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Sand Shimmering in a Quiescent Desert at Midday
Linari FUOCO INFERNALE seems entirely unisex to me. True, there are no detectable flowers, and the composition is not at all sweet. It is also as arrid as a desert at high noon. Nonetheless, I find it eminently wearable and even strangely appealing. The various woody and oriental notes combined with incense (also woody and oriental!) and the myrtle conspire to create a mirage of sand. I would even go so far as to say hot sand.
The name FUOCO INFERNALE therefore fits this fragrance quite well. It is staid; it is stern. But it exerts something of a hypnotic effect upon me, like the afterimages created when one accidentally glances at the sun. Being impossible to purge from the mind, the images impose themselves upon it, forcing all attention to turn toward them. Perception appears to be taking place inside as the mind has suddenly acquired sight in the form of those inwardly reflected bright spots which will not leave by any act of will and only slowly fade away.
I can understand where some might find this perfume too barren, like sawdust, but because of the balsam and ambergris, which impart a metallic mesh texture, FUOCO INFERNALE seems to me more like sand shimmering in a quiescent desert at midday.
The name FUOCO INFERNALE therefore fits this fragrance quite well. It is staid; it is stern. But it exerts something of a hypnotic effect upon me, like the afterimages created when one accidentally glances at the sun. Being impossible to purge from the mind, the images impose themselves upon it, forcing all attention to turn toward them. Perception appears to be taking place inside as the mind has suddenly acquired sight in the form of those inwardly reflected bright spots which will not leave by any act of will and only slowly fade away.
I can understand where some might find this perfume too barren, like sawdust, but because of the balsam and ambergris, which impart a metallic mesh texture, FUOCO INFERNALE seems to me more like sand shimmering in a quiescent desert at midday.