Orto Parisi

House Summary

Orto Parisi was launched in 2014 by Milan-born, Amsterdam-based perfumer Alessandro Gualtieri as a more introspective sister project to his better-known Nasomatto, founded in 2007 — both share the same atelier and sole perfumer, but deliberately different registers. Gualtieri has described the house's inspiration as childhood memories of his grandfather's garden, reframing the body as a kind of garden and body odour as something to work with rather than mask. That gives the mentality a deliberately raw, skin-close register rather than a room-filling one, with compositions built to interact directly with the wearer's own chemistry.