In this new episode of “Off With Nose,” Orto Parisi founder Alessandro Gualtieri presents Risvelium — a fragrance built around a radical personal experience, between the Amazon and shamanic practice.
From founding anger
Before Orto Parisi, there was Nasomatto — born, according to Alessandro Gualtieri himself, from a state of intense inner turmoil. It is this gradual realization, following his first project, that led him to build a new house: Orto Parisi.
The name carries several layers. Parisi is the surname of his mother and grandfather. It is also a reference to Parisis — “four Isis,” the Egyptian goddess — a coincidence Gualtieri himself describes as meaningful.
A journey to the Amazon as an act of creation
Risvelium was born from a stay in the Peruvian Amazon, dedicated to ayahuasca and other shamanic practices. These experiences, Alessandro Gualtieri explains, “open up other dimensions” — and it is from there that the fragrance draws its origin.
Water is at the center of the narrative: reconnection with nature, shamanic ritual, symbolic dimension. Gualtieri specifies that he used part of the water received during this journey for the first production of Risvelium. Whether seen as a symbolic gesture or not, it is an integral part of the fragrance’s genesis.
Risvelium as a manifesto
Behind the fragrance lies a conviction: the world has become fragmented, and reconnection with nature is a necessity. For Gualtieri, this reconnection begins with water — a raw material, a symbol, and a link between worlds.
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