2# Nota di Viaggio (Shukran…).

Shukran means thank you, in Arabic, in Moroccan culture, and in the language of hospitality. This fragrance is the olfactory equivalent of that moment: a host pressing a glass of mint tea into your hands, the steam rising, the first sip. Giuseppe Imprezzabile built this around the idea of gratitude as an opening note, not a heart, not a base. Gratitude first. Everything else follows. The name is a travel note, a diary entry, exactly what Meo Fusciuni intends each fragrance to be: a chapter from somewhere specific, felt in real time.

What makes this work is the reversal. Mint almost never leads, it's a supporting player, a freshness accord, a cool-down effect. Here, Moroccan Dwarf Mint opens the composition and stays through the heart, turning something common into something defining. The tobacco doesn't compete with the mint; it complicates it, adds weight, makes you lean in. It's not trying to be a summer fragrance or a winter fragrance. It's trying to be true to a moment: tea on a terrace, the quality of light in a specific place, the specific pleasure of being somewhere unfamiliar and welcomed.

The opening arrives sharp and clean, Moroccan mint doing exactly what Moroccan mint does, bright and herbal and immediately present. The chamomile and lemongrass soften the edges, introduce something almost medicinal but gentle, like a tonic rather than a cure. The tobacco arrives quietly, not a smoke but a warmth, threaded through the green and not quite willing to leave. Sandalwood anchors the base, and that's when it becomes intimate, the sillage drops to something close, personal, the kind of fragrance someone notices only when they're already beside you. The drydown stays close enough that you catch it when you move your wrist toward your face.

Regarded by many in the indie fragrance community as the definitive mint scent in artistic perfumery. The Moroccan mint tea reference is specific enough to earn a dedicated following among those who want freshness with actual depth, not a cooling accord, but a real composition. This fragrance represents a shift toward authentic botanical storytelling in independent perfumery, demonstrating that fresh and herbaceous notes can carry emotional weight without sacrificing sophistication or lasting presence.