Adi Ale Van - Coliva Gourmand Potion

Coliva Gourmand Potion smells like a feast for the dead, white chocolate, coffee and bitter cacao over warm baked bread and butter, laced with licorice, cardamom and a thread of frankincense and bitter wormwood. Beneath the sweetness sit vanilla, tonka and a quiet animalic warmth.

The Story

Named for coliva, the wheat-and-honey dish served at Romanian memorials, Adi Ale Van's gourmand turns mourning into something edible and strange: comforting bread and cocoa shadowed by incense, bitter herbs and skin-like musk. It is dessert with a memory of the funeral table.

The Nose

Composed by Giovanni Festa for Adi Ale Van, also behind Mendittorosa Osang, Deceneu - Getic Potion and Odaie - Vintage Potion.

Fragrance Character

It opens rich and edible, chocolate, roasted coffee and cacao, before bread, butter and cedar give it the warmth of a kitchen. Iris and cypriol add a cool, rooty grey; olibanum and wormwood keep the sweetness from cloying; and a base of vanilla, tonka, amber and musk closes it like the last warm bite.

Best Worn

A deep-winter evening gourmand, cold nights, candlelit rooms, and occasions where you want to smell of comfort and ceremony at once.

Why the Coliva Gourmand Potion Decant

A dark, conceptual gourmand built on natural materials, best tested on skin across a long evening before you commit.

Official Notes

White Chocolate · Coffee · Cacao Pod · Licorice · Cardamom · Olibanum · Wormwood · Bread · Cedar · Iris · Cypriol · Animal Notes · Vanilla · Tonka Bean · Butter · Amber · Labdanum · Musk

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