Venetian red

Anna Zworykina Perfumes
85,00
Venetian Red is a perfume dedicated to this pigment. The pigment is a darker shade of scarlet, derived from nearly pure ferric oxide. Red like blood, warm, and totally enjoyable.
The perfume is a trip along dark narrow streets of a very old town, along slippery with slime and algae canal banks, along with low seashores often submerged, when the sea breeze is chilly-fresh, the stones are cold, and all the wood around is dried and tarred. The only tender thing on your way will be the red color of sudden rose petals added as a counterpoint.
Cold weather pulls forward the woody base, and the rose, as it should be, steps out only when it’s warm.

Seaweed, ambergris, nutmeg, neroli, rose, orange blossom, jasmine, oakmoss, patchouli, labdanum, angelica.

Collection: Fragrance: Gothic

Mood: Underworld

Mood: Moss

Mood: Depth

Mood: Strength

Reviews

Reviews

Venetian Red (Anna Zworykina) ★★★ oakmoss floral
How this throwback to dry, spicy, aldehydic chypres in the vein of Rochas’s Mystère is achievable with all natural materials is outright astonishing. Beautifully done retro can be a godsend when the real thing is no longer available. Enjoy it while you can.»
«Perfumes The Guide 2018» by Luca Turin, Tania Sanchez


Seaweed jasmine
Venetian Red is the second marine in AZ line up (the first one is Hue). Whereas Hue was the smellscape of an ancient Vietnam capital, this one is inspired by the city of Venice. It definitely shares the dark, marine character with Hue though: it opens similarly with a strong note of moist seaweed. This note accentuated by the vegetal, bitter green angelica (think Malle's French Lover) together with the salty ambergris gives it a clear dark marine character. My girlfriend said that this phase reminds her of the smell of a pile of wet grass in a composter. Which is fair enough.
Then it gets dustier and mossier thanks to labdanum+oakmoss and the jasmine comes out, dominating the scent after the initial strong seaweed opening. Its dirty qualities provide, together with ambergris, an interesting animalic counterpoint. All of that is served on a woodsy-smoky background giving reasonable depth to it. Excellent.
greyhound93


Just beautiful! Absolutly the best parfume in the world. It is not just liquid that smells nice- Venetian Red is adventure of scents in lovely drops, journey to another world
For me it is just like beeing in deep forest at the sea. I feel wind from ocean and fresh trees. I close my eyes and this parfum makes that I am there. Thank you so so much Anna Zworykina and thanks for so fast delvery and lovely kontakt <3<br>Joanna

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