Viride

One of my favourite fragrance from Orto Parisi! Smells amazing, this masterpiece smells exactly like fragrance what i want to find for a long time and finally I found it. All i know about this fragrance before: Green fragrance, bring someone good memories or bring back to childhood. So i don't expect anything really good or gorgeous. HOW IT SMELLS: I will not say exactly, as I am writing from memory. Well, to begin with, it smells like a real forest, everything I wanted to find, as I already said. The forest composition is played beautifully, masculine, and most importantly realistically! Compared to my other favorite forest perfume, Orlo by Mendittrosa (you can view the review in the profile) it is more realistic, but not at all sweet. While Orlo smells like a sunny meadow of flowers in the middle of the forest with a little bitterness and an earthy undertone, Viride smells like the rawest forest after the rain,in which you can feel the wet leaves on the ground, the moss on a fallen rotten tree, to be honest, I didn't even believe that it was a perfume, and not the smell of the Slavic forests to which I am so used, I don't want to keep quiet about how this perfume changes over time, and I can't help but compare it to Orlo again. At the end, these two aromas become different, harsher, Orlo loses the sweet accords from the flowers, and becomes just a dry harsh, maybe tropical forest, and Viride becomes woody, dry, the shades of foliage and moss weaken a little, the smell of streams and wood shavings appears, it resembles a sawmill, and this does not mean that it becomes bad, it becomes niche and unique, maybe someone will find a note of medicine, somehow the perfume is very earthy and forest, so it can resemble various medicines that are made from the roots of certain plants, but it doesn't smell like medicine to me. If you're wondering what kind of tree it smells the most, I think it's a pine or any other conifer. Now I feel like I don't have enough words to describe the beauty of these two fragrances... But now I understand people who say that this perfume takes me back to my childhood, this perfume reminds me of my father's deserted village where I used to spend time. CONCLUSION: Worth every penny, the unique aroma, persistence and trail adheres to the standard of perfumes by Alessandro Gaultieri, one of the best perfumes for spring and from the entire Ortо Parisi line (for me it's either number 1 or number 2, only Seminalis competes with it). RATING: LONGEVITY:10/10 SILLAGE:10/10 (Idk for sure, it's based on the characteristics that were on the paper blotter) SCENT:10/10 Top notes: 10/10 Dry down: 9,5-10/10 (it smells only a little worse than at the beginning, maybe I'm trying to find negatives where there are none, and all because I'm sure that Orlo can't be that much worse (2 points)) OVERALL:10/10 Hmmm, it turns out that Viride is better than Orlo, seriously, I wouldn’t say so, Orlo is certainly a little worse, but not by that much, not by such a margin of 2 points out of 10, especially since I can’t say exactly about the train Viride. If I have something to add later, I will definitely write about it.

First of all I must say that I am in love with this scent, and somehow that makes it far more difficult than usual to describe - as though the associations and emotions cloud my nose. I'm happy with the performance overall, but I had hoped it would have a similar extreme longevity as others by Alessandro Gualtieri (Nasomatto Pardon for an example of one I've tried) but on me it sits about 3-4 hours (edit: my partner says he can still smell it on me after 6 hours, but he can't really make out notes only that I am wearing a scent). Initial spray brings a wave of established bohemian garden, not a flower garden but a verdant and cooly humid earthen space. The greenness is fairly mossy which I love, and it reads perfectly unisex to my taste. It evokes a slightly fantastical image of a classic european forest growing inside of a warm wooden house where you sit by the fire with someone you love. After 30 or so minutes of unfolding wandering scent it stabilises into something new that reminds me of tree bark after rain, folded jumpers in hardwood drawers, but not straight up resinous woods. There's a light hint of animalic in the dry down, but nothing at all offensive to my taste. When it blends with my skin I sometimes think I'm smelling the tiniest bit of spice tempered by dirt, and at other times a faded hint of petrichor as though travelled through the halls of an old building. Suffice to say that I don't agree that it's just a linear, old fashioned, cookie cutter fougere as some negative reviews seem to find it. It's a fougere with a few secrets hidden down the garden path, and I'm happily chasing their shadows. Edit: Having now received my FB, I have to add that the packaging and presentation, bottle, and cap, are all of absolutely exceptional quality. I feel that Gaultieri strives to invite a sort of reverence or ritualism to our engagement with the application of scent here, and that it succeeds at least in the unboxing. I am hesitant to dispose of the box! But I will be strong, as I must not become the type whose sentimentality fills rooms from floor to ceiling. This scent reminds me of that, with its hay-harvest un-soapy cleanness (not that it isn't quite a dirty smell at points, but there is a herbal cleanness that evokes unpolluted nature and organic agriculture) - as though whispering from my wrist "you don't need clutter". The more fragrances I smell, the more I love this. It's unique. It's perfect. Also, it has better longevity than I first thought, in that after it's faded away I ocassionally get a brief delicious whiff of it when moving my arms.

