‘All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream’
From "A Dream Within a Dream" by Edgar Allen Poe
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A visionary scent, pulled from the unconscious mind via an ocean of gauzy marine dreams. Sogno Reale brims with brine-leather, sea urchins and electrified air. Calm sea meets volcanic fumes, woods and a sun-bright shock of lemon and bergamot. Warm rum and sweet, earthen patchouli swirl protectively around gentle tuberose and a quiet dose of hyraceum, warming its fur in the Mediterranean sun. Sogno Reale is balm for the soul; a talisman dreamed into existence, the unconscious mind made extraordinary perfumed flesh.
All about this fragrance
Vibe check
This is a fragrance for close, attentive spaces where its salt, resin and leather facets can unfold without noise. It feels most at home on someone who wants to project depth and strangeness rather than polish, like a quiet presence with a vivid inner weather.
How to wear
Best worn in cooler weather or in the evening, Sogno Reale benefits from restrained application because its extrait concentration and resinous base can build quickly. One or two sprays are enough to let the marine opening, rum warmth and ambered woods move from skin to air with a slow, enveloping trail.
Who it’s for
For wearers who like marine scents with darkness, texture and an offbeat edge rather than clean aquatic freshness. It will appeal to those drawn to resin, incense, leather, salt and woods, especially when they want a fragrance that feels artistic and slightly untamed.
Release year
2015
The nose
Amélie Bourgeois is a French perfumer known for compositions that balance clarity with texture, often giving materials a tactile, atmospheric quality. Her work frequently moves between modern transparency and darker, more mineral or resinous facets, which suits Sogno Reale’s briny, leathery marine character. For Mendittorosa, she translated a highly specific dream image into perfume: sea air, lemon, leather and sea urchin rendered as an extrait with unusual depth and contrast. The result reflects her ability to shape abstract ideas into scents that feel vivid, structured and emotionally charged rather than merely decorative.
Collaborators
Stefania Squeglia, Mendittorosa’s founder, appears to have shaped the fragrance’s core concept from her own dream of sea, lemon, leather and sea urchin, then worked with Paris labs to refine it through multiple trials until the idea was captured in scent. Her role was the creative source and guiding vision behind the composition.
Mendittorosa’s story
Mendittorosa approaches perfumery as an artistic and sensorial practice, treating each fragrance as a new work rather than a variation on a formula. The house favors handmade objects, intimate craftsmanship and symbolic storytelling, with perfumes conceived as talismans, artworks and personal rituals.
Sogno Reale’s concept
Sogno Reale was created from a dream experienced by Stefania Squeglia and developed in Paris into a marine, leathery composition that captures the feeling of an unconscious seascape. It belongs to Mendittorosa’s Talismans collection, where each scent is framed as a protective object and a story in perfume form.
Extra info
Sogno Reale means “Real Dream” or “Royal Dream,” a name that directly reflects its origin story. Its bottle design includes a sea urchin-like cap and a protective mandala, and the fragrance sits within Mendittorosa’s Talismans collection.
‘All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream’
From "A Dream Within a Dream" by Edgar Allen Poe
***
A visionary scent, pulled from the unconscious mind via an ocean of gauzy marine dreams. Sogno Reale brims with brine-leather, sea urchins and electrified air. Calm sea meets volcanic fumes, woods and a sun-bright shock of lemon and bergamot. Warm rum and sweet, earthen patchouli swirl protectively around gentle tuberose and a quiet dose of hyraceum, warming its fur in the Mediterranean sun. Sogno Reale is balm for the soul; a talisman dreamed into existence, the unconscious mind made extraordinary perfumed flesh.
All about this fragrance
Vibe check
This is a fragrance for close, attentive spaces where its salt, resin and leather facets can unfold without noise. It feels most at home on someone who wants to project depth and strangeness rather than polish, like a quiet presence with a vivid inner weather.
How to wear
Best worn in cooler weather or in the evening, Sogno Reale benefits from restrained application because its extrait concentration and resinous base can build quickly. One or two sprays are enough to let the marine opening, rum warmth and ambered woods move from skin to air with a slow, enveloping trail.
Who it’s for
For wearers who like marine scents with darkness, texture and an offbeat edge rather than clean aquatic freshness. It will appeal to those drawn to resin, incense, leather, salt and woods, especially when they want a fragrance that feels artistic and slightly untamed.
Release year
2015
The nose
Amélie Bourgeois is a French perfumer known for compositions that balance clarity with texture, often giving materials a tactile, atmospheric quality. Her work frequently moves between modern transparency and darker, more mineral or resinous facets, which suits Sogno Reale’s briny, leathery marine character. For Mendittorosa, she translated a highly specific dream image into perfume: sea air, lemon, leather and sea urchin rendered as an extrait with unusual depth and contrast. The result reflects her ability to shape abstract ideas into scents that feel vivid, structured and emotionally charged rather than merely decorative.
Collaborators
Stefania Squeglia, Mendittorosa’s founder, appears to have shaped the fragrance’s core concept from her own dream of sea, lemon, leather and sea urchin, then worked with Paris labs to refine it through multiple trials until the idea was captured in scent. Her role was the creative source and guiding vision behind the composition.
Mendittorosa’s story
Mendittorosa approaches perfumery as an artistic and sensorial practice, treating each fragrance as a new work rather than a variation on a formula. The house favors handmade objects, intimate craftsmanship and symbolic storytelling, with perfumes conceived as talismans, artworks and personal rituals.
Sogno Reale’s concept
Sogno Reale was created from a dream experienced by Stefania Squeglia and developed in Paris into a marine, leathery composition that captures the feeling of an unconscious seascape. It belongs to Mendittorosa’s Talismans collection, where each scent is framed as a protective object and a story in perfume form.
Extra info
Sogno Reale means “Real Dream” or “Royal Dream,” a name that directly reflects its origin story. Its bottle design includes a sea urchin-like cap and a protective mandala, and the fragrance sits within Mendittorosa’s Talismans collection.