PURPLE NERES - MEO FUSCIUNI

PURPLE NERES - MEO FUSCIUNI

"The violet in spring tells the blossoming of the soul"

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There is a place where my thoughts find refuge, where I withdraw from the world, where I read my poems aloud at the dawn of March, while the first violets of the year emerge from the still cold ground. That place is the garden of my soul. In Black Violets, I confront the theme of absence and the black in which I hide my being, I abandon my mind, where the word becomes a boulder to which I tie my spirit and where poetry becomes a form of invocation. The scent becomes a miracle, black on black.

I chose to tell a new story that has the scent of a black Violet.

Viole Nere is born from my desire to express my love for the garden, as a physical and spiritual place, as a mirror of my consciousness.

I did it by interpreting the famous Violetta, an austere and delicate flower, but with a strong character.

My Violetta tells the mornings of March, when the earth is still damp and cold, soaked by the late winter and the first lights of spring illuminate the meadow. Violets grow and scent the days, a ritual that repeats itself year after year.

I wanted to modernize tradition, seeking the balance between the chypre, fruity, and woody notes. The crisp note of Cassis tells the freshness of those mornings, the accord of Vetiver, Patchouli, and Incense brings us back to the earth, to our roots. The Violet, the Iris, and the floral accord represent emotion, light, and elegance. A contemporary classic, a 1920s Violet but of the new century.

Viole Nere was conceived, created, and arranged by listening to the album The Angel and the Dark River by My Dying Bride and reading the poems of Mariangela Gualtieri at each of these stages.