Nobile 1942 – Rudis ml.75 – Extrait

Nobile 1942 – Rudis ml.75 – Extrait

Rudis is dedicated to a great virtue: strength. Rudis is the name of the trophy given to gladiators who won in the arena, a wooden sword, which was a tool but also a symbol of freedom: the gladiator was no longer a slave! To overcome his fear before entering the arena, the gladiator would stun himself with ciders made of dried fruit and marc. The perfume inspired by this object, therefore, must have been a play on contrasts that alternated simultaneously: strength and sweetness, battle and freedom, life and death, virility and weakness. The box is precious: only five craftsmen in the world are able to work leather in this way. Then, with a piece of wood of the same shape as the bottle used as a guide, they take the leather still wet and wrap the first side around the wood and bake it in the oven. The next step is to soak the skin again, following the same process for each side and for the curves that form the box. After this complicated process, you do not notice the seams of the points and the leather is as compact as a piece of wood. In the last step, it is lacquered and sliced before being processed internally. The box can only be closed in one way, depending on how it was cut.

Top notes: bergamot, dried fruit, fruity notes, wine.

Middle notes: rose, geranium, clove, saffron, cedarwood

Base notes: leather, patchouli, vetiver, incense, helichrysum, musk