Talismans protect and grant us power; they are private prayers we hold close and whisper to in the dark. We wash them in tears. In times of shadow lo v e t h em , and ash they remind us we are protect them safe and loved, guided and sacred. ------and they will love Talismans Collezione Preziosa is a collection of perfumed extracts worn as fetish and armour. and protect

Imbued with spirit, dark and deepest love, you on return, halo and perfumed divinity. like a prayer… Worn on skin, close and intimate, they ward off affliction, mischief and harm. Naples, the City of San Gennaro is the motherlode the fertile genesis of Talismans Collezione Preziosa.

A city both sacred and profane where a blood miracle is a miracle of love. Choose your protection. In the ancient shadow of rumbling Vesuvius, From The Fool and Journeyman of the Major Arcana, the earth sleeps and mutters a dream of the sea’s embryonic embrace, darkly in dreams of fire-painted skies and embers. the yearning vastness of a nebulous cosmos Odours of ash, incineration and the miraculous resurrection of holy blood. and portent fill centuries of uncertainty. There is a talisman to protect and love you. Precious talismans are needed Alex Musgrave to protect us now more than ever. (The Silver Fox) for Talismans Supplication and miracles, prayers and incantations for divine scented skin.

Odours of confrontation and beauty to comfort our precious souls.

Talismans Collezione Preziosa. Perfumes of fate and desire. “Every man is a divinity in disguise, a god playing the fool.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

A perfume of divination and tarotology. Le Mat, The Fool and Journeyman. Chance, enigma and propulsion. End and beginning. A card of 0 and XXII. A powerful icon of the Major Arcana, cards of symbols and numbers that portend future and fate. We must turn over cards and accept fate, walk forward into new futures, lives and loves. We may not have all the tools for survival, but we have hope and defiance. Le Mat explodes with sweet earth, heaven-sent patchouli anchoring a sensual chypré homage of Rosa Centifolia from Grasse, the strange complexities of immortelle, cloves, black pepper and Egyptian geranium. A talisman of balsamic blessed absolution that will boldly defend mind and body.

------FRAGRANCE NOTES Nutmeg, Black Pepper, Cloves, Egyptian Geranium, Rosa Centifolia from Grasse, Indonesian Patchouli, Cashmere wood, Spanish Immortelle ------NOSE Anne-Sophie Behaghel

------EXTRAIT DE PARFUM 25% 100ML/ 3.4 FL OZ NATURAL SPRAY ------250,00 Euro “All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream” From ‘A Dream Within a Dream’ by Edgar Allen Poe

A visionary scent, pulled from the unconscious mind via an ocean of gauzy marine dreams. Sogno Reale brims with brine-leather, sea urchins and electrified air. Calm sea meets volcanic fumes, woods and a sun-bright shock of lemon and bergamot. Warm rum and sweet, earthen patchouli swirl protectively around gentle tuberose and a quiet dose of hyraceum, warming its fur in the Mediterranean sun. Sogno Reale is balm for the soul; a talisman dreamed into existence, the unconscious mind made extraordinary perfumed flesh.

------FRAGRANCE NOTES Lemon, Bergamot, Marine/Iodine accords, Tuberose, Patchouli, Volcanic Olibanum, Hyraceum, Rum, Sandalwood, Styrax, Amber woods. ------NOSE Amélie Bourgeois

------EXTRAIT DE PARFUM 25% 100ML/ 3.4 FL OZ NATURAL SPRAY ------250,00 Euro “I fly In an intergalactic space Where gods are dancing...’” From ‘Neptune’s Flight’ by Marco Pesatori, astrologer & poet

Nettuno is a perfume of exquisite beauty, a celestial mirror of the soul; invoking the symbolism and astrological forces of distant. Neptune’s blue spinning majesty. A talisman of duality, compassion and transformation, a sensual symbol of astral guidance. Nettuno is a frozen rose floating amid nebulous musks, blue ginger, translucent blooms and soft embracing leather. Powdered particles of iris drift like ash over this perfumed flight of fate and stellar protection. Such a unique talisman, falling like rose dust to protect and guide us.

------FRAGRANCE NOTES Aqueous flower (cyclamen), Pink Pepper, Blue Ginger, Nutmeg, Complex Rose Accord, Modern Leather Accord, Haitian Vetiver, Carrot Seeds, Iris, Benzoin, Rum, White Musks. ------NOSE Amélie Bourgeois

------EXTRAIT DE PARFUM 25% 100ML/ 3.4 FL OZ NATURAL SPRAY ------250,00 Euro And as the fiery Sirius alters hue, And bickers into red and emerald… (From ‘The Princess’ by Alfred Lord Tennyson)

Where do we come from? Where are we going? What if Sirius has the answer. The brightest star in the known Universe has always been the focus of esoteric studies and those searching for answers to eternal questions. Sirio is the secret destination of an enchanted path. Another strength of gravity. Ascending from the Garden of Eden to the Stars above. ------Sirio evokes a journey from Earth to this mysterious paradise with the ambrosial booziness of forbidden fruits. The unexpected addition of White Musk in the head notes makes the perfume feel more full-bodied while a protective woody-gourmand base prolongs the mysterious carnal essence of Sirio.

