And you, what comes to mind when you read the word “emerald”? A precious stone set into a piece of jewellery? The colour of the water in a cove ringed by Mediterranean scrub? A sea cave, where the light comes in through the opening and plays across the walls and the seabed? For us at Acqua dell’Elba, “Smeraldo” is the floral perfume for women that tells the story of Pianosa, a protected island where nature keeps its own time and where that colour shapes the whole landscape. It is the scent of coastal flowers and ripe citrus, a weave of precise olfactory notes that layer, mingle and settle into harmony, giving life to a fragrance with a precious heart, like an emerald.
The opening notes of “Smeraldo” unfold into a wide floral bouquet, with magnolia and gardenia bringing sweetness and sea cistus adding an almost resinous accent, a tribute to the vegetation that grows close to the water, exposed to the wind. Mandarin and citron hold the composition in balance with a citrus lift, then the fragrance opens out: bergamot and lemon heighten the freshness of the citrus, an ozonic touch recalls the air out at sea, while the nuances of geranium bring the women’s Eau de Parfum back towards the floral, this time with a green and faintly spiced edge.
In the base notes the landscape gains substance, with boxwood and juniper building a green foundation that echoes the low shrubs of the island of Pianosa, and mastic wood, with its warm persistence, completing the fragrance.
“Smeraldo”: Eau de Parfum and Bath and Shower Gel
The island of Pianosa has a low profile, stretched out over the water, that sets it apart from every other island in the Tuscan Archipelago. Nothing rises to interrupt the eye and the vegetation grows dense beside the rock, surrounded by a clear sea that takes on emerald green tones.
The floral women’s Eau de Parfum “Smeraldo” draws on this natural landscape, protected and for that reason so well preserved in its balance. The perfume too, like the beauty of Pianosa, reveals itself little by little: first the flowers of the coast, then the ripe citrus, and finally the woods of the scrub. Time, after all, is the material every precious thing is made of, like an emerald that takes millions of years to reach its unmistakable green.
To carry the same olfactory profile through the day, “Smeraldo” is also a Bath and Shower Gel: a soft gel that cleanses skin and hair while respecting their natural pH, to be massaged onto wet skin until it forms a light lather.
Choose your way of wearing the green of Pianosa with “Smeraldo”, perfume for women and Bath and Shower Gel. You will find them on the website, in our single-brand stores and at partner perfumeries.
