Red Potion The Merchant Of Venice 2019 Eau de Parfum

It seems like a work of art made of polished, cut marble in a dark, rich, white-veined red, and it compels me to take this beauty in my hand.
Soft and cool, just the right size for my small hand, it presents itself to me:
the new jewel of the glassblowers for the Murano Collection from "The Merchant of Venice":
the bottle for "Red Potion"!
Sensual joy flows through me: I love to touch beauty!

And once again, it seems understandable why Venice's Doges insisted on keeping these glass artists within their realm.
On the "island community" of Murano, in the middle of the lagoon, entire generations of craftsmen lived and worked.
Leaving the island or even the catchment area of the "Serenissima" was punishable by death.
They didn't allow their neighbors anything even back then!
That some brave souls managed to flee north and escape the clutches of Venice, and there, first in Brussels, brought their craftsmanship back to bloom, is simply in the nature of things:
The scent of freedom is too tempting!

A "red potion": what might this jewel of a bottle contain?
A potion that promises health, happiness, love, or simply "Whatever you wish!"?
My curiosity was piqued; I absolutely wanted to decipher this red secret.

Oranges: sun-ripened oranges from Morocco!
How I still remember: as a child, I especially loved them - their round shape, their sunny color, their sweet scent, and aromatic taste.
I also liked the word on the diamond-shaped label: "Maroc"!
I must have carried this love for the word within me even back then: Maroc oranges - it still sounds like a fairy tale from 1001 Nights and from childhood days!
How good and aromatic these oranges still are: they are no longer allowed to be traded in Europe.
(But I remain true to my standard: No politics and no religion in public areas!)

Thus, during the time of Venice's maritime supremacy, countless of these golden fruits were loaded onto sailing ships at the North African coast to embark on the journey across the Mediterranean.
Through their porous skin, they not only exhaled their fruity sweetness; no, they also drank in return the breath of the sea: salt, wind, sun, and the full maritime feeling of life were absorbed and stored by these oranges during their journey.
Upon landing on Italian coasts, they encountered scratchy-spicy rosemary: these oranges cuddled with it as intimately as with the honey-sweet honeysuckle. This cuddly course also left aromatic traces!
Curiously, they inhaled the always somewhat dusty, herbaceous-strong scent trails of immortelles.
Whole fields of these yellow-flowering perennials populate beaches and bays. The time when they will end their wild life as part of dried flower bouquets is still far away.
Thus, they were already highly fragrant when the city of sailors and traders appeared hazily on the horizon.
"La Serenissima": even the most curious orange could only take a brief glance at this magical city with its rich mix of peoples - it was immediately off to one of the warehouses: adieu, Mediterranean sun!
But before the sadness became too great: the large storages of the trading houses were full of many spices waiting to be discovered!
Boxes and chests made of carved, sensuously fragrant sandalwood - our oranges deeply inhaled this aroma: the pores of their skin greedily opened - more, please always more of that!
Sacks full of exotic tonka beans; what sweet-scented secrets could they reveal!
The well-traveled orange, initially just ripe, sweet, and juicy, was now soaked with the rich, full-bodied aroma of its adventurous journey.
From North Africa's sunny arts to Venice's trading houses - what a rich scent journey!

The company "The Merchant of Venice" has filled this adventure through the scents of the Mediterranean into Murano's beautiful glass bottles, making it accessible through spraying!
A sweet, spicy-aromatic orange scent that convincingly captures the charm of the sunny Mediterranean, its landscapes, and the mysterious filled storages of the trading houses!
"Red Potion" is, like its sibling scents, not a "crowd-pleaser of fragrances": it is very beautiful and skillfully and convincingly represents the philosophy of this brand.
Here, the merchants market in scents what they achieved in fragrant spices over land and sea.
The secret of this "red potion" is simply called "Gioia di Vivere" or joy of life!