Carbonara

$170.00

The brief is Italian and specific: carbonara, the dish, transposed into a wearable accord. Black pepper is the dominant opening note, which is accurate, and carrot seed adds an unexpected earthy-sweet quality that mirrors the rendered guanciale without being literal. Cream arrives in the heart, soft and slightly fatty, and the smoked note that runs through the composition keeps it from reading as dessert. Guaiac wood gives the base a dry, slightly smoky texture, and amber provides the warmth that makes the whole construction coherent on skin rather than only in the bottle.

Why We Carry This

Carbonara is the boldest conceptual brief in the Lorenzo Pazzaglia range, and it mostly delivers. The pepper-cream-smoke accord is recognizable as a reference to the dish without being gimmicky. Among culinary-inspired fragrances, this is one of the more technically considered approaches we have encountered from an Italian indie house.