The Story
Why it exists.
The beginning
Nottetempo comes from the Firenze in Translation collection, released in 2025 by Dr. Vranjes Firenze. The composition reads like an invitation to stay up past reason. Dr. Vranjes continues to treat fragrance as a precise discipline, and Nottetempo extends that method into gourmand territory. The scent leans into the warmth of fermented fruit, dark liquor, and oak-aged vanilla, treating sweetness as a structural material rather than decoration. The black cherry arrives dense and liqueur-soaked, almost like a reduction poured warm over bitter cocoa, while a fleeting citrus brightness cuts through the opening before the deeper notes take hold.
What makes Nottetempo distinctive is the choice to build a gourmand around black cherry and cocoa rather than the more common vanilla-dominant template. Davana, an oil distilled from the Artemisia pallens plant, brings a liqueur-like, almost wine-soaked quality that bridges the fruit and the rum without collapsing into simple sweetness. The herbal facet of davana adds a slightly fermented, almost resinous edge that keeps the composition from reading as a dessert course.
The evolution
The first thirty minutes are loud. Black cherry and cocoa hit the skin with the density of a truffle, dark and almost bitter, the way high-percentage chocolate coats the back of the throat. There's a fleeting brightness underneath, citrus-sharp, that prevents the opening from becoming suffocating. Then the heart takes over, and the rum arrives with its warmth, sweet but edged with the slightly fermented tang of davana. This is where the fragrance earns its keep: the boozy middle phase lasts well into the third hour, rich and unapologetic, and the rum reads more like a slow-aged agricole than a sugary cocktail mixer. By hour five, the cocoa has mostly dissolved into the oak wood and Tahitian vanilla, leaving something quieter but still unmistakably present.
Cultural impact
Nottetempo extends Dr. Vranjes's range into overtly gourmand territory, leaning fully into a register built on chocolate, spirits, and aged woods. Wearers who gravitate toward it tend to be the ones who already love boozy, vanillic fragrances but want something that doesn't announce itself from across a room. The composition holds close to the skin, projecting warmth rather than volume, which makes it especially suited to colder months and intimate settings where a scent can unfold at its own pace.
