Nasomatto Decants

Gualtieri’s wordless extraits. Short names, long shadows, small vials.

Nasomatto treats a bottle less like a fragrance and more like a substance you keep behind glass, dense extrait concentrations that lean animalic, resinous and a little disobedient. A Nasomatto walks into the room as a smell first and a perfume second.

Origin Amsterdam, Netherlands
Founded 2007
Known for Black Afgano, Baraonda
Here 4 fragrances

Nasomatto - Baraonda

From $20.00

Nasomatto - Black Afgano

From $20.00

Nasomatto - Micodelirio

From $20.00

Nasomatto - Narcotic V

From $20.00

Founded: 2007Launched with five perfumes
Founder: Alessandro Gualtieri
Concept: Extraits that each chase a single sensation

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The Nose from Italy

Alessandro Gualtieri was born in Italy and trained in historic perfumery at an institute in Germany, where an Italian expatriate he met at the local bar, the only one in town, taught him more. Years of work followed for Fendi, Versace and Helmut Lang, plus an in-house post at Diesel, before he set up Nasomatto in Amsterdam. He works under the name The Nose, makes olfactory art projects beside the perfumes and runs a second house, Orto Parisi.

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One feeling per bottle

Nasomatto is Italian for mad nose. Gualtieri holds that the senses drive what people do, so each perfume is built to push one state of mind, and each comes with a sentence or two and no note list. Black Afgano sets out to smell like the finest hashish, Narcotic V. chases the pull of female sexual power, Baraonda aims at a raw taste sensation and Micodelirio at a natural, vital delirium.

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Extrait in a stacked bottle

Everything is made at extrait strength and sold in 30 ml bottles, stacked architectural shapes topped with wooden caps. The same perfumes also come as 4 ml concentrated oils, which open more slowly on skin and stay strong for longer. Natural raw materials mean the colour of the juice can shift from batch to batch. Some Black Afgano bottles now carry a logo-embossed pump, part of a packaging update made to fight counterfeits.