Nasomatto - Italian for 'crazy nose' - is Alessandro Gualtieri's radical approach to perfumery. Each fragrance is deliberately uncategorisable: Black Afgano is incense and obsession; Baraonda is chaos; Blamage is shame worn beautifully. These are not perfumes for the timid.
"I start making something but at a certain point it starts making choices by itself.
It is the process that interests and guides me.
I like the feeling that I'm losing control and I'm not the one making the choices.
My involvement is to create something that is alive that will be able to say new things.
I want my perfumes to have an intelligence of their own,