DURO - NASOMATTO
🟤 Duro – Nasomatto 📆 Launch Year: 2007 💧 Concentration: Extrait de Parfum 🌿 Olfactive Family: Woody Chypre 👃 Perfumer: Alessandro Gualtieri 📂 GCMS Club Collection – Archives Gilbert Bendoni 📦 Number of Ingredients: 27
“The scent of power, not performance.” Duro is Gualtieri’s olfactory manifesto — a fragrance that doesn’t seduce, it asserts. Built on a dense, woody-musky chassis, this extrait is a monolithic structure of Iso E Super, cashmeran, patchouli, and synthetic woods, with just enough spice and resin to keep it from becoming pure abstraction.
This version, decoded from archival analysis, reveals a lean, high-impact formula: 27 ingredients, no filler, no softness. It’s not a pyramid — it’s a pillar.
🪵 What You Smell
- The Core: Iso E Super, cashmeran, ambrox super, karanal, vertofix, javanol → A dry, mineral wood accord that hums like a subwoofer. Clean, loud, and strangely intimate.
- The Earth: Patchouli, cypriol, labdanum, boisiris, sandalwood oil → Dark, rooty, and resinous — the chypre soul of the formula.
- The Musk: Habanolide, habanolide, ambrocenide, ambrinol, methyl ionones → A metallic skin trail, diffusive and persistent.
- The Flickers: Safranal, ethyl maltol, orange oil, elemi, beta ionone → Just enough heat and sweetness to keep the structure from collapsing into sterility.
🧠 The Signature
Duro isn’t about evolution — it’s about presence. It opens loud and stays loud, with a drydown that feels like leatherless leather, oudless oud, and masculinity without cliché.
This is Gualtieri’s idea of strength: not brute force, but molecular gravity.
✅ GC-MS interpreted ✅ Excel file with full ingredient list included (proportions withheld) ✅ Ideal for perfumery study, scent recreation, or olfactive minimalism
WOOD. FORCE. FOCUS. This is Duro — and it doesn’t bloom. It stands. 🧪🪵🖤