The night is thick with the scent of damp earth and growing things. You find yourself walking through an ancient forest, the kind where the trees stretch up so high they seem to touch the stars, their canopies filtering the light of the moon into soft beams. The air is cool, refreshing, and heavy with the richness of nature, the ground beneath your boots spongy with moss and pine needles. You wear a Berluti suede jacket, its deep brown hue blending with the earth, while your boots move soundlessly, the quiet crunch of leaves beneath you the only sign of your passage. There is a stillness, a reverence to the forest, as though time itself pauses to allow you to take it all in. The fragrance that clings to your skin is Viride by Orto Parisi—a scent that mirrors the forest itself, both fresh and ancient, green and raw. It opens with the sharp bite of green notes—clary sage and basil—like the crisp air you inhale, the first touch of nature as you wander deeper into the woods. The scent is alive, effervescent, like new growth breaking through the earth after the first rain. There’s an earthiness, a warmth to the fragrance, as the fresh green notes start to settle into the heart of the fragrance, where moss and cedarwood begin to emerge, grounding the scent in the deep, woody richness of the forest floor. As the fragrance deepens, it takes on a darker, almost animalic quality. The musk and patchouli combine with the raw greenness to evoke the deeper, wilder parts of nature—the uncharted, untamed places that lie beneath the surface. It’s not just a fragrance of nature’s surface beauty, but of its wild, mysterious heart, the scent of leaves, wet bark, and earth, rich with life and secrets. Viride is a fragrance that calls you to explore the unexplored, to embrace the beauty in the raw, untouched parts of the world. It is the scent of a man who feels at home in the wild, who is grounded in nature’s power and mystery. A fragrance of contrasts, it balances freshness and depth, lightness and darkness, the human and the untamed. It is a journey into the very heart of nature, one that lingers, a whisper of the forest, long after you’ve left it behind.

That's first and foremost patchouli. It's a bit earthy, a bit chocolaty (not much), but first and foremost green and fresh. It’s not musty, not punchy, very clean green woody and soily, bitter. There's also some eucalyptus-like freshness in the opening (delicate, not aggressive) and the lots of the minty aspects of patchouli. I'm surprised, I’d bet my hand on it that there’s incense in here - a lot of it (or maybe it comes from cade oil?). The base is overdosed on cedar/pine/juniper and palo santo notes (and, of course, the patchouli). Don’t listen to the ‘minimalist approach’. This is very complex, they just have untrained noses. I’ll add sage, rosemary, even some oud to the mix, a bit of animalics, some leather, thyme, tonka, star anise, geranium, carnation, clove, Vetiver, oak moss, tarragon - and I’m sure there’s more, I’m just forgetting something or can’t distinguish it. This does smell A BIT like those thin mint-filling pralines (After Eight these are called in my country) especially in the opening before it gets incensed and ever more soily bitter. This very slightly reminds me of Imaginary Authors' Cape Heartache, except the fact that there's no fruit in here, and Cape Heartache has lots of strawberry. It's not the same, but if you forget the fruit and wait an hour these are in the same ballpark. Not office safe, not everyone likes patchouli. To me that's a spring, early autumn fragrance, daytime. Will last you a whole day, but the projection becomes moderate in about 5 hours. Now, a very personal note - this screams clean, bitter, green masculinity. Of course, nobody can tell you what you can, or cannot wear but me personally? I know not a single woman that fits this fragrance’s profile. This is a very green woody Fougere.

