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As smooth and suave as the 19th century dandy who appears to be its inspiration, Nasomatto’s Pardon takes oud’s dark richness and nudges it — ever-so-gently, and probably while dabbing its forehead with a monogrammed handkerchief — into a surprisingly softer direction for the Italian niche line.
As seems fitting with the name’s connotations of polite society and gentility, Pardon tones down the line’s characteristic hard-core intensity. Unlike the brute, narcotic beauty of Black Afgano or the forward wildness of Duro, Pardon wants to persuade you of its masculine elegance and charm.
It opens with oud walking arm-in-arm with a faintly sweet floral note — whispered to be Magnolia — down a boulevard whose olfactory backdrop seems redolent of dark, unsweetened chocolate and Tonka bean with a hint of cinnamon and a sensual, smooth sandalwood. None of these scents jostle for attention, but rather reverberate among one another to create a fragrance at once seductive and refined.
Pardon, like the solarized image of the dandy in its ads, manages to evoke vintage while smelling supremely modern.
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Alessandro Gualtieri
Other fragrances by: Alessandro Gualtieri |
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