Astrophil&Stella

Astrophil&Stella

Astrophil&Stella is an Italian niche project inspired by the sonnet cycle of Sir Philip Sidney, an Elizabethan poet and politician. In Sir Philip's poems, the hero speaks vividly, with passion, jealousy and subtle irony about his love, but in the end he receives not a beloved, but disappointment and experience.

What will we get?

I was unexpectedly hooked on the slightly old-fashioned floral Mellow Yellow.

“The dawn brought me radiance and warmth -

So tender that the vault is both light and high

I stare for a long time - not scary, not cruel

Rays, but, fearing them, the cold and darkness go away.”

Honey-spicy and sultry aroma of night white flowers, weakening in the morning fog with the first drops of dew. Jasmine with its edible and dense smell of ripe banana, yellow iris, fragrant with lemon cheesecake and narcissus, grandma's dusty carnation and cool moisture. Mellow Yellow at some point is similar to Coque d'Or Guerlain, but I'm sure the coincidence is accidental. Just a July garden at dawn, just a stuffy haze of pollen and flowers, just dew.

A Night at the Opera.

“I’m on a horse, Eros is riding me -

Let's prance to our heart's content; I serve in endless labors,

Rider to the horse, horse to Eros;

I, poor beast, am familiar with all kinds of evil.”

Opera? Seriously? I'm no expert, but the opera has never been so smoky. Blue smoke billows from the ceiling, a strong spirit of lemon wormwood, wheel ointment and leather, and at the end a sourish wine glass. This is definitely not a temple of art, but rather a cowboy saloon or a tractor driver's cabin.

Amberlievable

"When Nature created the eyes

Beautiful Stella in the brilliance of inspiration,

Why did she give them black?

Perhaps emphasizing the light with shadow?

The aroma seemed vaguely familiar. I looked - Luca Maffei did something similar for Laboratorio Olfattivo and a couple of other brands. There are fragrant gingerbreads soaked in amaretto, balsamic rich vanilla and burnt wood. At the center of the story is hot labdanum, with its amber tones and poisonous cherry pit spirit.

The Iris Way

“Oh Stella! my life, my light and heat,

The only sun in the sky

An unquenchable ray, an unquenchable ardor,

Speeches and glances are sweet nectar!”

Yellow iris again with its creamy and lemony scent. Not a flower, an airy cheese soufflé on thin shortcrust pastry, promising a thousand calories in one piece.

8 days a week

“Among the secrets and among the heights,

Prince Reason, only you

I also realized the beauty of notes,

And the singing of beauty.

Tell me to shut up

And crown them with glory!

A typical aroma for conquering hearts is colorful, fussy, foppish. Juicy fresh greens, apple cider, melons and wood. A complete gentleman's package plus a bit of office humor.

Paris Cheri

“Oh sweet kiss, you are pure sweetness,

You will sweeten more than sweets that can be sweetened to your heart's content.

You are a choir in which feelings sang in harmony,

Harnessing the doves to Venus’ cart;”

A French pastry shop near the Saint-Paul metro station, where the coffee machine is noisy, whipping milk foam, tiny eclairs sparkle with colored icing on the counter, and the smells of sweet syrups mix with the noise of Rivoli, the smoke of IQOS and La Vie es Belle, which is still everywhere there. If not him, then his heirs and brothers.

Love is Lost

“Here I see many beautiful Ladies, weaving laces of tender conversation,

But I won’t let them look into my heart,

In their consolation there is an inevitable taste of the healing lie that always

Brings joy where there is trouble."

Going through the Astrophil&Stella samples, I kept waiting, when, when will I come across Evernil? Nowadays no Italian brand can do without Bnego. Although here and besides it, everything is rich and “rich” in an oriental way. Fat black vanilla, fat black rose, fat black paste of spices and amber. Not perfume, but some kind of bakhur. It would not be sprayed, but smoked.

Nabati

“Cupid, Zeus, Mars were judged by Phoebus -

Who has the most beautiful coat of arms?

Zeus has an eagle on his golden shield -

He grabbed Ganymede tenaciously."

Nsbati is reminiscent of a doughy and characterless version of Bois Imperial Essential Parfums. The same patchouli, the same tin, the same wood and watery greenery. Plus a piece of sad wine glass. Boring, but probably sells well.

Moonage Daydream

“The Muse alone is enough for me,

All feelings and words live in me,

Don't store other people's treasures for future use,

Having met Stella, I comprehended Beauty, I copy like a humble student,

What Nature itself created."

Dusty concrete, waist-deep silky grass, spikelets and bindweed. A modest wine glass with internal lighting. Nice but quiet.

Into the Oud

“No, Stella’s heart is a fortress of strong masonry,

There the mind built ditches and towers;

There is neither the means nor the strength to break her.”

Strong, daring and drunk, Into the Oud only looks in the direction of oud from a whole barrel of evernil. Rum, chocolate, raisins and butterscotch, a garland of tropical flowers around the neck, the rotting smoke of IQOS, flying away into the blackness of the southern night. It looks like a lot of things, but I can’t remember what exactly.

Madame M

“She heard my prayers more than once

And she even sang them - so skillfully,

That brightened the darkness of sadness in the heart.”

Madame M is an airy lemon cake with candied fruits, zest and vanilla. In other words, panettone. Compared to Panettone Milano Fragranze or Bake Akro, Madame M has less lemon and spices, more vanilla, sweet airy dough with condensed milk, and that which turns the dessert into perfume.