An immersive fougere that storms your senses with a muscular version of the great outdoors. Hallucinogenic wormwood takes the reins of a wild gallop through fir, cedarwood and tobacco. The fierce greenness is cushioned by a plush and saturated musk.
All about this fragrance
Vibe check
Viride suits a close, confident setting where its green force can unfold without being softened by distance. It feels like the scent of someone who has just come in from the heat carrying crushed herbs, dry wood and a trace of tobacco on their clothes.
How to wear
Best worn in mild to warm weather, where its aromatic green structure can breathe without losing its depth. A light hand is enough: the extrait concentration gives strong presence, and the musk and woods settle into a long, textured trail that is especially compelling on skin.
Who it’s for
For wearers who like green fragrances with backbone: herbal, woody, slightly bitter and unmistakably old-school. It will appeal to people who enjoy fougères with a darker, more tactile finish and who prefer character over transparency.
Release year
2014
The nose
Alessandro Gualtieri is the force behind Viride, and his work is known for intensity, texture and a refusal to smooth things over. Often called “The Nose,” he built a reputation with Nasomatto before founding Orto Parisi, where he pushes fragrance toward the primal, the bodily and the vividly atmospheric. His style tends to favour bold contrasts, dense materials and compositions that feel alive on skin rather than polished into anonymity. In Viride, that instinct shows in the way green herbs, woods and musk are made to feel muscular and almost feral, while still retaining a classic fougère structure.
Orto Parisi’s story
Orto Parisi is built around Alessandro Gualtieri’s idea that the body is a garden and its scent reveals something essential about the self. The house rejects polite minimalism in favour of raw, concentrated compositions that feel instinctive, tactile and deliberately uncompromising.
Viride’s concept
Viride was created in 2014 and draws on Gualtieri’s travels in Yemen, where he noticed men wearing aromatic herbal crowns in the heat. That image of body scent, herbs and sun-baked air became the starting point for a fragrance that translates wild greenery into something vivid, dense and almost hallucinatory.
Extra info
Viride takes its name from the Latin word for “green.” The fragrance is known for its distinctly audible note structure, with herbs, woods and musk each remaining clear rather than blending into a seamless blur. Orto Parisi presents it in the house’s compact 50 ml spray format.
An immersive fougere that storms your senses with a muscular version of the great outdoors. Hallucinogenic wormwood takes the reins of a wild gallop through fir, cedarwood and tobacco. The fierce greenness is cushioned by a plush and saturated musk.
All about this fragrance
Vibe check
Viride suits a close, confident setting where its green force can unfold without being softened by distance. It feels like the scent of someone who has just come in from the heat carrying crushed herbs, dry wood and a trace of tobacco on their clothes.
How to wear
Best worn in mild to warm weather, where its aromatic green structure can breathe without losing its depth. A light hand is enough: the extrait concentration gives strong presence, and the musk and woods settle into a long, textured trail that is especially compelling on skin.
Who it’s for
For wearers who like green fragrances with backbone: herbal, woody, slightly bitter and unmistakably old-school. It will appeal to people who enjoy fougères with a darker, more tactile finish and who prefer character over transparency.
Release year
2014
The nose
Alessandro Gualtieri is the force behind Viride, and his work is known for intensity, texture and a refusal to smooth things over. Often called “The Nose,” he built a reputation with Nasomatto before founding Orto Parisi, where he pushes fragrance toward the primal, the bodily and the vividly atmospheric. His style tends to favour bold contrasts, dense materials and compositions that feel alive on skin rather than polished into anonymity. In Viride, that instinct shows in the way green herbs, woods and musk are made to feel muscular and almost feral, while still retaining a classic fougère structure.
Orto Parisi’s story
Orto Parisi is built around Alessandro Gualtieri’s idea that the body is a garden and its scent reveals something essential about the self. The house rejects polite minimalism in favour of raw, concentrated compositions that feel instinctive, tactile and deliberately uncompromising.
Viride’s concept
Viride was created in 2014 and draws on Gualtieri’s travels in Yemen, where he noticed men wearing aromatic herbal crowns in the heat. That image of body scent, herbs and sun-baked air became the starting point for a fragrance that translates wild greenery into something vivid, dense and almost hallucinatory.
Extra info
Viride takes its name from the Latin word for “green.” The fragrance is known for its distinctly audible note structure, with herbs, woods and musk each remaining clear rather than blending into a seamless blur. Orto Parisi presents it in the house’s compact 50 ml spray format.