Viride – Orto Parisi I reached for Viride because I read: "green, herbal, forest-like, wild." And yes, I got exactly what I wanted. Only in the version: an abandoned garden after the apocalypse. The first hit smells as if someone took freshly cut grass from an old cemetery, mixed it with wormwood, mugwort, and lavender, then threw it all into a damp cellar where nobody has opened a window for twenty years. After an hour it becomes genuinely beautiful — a dense, feral, obscene forest. As if you walked deep into a spruce forest after rain, where the soil is wet, needles stab your ankles, and the air smells of rotting leaves, old tobacco, and the musk of a rutting stag who has just finished ruining everyone's peace. In the base, that classic Orto Parisi green dirt appears: wet bark mixed with the sweat of a man who spent all day turning soil with his bare hands, then wiped himself with nettles and sage. The whole thing smells like a grandfather's abandoned garden after nature finally took legal ownership: everything has overgrown, everything is rotting, everything reeks of life. There are no flowers here, no powder, no "fresh laundry." This is raw, bitter, green nature with its teeth bared. Longevity? Like an absinthe hangover. On skin it sits for twelve to fourteen hours. On clothes — until the next wash. On the psyche — for life. Marketing says "Aromatic green fragrance." They should have written "For people who want to smell like a wild forest after animal orgies and botanical decomposition." Rating: 10/10 This is not perfume. This is wet, bitter, green poetry about how nature would absolutely destroy us all if it had thumbs. I will buy another bottle as soon as I finish therapy and bury the last polite remains of my femininity.

Kupiłam Viride, bo przeczytałam „zielone, ziołowe, leśne, dzikie”. No i kurwa... dostałam dokładnie to, czego chciałam. Tylko w wersji „porzucony ogród po apokalipsie”. Pierwsze uderzenie pachnie jakby ktoś wziął świeżo skoszoną trawę z cmentarza, zmieszał ją z piołunem, bylicą i lawendą, a potem wrzucił to wszystko do starej, wilgotnej piwnicy, w której od 20 lat nikt nie otwierał okna. Po godzinie robi się naprawdę pięknie – pachnie jak gęsty, dziki chuj w lesie. Jakbyś weszła głęboko w świerkowy las po deszczu, gdzie ziemia jest mokra, igły kłują cię w kostki, a w powietrzu unosi się zapach gnijących liści, starego tytoniu i piżma jakiegoś napalonego samca jelenia, który właśnie skończył rykowisko. W bazie pojawia się ten charakterystyczny „zielony brud” Orto Parisi – jakby ktoś zmieszał mokrą korę drzewa z potem faceta, który cały dzień orał pole gołymi rękami, a potem wytarł się w garść pokrzyw i szałwii. Całość pachnie jak opuszczony ogród dziadka, w którym natura wzięła sprawy w swoje ręce: wszystko zarosło, wszystko gnije, wszystko śmierdzi życiem. Nie ma tu kwiatków, pudru ani „świeżości prania”. Jest surowa, gorzka, zielona pizda natury. Trwałość? Jak kac po absyncie. Na skórze siedzi 12–14 godzin. Na ubraniu – do następnego prania. Na psychice – do końca życia. Projektanci napisali „aromatyczny, zielony zapach”. Powinni napisać szczerze: „Dla ludzi, którzy lubią pachnieć jak dziki las po orgii zwierząt i rozkładzie roślinności.” Ocena: 10/10 To nie jest perfumy. To jest zielona, mokra, gorzka poezja o tym, jak natura przejebałaby nas wszystkich, gdyby tylko mogła. Kupię drugą butelkę, jak tylko skończę terapię i pogrzeb resztek mojej damskości.

