Florilegium Extra Virgo 2025

After receiving a sample and testing it around for over a month, I caved and bought a full bottle! My first impressions when I received it were "this is so weird" but I kept smelling it and smelling it and smelling... you get the point, it was a challenge but it was addicting! This was maybe my first time going from "what the hell" to full buy.
I fell in love with it, started associating it more and more to the flowers I smelled in the streets while walking my dog. To flowers in the heat of summer, just pulsating with their sweetness and at the same time their plant bitterness. It was a wonderful nostalgic experience and it became a ritual to spritz some Florilegium before a walk.
I haven't worn it much in my daily casual life, much less for work. I didn't wear it because it felt so sacred to me, I needed to save every drop for those moments by myself. Now that I have a full bottle in my hands, I don't know what's next. It's a challenging fragrance, don't be fooled! It's not a crowd pleaser but I think if someone is interested in this kinds of perfumes, that's not a deterrent at all.
Florilegium feels primal and ancient. I can't stop but think of my conceptions Ancient Rome and Greece festivities and nature, although they didn't even have tuberose back then. It's not for everyone for sure but it's such a personal fragrance to me.
Now after testing all of Extra Virgo's collection, my eyes are set for a full bottle of Vesta next!

Florilegium by Extra Virgo is not simply a "pretty" white floral, instead it is a complex, artistic, and highly evocative extrait de parfum that does justice to its collection title “Les Fleurs du Mal” (The Flowers of Evil).
Florilegium is a lush and “nocturnal” expression of Tuberose, where the Tuberose is the clear star of the show, preparing in a realistic, lush, and multi-faceted experience, not simply creamy, but green and rich too.
What sets Florilegium apart is its depth and the “forbidden” or “sinful” character of its core.

Sharp balm, like Tiger Balm, but with more sweetness, a floral note that makes everything seem very clean, a lady's clean bedroom, but somehow wicked, a wicked clean bedroom, but not sleepy, a bedroom in the morning where Tiger Balm has been rubbed onto bodies and now this clean room is darkly and fiercely brought to life by a dirty morning ritual.