Aqua di Parma BERGAMOTTO DI CALABRIA LA SPUGNATURA
While summer season holidays are nonetheless considerably precarious, permit your self to be transported to the solar soaked fruit fields of southern Italy’s Reggio Calabria; an space well-known amongst fragrance aficionados for its manufacturing of bergamot, the prince of citrus fruits. The 140-year-old Capua 1880 is a fifth-generation family-run producer of citrus fruit important oils. However, it’s their historic artisan strategies of extracting the bergamot oil that makes them so distinctive – and it’s for this valuable hand-extracted oil that Acqua di Parma determined to collaborate with them.
Aqua di Parma BERGAMOTTO DI CALABRIA LA SPUGNATURA
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Introducing Bergamotto Di Calabria La Spugnatura, the newest scent by the Italian fragrance home. As the title suggests, bergamot is the shining star of this restricted version eau de rest room. There are additionally floral accents and notes of juicy mandarin and bitter orange, designed to additional amplify the splendour of the bergamot important oil. Unlike common mechanical Bergamot extraction strategies, ‘With the sponge we’ve got the possibility to gather completely the oil contained within the peel,’ notes Gianfranco Capua, the Capua 1880 CEO. He explains that in fashionable mechanical strategies, the peel impacts the completed product and the scent isn’t as intense.
Aqua di Parma BERGAMOTTO DI CALABRIA LA SPUGNATURA
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This conventional extraction approach, developed in 1700, known as Spugnatura, which means sponging, and is the way in which wherein the bergamot oil is extracted with none contamination from the peel. First the fruit is washed and lower in half. Next up the flesh is scooped out utilizing a spoon known as a cavatore and the remaining pores and skin is fastidiously rubbed onto a sea sponge. The oils are absorbed by the sponge that are subsequently squeezed out. While this ritual might sound easy, it’s a delicate craft that takes years to good. The Capua household at the moment are the one remaining practitioners of this completely handbook approach.
BERGAMOTTO DI CALABRIA LA SPUGNATURA by Acqua di Parma
And to additional spotlight this artisan nature of the scent, when it got here to creating the bottle, the maison broke from their traditional glass vessel and opted for a ceramic one: a hand-poured porcelain bottle (and lid), embellished with hand-painted whimsical illustrations of the golden fruit. Acqua di Parma Blu Mediterraneo Bergamotto di Calabria La Spugnatura, £105.40 for 100ml, johnlewis.com
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