Top Notes 
Lemon
Italian citron
Lime
Vervain CO2
Heart Notes 
Ginger
Pink pepper CO2
Sichuan pepper
Cardamom
Base Notes 
Musk
Iris
Oakmoss
03/25/2025
Longevity
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Glorious but Fleeting Scent
Here’s a romanticized rendition of what happens each time I apply Cedro di Diamante:
*spray spray spray*: “this is undoubtedly my favorite citrus scent ever. Wowee, do I feel great.”
*30 minutes later*: “Where have you gone? You’re breaking my heart. Each. Single. Time. Why, oh, why!” (Insert here the meme of the guy with sand in his hand in despair).
Granted, I am overly dramatic, but you get my point.
I was watching an interview with Luca Maffei on the YouTube channel “Profumi di Nicchia by 50ml” (link below). As it is in Italian without English subtitles, I am synthesizing below what Luca Maffei has to say about his creation.
At Esxence in Milan, Gian Luca Perris and Luca Maffei – both passionate about finding exquisite raw materials – met with a company expert in citruses: Capua. They smelled Bergamot (extracted with the traditional method called “spugna”), mandarins, oranges, and citron (also called cedrate, and today’s star, the “cedro” in Italian). Every one of these citruses ended up in a fragrance in the Perris line! Luca Maffei was taken aback by their cedrate because of its green and fizzy aspects, which he described as thirst quenching, like drinking a cold and carbonated drink in summer. He was also surprised by how it remains soft, enveloping, with aspects of the leaf and wood of the tree itself.
Luca decided to go for an overdose of the raw material, and to elevate it by pairing it with one of his favorite aroma chemicals, namely Cashmeran. Luca explained how the woody, musky, and mineral aspects of Cashmeran helped to bring out the green and fizzy aspects more, while pushing forward the zesty softness of the citron.
I like Luca Maffei a lot: he has created some beautiful fragrances, and he’s a humble and laid back person. I couldn’t help but smile when he admitted that he rarely wears his own creations, but that he had worn Cedro di Diamante all summer long.
Now back to my appreciation of the scent: it feels like eating a cedrate sorbet. It reminds me of my childhood, eating lime Calippo. Look up a picture: it’s a sorbet in a paper sleeve that you have to squeeze out to eat. I was always so frustrated as a kid, because I wanted to eat the darn thing right away, but, being frozen, it was impossible to push out. Impatience when I was a child, and now!? Well, now I have the scent I love straight away, but I wish it would last longer. How the tables have turned…
The performance is abysmal, but I went ahead and bought a full bottle. Indeed, each time I spray it on, I am reminded of how great citruses in perfumes can be. It might not last very long, but perhaps we should stop trying to get citrus fragrances to last forever: the molecules contained in citrus oil are highly volatile, that’s how Mother Nature wanted it to be. And maybe, in an era where terms like projection, silage, and longevity are thrown around, and when our attention span has become so little because we always crave our dopamine hits, we should stop just for a moment, spray a fragrance we adore, and enjoy it while it lasts – being present with it, taking our time with it, rather than spraying it on and directly look for the one we’ll put on next. I’ll do the best I can to follow this mindset from now on.
Based on a full bottle acquired in September 2024.
Link to the interview in Italian: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rpClae_32I0&pp=ygULTHVjYSBtYWZmZWk%3D
*spray spray spray*: “this is undoubtedly my favorite citrus scent ever. Wowee, do I feel great.”
*30 minutes later*: “Where have you gone? You’re breaking my heart. Each. Single. Time. Why, oh, why!” (Insert here the meme of the guy with sand in his hand in despair).
Granted, I am overly dramatic, but you get my point.
I was watching an interview with Luca Maffei on the YouTube channel “Profumi di Nicchia by 50ml” (link below). As it is in Italian without English subtitles, I am synthesizing below what Luca Maffei has to say about his creation.
At Esxence in Milan, Gian Luca Perris and Luca Maffei – both passionate about finding exquisite raw materials – met with a company expert in citruses: Capua. They smelled Bergamot (extracted with the traditional method called “spugna”), mandarins, oranges, and citron (also called cedrate, and today’s star, the “cedro” in Italian). Every one of these citruses ended up in a fragrance in the Perris line! Luca Maffei was taken aback by their cedrate because of its green and fizzy aspects, which he described as thirst quenching, like drinking a cold and carbonated drink in summer. He was also surprised by how it remains soft, enveloping, with aspects of the leaf and wood of the tree itself.
Luca decided to go for an overdose of the raw material, and to elevate it by pairing it with one of his favorite aroma chemicals, namely Cashmeran. Luca explained how the woody, musky, and mineral aspects of Cashmeran helped to bring out the green and fizzy aspects more, while pushing forward the zesty softness of the citron.
I like Luca Maffei a lot: he has created some beautiful fragrances, and he’s a humble and laid back person. I couldn’t help but smile when he admitted that he rarely wears his own creations, but that he had worn Cedro di Diamante all summer long.
Now back to my appreciation of the scent: it feels like eating a cedrate sorbet. It reminds me of my childhood, eating lime Calippo. Look up a picture: it’s a sorbet in a paper sleeve that you have to squeeze out to eat. I was always so frustrated as a kid, because I wanted to eat the darn thing right away, but, being frozen, it was impossible to push out. Impatience when I was a child, and now!? Well, now I have the scent I love straight away, but I wish it would last longer. How the tables have turned…
The performance is abysmal, but I went ahead and bought a full bottle. Indeed, each time I spray it on, I am reminded of how great citruses in perfumes can be. It might not last very long, but perhaps we should stop trying to get citrus fragrances to last forever: the molecules contained in citrus oil are highly volatile, that’s how Mother Nature wanted it to be. And maybe, in an era where terms like projection, silage, and longevity are thrown around, and when our attention span has become so little because we always crave our dopamine hits, we should stop just for a moment, spray a fragrance we adore, and enjoy it while it lasts – being present with it, taking our time with it, rather than spraying it on and directly look for the one we’ll put on next. I’ll do the best I can to follow this mindset from now on.
Based on a full bottle acquired in September 2024.
Link to the interview in Italian: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rpClae_32I0&pp=ygULTHVjYSBtYWZmZWk%3D
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