A few months ago when i tried a sample of this i wasnt impressed and i kept the sample bottle...Then i tried Halston Z-14,which i thought was just alright but very one dimensional and boring to use more than a few times...I started reading reviews about Viride and i was more intrigued...Smelled the sample at home again and decided to - i gotta be honest,impulsively buy a full bottle and it was worth it..This is one of the tamest Orto Parisi/Nasomatto fragrances i tried,but you must try it on skin...I might be insane and anosmic but now after trying this on paper it smells exactly like Phillip Plein No Limits..On skin it starts very green and sharp,reminds of a healing/cooling gel you would apply after being sore from training..I also get light rosemary in the background mixed with alot of spicy herbs..This gives me a similar vibe like Encre Noir but with way more herbs and plants...If EN is a church in a forest, Viride is the actual dark and deep forest with no sweetness...Around 30 minutes in it dries down to a classy green Halston (obviously 50x better)....Very light compared to other OP scents so i go around 5-6 sprays with this one,aiming a few to really get on my shirt...Lasts around 6 hours on skin with heavy projection first 2 hours and 12+ hours on clothes...Bottle is beatiful and the copper cap leaves a smell on your fingers...Really original niche feel so just own it..Any ocassion is good but the perfect would be a warm summer day while you drive to the forest away from town to chill with friends..You can use it any season,it doesnt bite back like the rest of the line so you can overspray to boost longevity...I highly recommend

Certainly! Viride by Orto Parisi is one of the most emblematic creations of Alessandro Gualtieri (the "The Nose" behind Nasomatto). If you are looking for a perfume that embodies the concept of primordial green, . The Green you don't expect, not the green of classic "green" perfumes that are fresh, light or smell like cut grass from a suburban garden. Viride is wild, profound and almost ancestral. The name itself derives from Latin and recalls not only the color, but the vital force of nature. The beginning is bitter and balsamic. Absinthe and Artemisia create an almost "medicinal" and pungent aromatic sensation, only partially balanced by Lavender, which here is not relaxing but intense and earthy. The heart is glorious, the declared Jasmine is almost imperceptible as a single flower; rather, it serves to give a slightly creamy and "alive" texture to the heart of the fragrance, preventing it from becoming too dry. The Bottom, the secret forest: This is where Viride shines. The mix of Fir, Juniper and Cedar evokes the smell of a humid coniferous forest. Tobacco and Musk add a warm, masculine and slightly smoky base that guarantees monumental durability. Viride is a perfume for those who want to connect with their most instinctive side. It is a fragrance that smells of roots, resinous woods and crushed leaves. It's not "pleasure" in the modern sense of the term: it's austere, serious, but incredibly fascinating and magnetic.

My second Orto Parisi fragrance besides Stercus. I bought this because my gf cannot stand heavy animalic smells and Viride seemed like the mosta pproachable, even Megamare and Bergamask are too strong for her and for most people as a acent profile so I thought this would be a great fragrance since I love Alessandro Gualtieri's work. I love it so far, it starts off with aromatic green notes that remind me of sage, lavander and mint perhaps. It truly evokes the image of greenery but the drydown is quite unexpected. The first time I wore it, I picked up some damp, earthy notes that reminded me of the fallen leaves which have been soaked in the wet soil, which makes sense since it was inspired by a Yemeni floral crown and greenery itself. However, today, I detected some sweet and musky notes that really intrigued me to be honest, I like how this fragrance shows something new everytime I wear it. It belongs in the fougere family imo, aromatic and green but also a bit heavier than most scents in this category. It is very masculine to my nose on my skin, this is a more mature scent but really makes you think of nature and earth. Really refreshing and wearable in the Orto Parisi line, it's not funky at all and it's very complex. I would highly recommend it if you love Gualtieri's style.

