Perfume Opus: Bergamote de G.Franco

“…Reggio in Calabria, nobody goes there by chance, except for perfumery professionals such as myself who come to assess the future bergamot crops, and improve their understanding of the characteristics of this fragrant plant’s unusual supply chain, which is concentrated in such a tiny area of Italy, around the strait of Messina.”

“… this fragrance creation uses two bergamot grades ensuring the focus on the chosen theme and also illustrating the olfactory richness of the vintages and of the extraction techniques used: early or late harvested crop, traditional sponge or ‘pelatrice’ extraction technique. The objective was to exalt the confectionary and floral facets of bergamot: in the heart of the fragrance, the mimosa flowers absolute from Morocco provides a creamy tone and improves longevity … the insolence of the Kashmiri saffron oleoresin, the leathery note definitively takes this perfume far from the Cologne classification in which it is traditionally confined to.”