------FRAGRANCE NOTES Rhubarb, Apple, White Musk, Rose, Peony, Plum Guaiac, Cashmeran, Oud, Vanilla, Amber Wood ------NOSE Amelie Bourgeois (Flair Paris)

------EXTRAIT DE PARFUM 25% 100ML/ 3.4 FL OZ NATURAL SPRAY ------250,00 Euro

“When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, ‘I used everything you gave me’.” Erma Bombeck (21st February 1927 – 22 April 1996) ------One day I dropped some mint leaves into a vase of my roses. The voracious mint surrounded and embraced the roses, guarding and protecting them. Now they grow beautiful and lush, without our help and without weaknesses. That’s when I started thinking about the smell of Talent. The talent we need to live. Mint and Roses. This is the theme of the sixth Talisman. pr Stefania Squeglia

SUPER EXTRAIT DE PARFUM 30% 100ml/ 3.4 fl OZ Natural Spray ------FRAGRANCE NOTES Spearmint, aldehyde C12 MNA (aliphatic aldehyde, open/broken chain not benzene ring, ambergris & incense nuances – diluting it enhances green and floral aspects) Rose oxide, rose absolute, geranium Indonesian patchouli, oakmoss, Virginia cedar ------PERFUMER Amélie Bourgeois and Camille Chamardin ------333,00 € “‘All the soarings of my mind begin in my blood’” Rainer Maria Rilke

Naples is urs sanguinium, City of Blood, protected by patron saint San Gennaro. Three times a year his dried blood is presented to the people, hungry for love and miracles. If this holy treasure liquefies all will be well with Naples. If not, the earth will shake, skies blacken... misfortune might descend. This supernatural and holy liquefaction is a talisman of metamorphosis and protection. OSANG is inspired by this extraordinary annual miracle, a scent of viscous beauty, blood rising, shifting from inertia to bubbling resurrection. A miracle of love. A perfumed celebration of saints and superstitions, centred around a ravenous fenugreek absolute note lavished with singed pyrazines, sacrificial myrrh and mournful molten honey poured over everything like amber rain. Meadow blooms, sticky dark resins, pungent balms and ashen clouds of iris swirl like dramatic weather. The miracle slowly unfolds from sunlit flowers through a sea of honey and glorious fenugreek, stirring our hunger into clouds of swirling darkness, golden hope and cindered skies. A perfume of darkness that slowly explodes into delirious, mysterious light, a Talisman of blood, seething with shadows and burning magic. OSANG. A miracle of scented love. An indelible prayer for skin.

------FRAGRANCE NOTES Heliotrope, honey, meadow flowers & fenugreek absolute, Sichuan pepper, nutmeg, labdanum, iris, myrrh, benzoin & styrax, sandalwood, amber, oud, incense, Peru balsam, animalic musks. ------NOSE Stefania Squeglia Vision

------EXTRAIT DE PARFUM 35% 100ML/ 3.4 FL OZ NATURAL SPRAY ------350,00 Euro “Thus the superior man consolidates his fate By making his position correct.” 50, Ting. The crucible. I Ching. Athanor is the perfume of mystique, magic and real change. The essence of our life.

This extreme Talismans is tracing its roots back to the alchemical experiments and efforts made since the Middle Ages. Athanor comes with a unique sculpture* that symbolises the transformation and blending of elements made possible by fire at extreme temperatures in the crucible. Smell the sulphur from the process! Underneath and inside you find a fusion of ethics and aesthetics to enhance the beauty of your personality. A blend of flowers and fumencens will surround you. The result is a smell of pleasure and intoxication made by the best oils of highest concentration. Let Athanor penetrate your body and soul, and you will spread gold to the world like the nugget on the bottom of the bottle. Reach your core and light inside and share.

------HEAD NOTES OLFACTIVE VISION Sulphur, Cassis, Saffran Stefania Squeglia ------NOSE HEART NOTES Iris, Cypriol, Fumencens Luca Maffei ------BASE NOTES EXTRAIT DE PARFUM 35% Cashmeran, Guaiac wood, 100ML/ 3.4 FL OZ NATURAL SPRAY Vetiver Java, Black amber ------450,00 Euro

*The Athanor is curved, crafted and made possible by the Goldsmith and Sculptor Nibo for Mendittorosa. LAV - DALLA PARTE DEGLI ANIMALI

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