With Forbidden Botanicals, Extra Virgo explores the less charted territories of plants and the olfactory world. The collection highlights ingredients often considered singular or unstable, giving them a central place in each composition.
Some creations rely on unexpected profiles. Monte Kush makes cultivated cannabis from the Montecucchi estate resonate.
Animal Café, an aphrodisiac potion composed of three rare coffee varieties, was a finalist at the 2023 Art and Olfaction Awards and unfolds the bitterness and roasted depth of the beans.
Sacred Tobacco, inspired by the smoke vaults used in rituals and as messages to the gods, restores tobacco leaves in their dry, resinous natural state, a symbol of purification and peace.
Finally, Cacao Ritual, a sacred plant from Central and South America once reserved for nobility and gods, celebrates the aphrodisiac, sweet, and open qualities of cacao.
Forbidden Botanicals thus maps a territory of olfactory curiosity, where the unexpected becomes a field of discovery.
