, is interpreted by the superstar perfumer Bruno Jovanovic, that was able to recreate an impressive rendition of the jungle of neon lights that first struck Alessandro back in 1993.
There was no budget limit for the creation of Times Square (as for every other creation of Masque Milano line) and the whole staff at IFF has been incredibly supportive. Thanks to headspace technology*, and the genius of Bruno and his team, we were able to recreate accords representing 1980’s glossy lipstick and “neon light” makeup, street food, smell of tires melting in the asphalt.
