In Part 3 of our Esxence Coverage, Lauryn Beer named  some of his Best of Show Fragrances  at Esxence 2018. New to me, and one of my favourite discoveries of the show, was Italian house Naso di Raza. Using a roster of talented perfumers, Naso di Raza presented six beautifully made fragrances such as Ravi (Cecile Zarokian), a leather and licorice tobacco, and Cher Tetu (Lucia Caserno), a lush saffron rose. Antonio Alessandria highlighted Gattopardo, an extraordinary olfactory mise en scene inspired by the great novel of Giuseppe di Lampedusa: the smell of a 19th-century Duke’s study; the wood panels, the expensive scotch whiskey in his glass, the almond and hazelnut pastry that features in the novel’s most famous scene. Laurent Mazzone (whose dramatic, modern Renaissance booth takes my award for best display) introduced their lovely floral Radikal line with three scents based around iris, lotus and water lily; and, of course, Jacques Fath’s reinterpretation of their legendary Iris Gris, L’Iris de Fath, with its cut-emerald vetiver and stunning, multifaceted orris. Fresh from LA is newcomer Regime des Fleurs, which debuted a gorgeous pittosporum perfume called Gold Leaves. If you’ve ever smelled full-blooming mock orange on a warm spring day, this is it in a bottle.

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