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“Non è per i picciotti”
“Palermo Don Corleone” was composed during a Sicilian summer holiday. The predilection that Sicilians have for the Vanilla note reveals a very different psychology from what we imagine about them.
I smelled so many Vanilla accords in the wake of Sicilians men and women that I felt challenged to compose a Vanilla theme perfume, which I never attempted before.
Their love for this aroma is of course in line with their passion for pastries, sweets and chocolates, but it also denotes a very strong sentimental attachment to the mother, the need to be comforted and of tenderness.
I imagined a fragrance that would represent the Sicilian people, a perfume in which everything is exaggerated, starting with an exaggeration of Vanilla. I wanted a fragrance that would be extra-large also in sensuality, but having in it the hidden dark dangerous side of Sicily. To obtain this result I played Vanilla in an accord with Tuberose and Tobacco.
The result is a strong masculine perfume that paradoxically many women will like and easily wear, deeply sensual but at the same time serious. All the Sicilians to whom I showed it just love it, from this I know to have succeeded in celebrating their untamed spirit with this fragrance.
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Palermo Don Corleone – Das Parfum von Don Corleone
“Non è per i picciotti” (Nicht für die Untermänner!)
“Don Corleone” entstand während eines Sommerurlaubs auf Sizilien. Die bekannte Vorliebe der Sizilianer für Vanille enthüllt eine völlig andere Psychologie als das, was generell über sie gedacht wird.
Ich habe sowohl bei den sizilianischen Männern, wie auch bei den Frauen, so viele Varianten von Vanille-Duftnoten gerochen, dass ich es wie eine Herausforderung empfand, ein Parfüm mit Vanille zum Thema, zu gestalten, was ich nie zuvor versucht hatte.
Die Liebe der Sizilianer für das Vanille-Aroma ist natürlich voll in Einklang mit ihrer Leidenschaft für Gebäck, Süßigkeiten und Schokoladen, doch sie deutet auch auf eine sehr starke sentimentale Mutterbindung hin, mit einem starken Bedürfnis nach Zärtlichkeit und Trost.
Mir schwebte ein Parfüm vor, das den sizilianischen Charakter wiederspiegeln würde, ein Parfum, in dem alles übertrieben war, zu allererst Vanille. Ich wollte ein Duftnote, die bombastisch war, auch in ihrer Sinnlichkeit, in der aber auch untergründig versteckt die dunkle und gefährliche Seite der Sizilianischen Psyche mitschwang. Um dies zu erreichen, setzte ich Vanille in harmonisches Zusammenspiel mit Tuberose und Tabak.
Das Ergebnis ist ein starkes maskulines Parfüm, das paradoxerweise auch viele Frauen anspricht und leicht von ihnen getragen werden kann – zutiefst sinnlich, doch gleichzeitig seriös. Alle Sizilianer, denen ich es zu versuchen gab, liebten es einfach, und von daher verstehe ich, dass es mir mit diesem Parfüm gelungen war, den unbeugsamen sizilianischen Geist zu feiern.
theperfumechronicles –
I had already reviewed it on my website but I never grow tired of this one. Potent and explosive, dry and rustling, of leather and of spices. Tuberoses, exotic, and tobacco, narcotic.
A pinch of pepper, a punch of flowers – a vanilla sunny under a hot, fuming, Sicilian summer.
Temperamental gourmand hiding in the shade of yellow palazzos, Palermo don Corleone is alike Sicilia itself – a blend of cultures, of Northern and Southern. It is colourful and bronzed, it is stern like the Normans and mighty like Byzantium.
A vanilla at the crossroads of times and of realms, ageing in rum-soaked barrels, it reminds me of fleeting moments of my childhood in the Réunion isle where I beheld under a brazing sun, amidst the wet groves of mountainous jungles, a floor covered in vanilla beans roasting in the heat and perfuming the air…
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e. de sandre –
i have both bought this for myself and then introduced a friend to it. Palermo i have never visited, but this scent is Italia to me, and that includes the north, and the areas around Como as well as Rome. it is big, generous, but do not mistake and think it is ‘simple.’ This scent is deep.
Isaiah –
This is a WOW scent.
I didn’t have to open the vial that I was already seduced by its colour : ambery, liquory, with hints of orange that remind me of an old Tokaji. This is the first part of the trip and I although I never went to Sicily, I felt like I had. I could picture myself meandering in a long street going uphill, with ocre-painted houses, the smell of fried dough and gelati invading the air…
Then I opened the vial.
The WOW happened.
This is not your usual vanilla. This is wownilla. If anything, it’s not a vanilla at all. Or actually, it is THE vanilla as it should be known. It is dark, it is rich, it is exuberant, it is spicy. It is not at all what you would expect from a vanilla scent. Yes it feels warm and comforting, but it is not cloying, it isn’t really sweet at all. Rather, you get slapped in the face by too sensual a vanilla, strengthened by a strong tobacco note which acts as the perfect bridge between the vanilla and tuberose, both being round and sharp at the same time.
An intoxicating scent, absolutely unusual but one I can’t imagine being unnoticed or un-liked.
If you are into overly sweet vanillas and gourmand ones, beware : this is uncensored vanilla. You will get addicted. And you will definitely never, ever, go back…
Brunomario –
Wow, what a great scent.
The name goes very well with this fragrance. I smell the tobacco and can only confirm that it is of the very best quality. I personally come from Sardinia, if the scent is to represent the Sicilian soul, you can not explain it better. Especially the transition with this great vanilla and then the tuberose , Fantastic.
Thanks for the samples.
Greetings: Bruno
Francisco –
This is the best vanilla scent I have ever smelled.
Women love it and it’s perfectly unisex. Deep, complex and sweet.
I like it very much.
Donald Sprague –
In my opinion, this is the very best product made by anyone anywhere.
I have ordered this item multiple times and the quality is very consistent.
Five stars is way too low, 100 stars is about right.