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GUIDE TO FRAGRANCE NOTES OF PERFUMES (OLFACTORY PYRAMID)

To describe the scents perceived in a perfume, we use what are known as fragrance notes. Fragrance notes are divided into three classes – head notes, heart notes and base notes – on the basis of the “time development of the fragrances” over time, or on the basis of the time of evaporation or persistence of the various fragrances in the perfume. The combination of the three groups comprises the “olfactory pyramid”, which we use to describe a perfume. HEAD NOTES: also called “top notes”, are the first notes we perceive when we smell a perfume. They are fresh and light and with a weak persistence; they disappear, in fact, in very few minutes. The most common head notes are those of citrus, aromatic herbs…

KITON: HIGH-CLASS NEAPOLITAN TAILORING

At Arzano, just outside Naples, there’s a man who has kept the name of Neapolitan hand-crafted tailoring alive for almost 50 years, creating clothes, especially jackets and suits, that prestigious clients from all over the world wear with pride. We’re talking about Ciro Paone, a former cloth merchant and a man born into the business, a lover of beauty and of fine dressing; in 1968 he founded his company, Kiton, which has become synonymous with total elegance throughout the world of men’s fashion. From being a small workshop, Kiton is today a successful company with stores all over the world (Kiton is also present in New York, on 5th Avenue), but it still retains the concepts of craftsmanship and high quality that Ciro Paone has…

FAMOUS KNOTS: TIES BY E. MARINELLA

    E. Marinella has celebrated its first 100 years of history: a century of style, fashion and entrepreneurship which has brought ties “made in Naples” to the necks of the world’s powerful people. Ever since 1914, E. Marinella ties have been a symbol of elegance and style, an essential accessory for all those who love fine dressing. Luchino Visconti, in fact, ordered them in profusion, all with blue or red backgrounds and unlined like scarves, while Aristotle Onassis bought twelve at a time, strictly black to discourage his interlocutors so that he never let them see what mood he was in. Founded by Eugenio Marinella in a workshop just 20 metres square in Piazza Vittoria in Naples, the company – which currently has its…

BARBOUR, THE WATERPROOF JACKET THAT’S MADE HISTORY

“The best clothing for the worst weather”, were the words of an old advertising slogan for Barbour, the famous waxed jacket that has become a symbol of casual wear all over the world. Wherever you are, in fact – in the countryside for a walk or a hunting expedition, at the seaside or fishing at the lake or in the city doing shopping – if you’re wearing a Barbour you’ll always be judged to be people of good taste, attentive to style and respectful of traditions. We don’t know the name of the inventor of this ingenious garment, but the first news available to us refers to John Barbour, who founded “J. Barbour & Sons, Tailors and Drapers” in 1894 in South Shields, a town…

CESARE ATTOLINI: SIMBOLO DELLO STILE ITALIANO

  “Un buon sarto non è altro che un artigiano che fa vestiti imperfetti per corpi imperfetti”… Vincenzo Attolini sapeva bene di cosa parlava, perché fu lui negli anni ’30 a riscrivere le regole dell’eleganza maschile, inventando lo stile napoletano, cioè un modo particolare di intendere la sartorialità e interpretare l’eleganza. Si deve, infatti, al geniale sarto Vincenzo Attolini la creazione della famosa giacca “a mappina” (“straccio” in dialetto napoletano), con cui si contravveniva per la prima volta alle rigide regole imposte dallo stile inglese. L’idea di Vincenzo Attolini era di creare una giacca leggera, morbida e confortevole al pari di una camicia: tolse, così, le imbottiture, le spalline, la fodera e diede vita ad una giacca del tutto destrutturata, ma di grande vestibilità, che,…