NOSTOS, where Achilles is more beautiful than Odysseus.
Nostos in Greek means Return: an impossible return, speaking to the heart and imagination, a return where space and time converge, where hope resides. But Nostos is also the root of the word nostalgia, that aching feeling that is the sorrow of Nostos. Perfume is the vehicle of this return we long for in vain. Like an intense and penetrating incense that could burn for three thousand years, the fragrance celebrates the Homeric epic of the most beautiful hero, whose wrath and its unpredictable consequences immortalized the Trojan War. The symbol of the desired and unrealized Nostos is Achilles. Not the Nostos of Odysseus and his Odyssey, but that of Achilles, the emblem of this fragrance, conceived by the gods and born from love—like the Trojan War.
Achilles is a complex hero with a dual essence: the divinity of his mother, the goddess Thetis, and the humanity of his father, Peleus. He embodies the beauty of duality. A powerful warrior with deep musk notes and the extreme virility of oud—without which Troy could not have been conquered—yet he also carries the delicate femininity of the rose. Achilles is the violence and the beauty of humanity’s extraordinary diversity.
Lance or shield: this fragrance embodies a dual nature, where the Greek hero seduces us with notes of jasmine and sandalwood. Art of war or love: the scent reaches perfection to challenge time, fight against our limited fate, and ultimately triumph over the merciless Greek gods through amber, saffron, and incense.
Achilles will never return home; he knows it and fights against his destiny, forever driven by the longing to return, haunted by this futile weapon wielded in vain against fate, by the nostalgia in which his humanity prevails.
The perfume of the most beautiful of Greek heroes, fragile and dangerous, forged by Hephaestus, the god of fire, to promise victory.
NOSTOS, where Achilles is more beautiful than Odysseus.
Nostos in Greek means Return: an impossible return, speaking to the heart and imagination, a return where space and time converge, where hope resides. But Nostos is also the root of the word nostalgia, that aching feeling that is the sorrow of Nostos. Perfume is the vehicle of this return we long for in vain. Like an intense and penetrating incense that could burn for three thousand years, the fragrance celebrates the Homeric epic of the most beautiful hero, whose wrath and its unpredictable consequences immortalized the Trojan War. The symbol of the desired and unrealized Nostos is Achilles. Not the Nostos of Odysseus and his Odyssey, but that of Achilles, the emblem of this fragrance, conceived by the gods and born from love—like the Trojan War.
Achilles is a complex hero with a dual essence: the divinity of his mother, the goddess Thetis, and the humanity of his father, Peleus. He embodies the beauty of duality. A powerful warrior with deep musk notes and the extreme virility of oud—without which Troy could not have been conquered—yet he also carries the delicate femininity of the rose. Achilles is the violence and the beauty of humanity’s extraordinary diversity.
Lance or shield: this fragrance embodies a dual nature, where the Greek hero seduces us with notes of jasmine and sandalwood. Art of war or love: the scent reaches perfection to challenge time, fight against our limited fate, and ultimately triumph over the merciless Greek gods through amber, saffron, and incense.
Achilles will never return home; he knows it and fights against his destiny, forever driven by the longing to return, haunted by this futile weapon wielded in vain against fate, by the nostalgia in which his humanity prevails.
The perfume of the most beautiful of Greek heroes, fragile and dangerous, forged by Hephaestus, the god of fire, to promise victory.