Mane' Atelier N°7 Erika Gualtieri

What does Mane’ smell like? Mane' is Erika's memories of her grandmother who was truly named that and lived in Calabria. Mane' is like an old 8mm film projected onto a faded pink and crumbling wall. It is old memories of her childhood and youth that she tells olfactorily in a very impressive way with Mane'. The story of the old and young women who lived there and shared their secrets with each other. Secrets that remained a mystery forever!

When you let Erika's memory film run, you see and feel the depth of these memories and the scents that accompany them. You see an old house standing not far from the beach. You open the door and enter the rooms. Smoke and ash linger in the air from the stove where the fire has gone out. The masonry is old and has become delicate and crumbling from the moisture coming from the sea. You open the windows to let air in. The scent of fresh hay piled up in the fields drying in the sultry midday heat flows in and mixes with the sweet scent of the sea from ambratic and algal notes of seaweed. You walk through the rooms, where very old oak furniture covered in leather is arranged, and open the door that leads to the courtyard behind the house. A small path leads through a garden where May roses bloom. The air is honey-sweet from the nectar of the acacias. Glasses full of honey made from it stand on a small garden table. You continue along the path through the garden to the end. And then you can see them! Under a magnificent magnolia tree sit the old and venerable women in their black dresses on chairs, weaving intricate chignons from their black-gray hair. They whisper secrets and stories into each other's ears while their still proud manes are finely, delicately, and carefully braided among themselves. Stories and secrets that no man must ever know! Little girls in white linen dresses run around them, laughing and playing, while the wind blows through the magnolias, carrying away the petals and their vanilla-sweet scent like an old, faded memory of distant years and deeds.

Mane'
is the scent of childhood, youth, and the maturity of a woman. Mane' is heavy and full of emotions. It is sweet like a beautiful memory and weighty like heavy secrets one carries. It is playful and at the same time deeply sensual and whisperingly erotic. Mane' is not a light perfume. It holds the concentrated power of emotions within. Mane' has fascinated me in a shocking way because you feel as if you are trapped in Erika's mind and memories, and a part of her. A perfume that is definitely made for women and should remain with them. As for longevity and sillage, Mane' is almost like an old memory. It is virtually imperishable and stays with you for a very long time. Extremely durable and intense. Mane' is an exceptionally atmospheric perfume that is far from the familiar. Profound, feminine, emotional, and disturbingly touching!