From its name, you’d think Nasomatto Nuda was a skin scent. From the ultra-cool and slightly irritating Nasomatto website (hint: turn off your speakers), you’d suspect Nuda was assertive and on the rock and roll side of Comme des Garçon’s indie style. What you wouldn’t know were the notes, since Nasomatto doesn’t list them, instead preferring to toss out thoughts about the perfume such as “the unexpected tranquility of giving up oneself without concern for boundary”, “hazy intuition of a depth that undoes distance”, and a “quest to find a vanishing point in nature, the translucence of our senses, nude desire”.

Nuda isn’t a skin scent or a “bad boy” fragrance but is a whopping indolic jasmine. Nasomatto nose Alessandro Gualtieri is frank about basing his fragrances partly on his experiences with drugs (see the Nasomatto manifesto), but in the case of Nuda, I’d say the PR copy is more likely than the fragrance to be the result of a trip. As loud as Nuda is at first, in the end it’s elegant and calm — almost ladylike…

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