Alessandro Gualtieri fragrances never declare any of their notes, but we might as well do away with the Fragrantica notes list as it is so inaccurate and incomplete. At the opening, I detect something unmistakably green that quite literally tickles my brain. There's a slight rush I get from sniffing it up close, like when you sniff eucalyptus. Then, as it dries down, the patchouli takes center stage as a middle note, 100%. It gives the scent this sweetness, almost reminiscent of sweat from sun-kissed skin. It isn't funky, fecal, or body-odorish at all, but I find that it gives it a slightly animalic quality—making it lean even more masculine. It has exceptional longevity and projects moderately throughout, but as the top and middle notes fade with time, a musk and sandalwood base remain, giving this a wonderful, creamy quality after several hours. I have not smelled Dries Van Noten's "Santal Greenery," but I picture that to smell similar to what this smells like after four plus hours. On the note of fragrances that feel similar, the immediate throwback for me was Polo Green, my dad's signature scent back in the day. This was actually my first ever blind buy, and I was very pleasantly surprised. I love this.

This is top level perfumery, a niche florist salon in a bottle. It literally smells like if you walked into a flower shop where florists are creating awesome bouquets of flowers with the scent of snapped leaves and the smell of earth lingering around and filling the air. It filled a gap I was missing from my collection with a green scent that brings a vibe like the freshness and the birth of life in nature after winter ends and springtime comes. Performance is great for a green fragrance, though it's not a super fresh green scent, it's got much more depth than the usual freshies and it's very artistic, projects well beyond arms' length and lasts 12+ hours on my skin. Should be very careful of spraying as especially the opening can be quite overbearing, for an office day 1 spray on the chest under the shirt is just enough for all-day long. I love Gualtieri's imagination both when it comes to Nasomatto and Orto Parisi, this scent is quite easy to wear compared to his other creations and it's super inspiring. Fun fact is that I messed up an order and this arrived instead of Terroni I was planning to buy, but I love it so much that I decided to keep it and order Terroni later.

Viride by Orto Parisi Viride is a dark, foresty type of green. It’s not fresh-cut grass or crisp herbs, this is more like deep wilderness. The fragrance is extremely complex and has a raw, earthy character that makes it one of the most interesting scents I’ve tried. Out of the whole Orto Parisi line, this might be the most wearable, and honestly one of the best. The fir and juniper give it this sharp, almost metallic edge, while the wormwood really pushes the green aspect into overdrive. It paints a picture of a forest where nature has taken over—overgrown trees, thick moss, broken stone, and wet roots. There’s also a bit of tobacco buried in there, adding a smoky, slightly dirty vibe that gives it texture and weight. Now for the downside: the opening straight-up smells like piss. No way around it. It’s harsh and unpleasant for the first few minutes, but thankfully it settles into something a lot more enjoyable and complex as it dries down. Projection is moderate. It doesn’t shout, but people close to you will notice it. Longevity is solid, I get around 8 hours on skin. Rating: 9 / 10

I come from the interior of Canada so call me a little biased, for foresty evergreen scents but This fragrance is just gorgeous. In the opening your nestled deep in the undergrowth of a temperate rainforest, fog weaving through the trees and there's a strong smell of petrichore and damp cedars in the air. The dry down is where Viride really shines. In the dry down the raw scent of the forest gets beautifully balanced out from what I would guess is the tobacco and lavender. It softens the dark and almost somber tone of the forest floor into a beautifully composed symphony of sweet yet slightly smokey evergreen. Theres something atmospheric about it -it feels like your alone in the temperate rainforests of Canada. Quiet, a little mysterious, a little somber and when the rain passes and the sun breaches the forest canopy, its sweet. Others my not like this scent but for me its less of a scent and more of a place I recognize, my home.

