The twelfth fragrance of the monolithic UNUM collection, wants to address the emotion of emotions: fear, starting, almost as per tradition, drawing inspiration from the extract from the Gospel of Matthew which tells the parable of the ten virgins, from which the name is also chosen ; to the story of the women who prudently put aside the oil to fuel their lamps when the groom arrived.

We know that of the ten women only five - defined as very prudent - will participate in the wedding party, the others, going to look for oil for their lamps, will find the door closed. “Lord, open to us”, they will say upon their arrival, receiving in response: “truly I say to you: I do not know you”. We also know that, while waiting, they too fell asleep, ready however to wake up and prepare to rejoice at the arrival of the groom: "keep watch, therefore, for you know neither the day nor the hour", we read in Matthew. But this is only the beginning. In reality the idea is to go further beyond the evangelical words to face fear in a more intense and profound way, where even conflicting emotions are placed, undergoing the seductive charm of danger, an "amor fati" as Nietzsche claimed, however presence of the uncontrolled. This element marks horror literature and beyond, and it is exactly the dominion of the uncontrolled over us. Yet fear always needs something else to be fear: not lack of courage, but rather the presence of what we desire most. She who remains the greatest aspiration for the majority of men is also a harbinger of trouble. It's freedom. And the perfume conveys the idea of ​​destruction and voluntary silence and the introspection necessary to dig into the basin of the skin's most remote existence. But controlling fear generates attraction towards it, even experiencing pleasure towards a sought-after, desired and controlled fear. In fact, man is surrounded by a horrifying fate, and our society, with violent mass homologations, wants to stun itself and deny the truth, that is, Being-for-death. Only in this way does man become himself in his most deaf and darkest shadow and manifest his true nature, made up of contradictions and desires. In fact, in the face of fear, primordial needs of apparent disorder are generated, also made up of dormant, hidden and dangerous eroticism, making the impossible possible.

The packaging, strictly adhering to the UNUM collection, this time is closed by a cold transparent film and a silver label. The silver bottle, however, is placed in a "dull" black velvet bag, sealed by a heat-shrink sheath, which must be physically cut using the metal scissors inside the box. Faced with life, in a planet of fragile people, after the religious fall into the kingdom of dust, having lost every safe reference, man is inextricably linked to fear, forced to wander in the nocturnal sides of the soul, and inside that room to perceive like a light dim that materializes a deformation of the limbs, stopping and sharing monstrous things that intend to eat up respectability, taking pleasure in suffocating souls, no longer dealing with the balance sheets of life but with an increasingly distant form of salvation.

SUBJECT Sandalwood, Tonka Bean, Amber, Musc

AGAINST SUBJECT Note Marina, Jasmine, Rose, Iris

TAIL Lemon, Bergamot, Cardamom, Galbanum, Cedar, Lily of the Valley