Rudis

Rudis is dedicated to a great virtue: strength. Rudis is the name of the trophy given to gladiators who won in the arena, a wooden sword, which was an instrument but also a symbol of freedom: the gladiator is no longer a slave! To overcome his fear before entering the arena, the gladiator would daze himself with sips of dried fruit and pomace wine. But why are we talking about gladiators in the 21st century? Massimo Nobile thinks that today all professionals and small business owners have their own battle to face and win. This is why we created a fragrance that would give energy for this battle, in a mental and physical way. The perfume inspired by this object, therefore, had to be a play of contrasts that alternated simultaneously: strength and sweetness, battle and freedom, life and death, virility and weakness. The box is extremely precious: only five artisans in the world are able to work leather in this way. The manufacturing process takes a long time and begins by taking the leather and soaking it. Then, with a piece of wood in the same shape as the bottle used as a guide, they take the still wet leather and wrap the first side around the wood and bake it in the oven. The next step is to immerse the leather again, following the same process for each side and for the curves that form the box. After this complicated process, the seams are not noticeable and the leather is compact like a piece of wood. In the last step, it is lacquered and cut into slices before being worked internally. The box can only be closed in one way, depending on how it was cut. There are two points that serve as a guide to correctly close the lid.