Pardon + Absinth = Viride I didn't understand why people compared this to Pardon until now, this has that same medicinal, almost aniseed-like sweetness from Pardon with Absinth's fresh greenery on top, creating an extremely nice fougère in the process. Brutus focuses on the chocolatey patchouli, this instead is much greener and aromatic, more shaving cream-like. Very clean, refreshing, masculine but not too mature and definitely not outdated. I'd love to own this but I got tired of Pardon's medicinal sweetness so I'd most likely get tired of this as well, I might get a 5 ml decant of this and I'll be sorted. This is also my new favorite from the Orto Parisi line. Performance is really decent in general. Moderate to strong projection, moderate sillage you'll smell for a few hours without a problem. Longevity is an easy 8+ hours.

Very reminiscent of pardon but goes into a fresher green minty direction. This constantly plays between warm spices like clove and fresh spices in the dr-down. Deep into the base it’s mainly a bubblegum-patchouli accord like pardon but with the addition of Ortos signature musky base and some additional green notes. Overall I find it to be spicy-green take on patchouli and don’t see it as a fougere in the slightest. This honestly made me quite miss my old bottle of pardon that I got rid of because performance issues that ironically I find this to be very similar in the sillage department. Despite that I love pardon and this equally. My main criticism with this fragrance if I had one is that this plays it almost too safe. I’d love the musk accord and to be ramped up

Big love. Very verdant and warm and a little bitter/herbaceous. Does remind me of a forest. Smells sorta similar to Polo Green but this has a lot more sweetness from the tobacco and lavender, also much stronger. I haven’t smelled Bracken Man so I can’t compare to that one. To my nose the tobacco is the major player besides the green notes which all kinda blend together. Definitely masculine leaning but I think a lady could pull this off if it was her thing. I kinda dislike most feminine frags anyways. Projection is potent, from my bottle two sprays is more than enough, any more would be overwhelming and choke out a room. I don’t think I’d wear this to the office or a wedding, but this would be great for an outdoor bbq, camp out, or similar thing.

I hate most green fragrances, something about how they are perfumed.... yuck. However, this one really stands out, and I honestly enjoy it! This is the first one I have tried from the brand, and it did not disappoint. Really piney, earthy and fresh. Reminds me of being out in the woods on a early fall afternoon, surrounded by pine trees, with debris everywhere on the ground. Now here writing about it, smelling the strip, I need to pick this up. Really reminds me of my childhood, being outdoors and just messing around with friend, a really calming fragrance, and that is what I love about perfumery. One single bottle can bring back hundreds of memories. Lasts really well and projects nicely as well. 8.7/10

Just got my full bottle after testing a decant. I love this, I am a huge fan of fougere, green, aromatics, traditionally masculine scents, even though I am a woman. I was looking for a green scent suitable for colder days, not something fresh and cologne-type of perfume and Viride it is. Smells green but foresty, earthy and spicy, it is perfect for colder weather. I am surprised cloves are not listed as a note since I can smell them more than other notes such as jasmine. I enjoy the juniper as a base note, it goes well with the cedar and fir without smelling christmasy, but more like a dark damp forest. So not an usual green perfume, but a green aromatic masterpiece that can only be Orto Parisi.

Beautiful green scent. Start of as very green/herbal and with what i can smell on my skin to be some sort of blackish peppar. It dries down to a more woody body scent. It projects just as i like it. first 2 hours it really strong almost potent like strong. But then becomes a body smell that last 8+ hours. The dry down is much more "comfy" and not so aggresive. People say its a old mans fragrance but i don't agree (a lil biased because i just got it) but i belive if you use it in the right situations and are able to wear it. i think that also younger men can wear it. lovely smell overall, really detailed and not like any other green herbal smell that i have tested out. 8.8/10

don't get lost in the marketing sauce. this fragrance is really wearable and super safe! smooth leafy-green top with a creamy musk backbone, lasts all day. it's moderate projection which means nobody will get offended, making it wearable in enclosed spaces and at work - unlike some other nasomatto/orto parisi scents! works in all seasons; spring summer really brings out the fresh greenness of it, while fall winter accentuates more of those sweet musky base notes. as with all of his scents, alessandro gualtieri did a great job making an all-around likeable fragrance, sprinkling in some of that marketing magic to make it seem way more difficult than it really is!