Venus's Slipper

A mountain stream with crystal-clear waters flows through an undergrowth dominated by mosses and ferns, where bushes of Dog Rose and expanses of wild blueberry alternate with intoxicatingly fragrant honeysuckle. This is the natural habitat of the Abruzzo National Park, where the Lady’s slipper orchid, a flower so rare and delicate that it must be protected, grows wild. This symbol of strength and fragility inspired the second fragrance created by PARCO1923 with the help of the Park’s botanists, an Eau de Parfum with sensual white floral notes resting on a bed of mosses and woods.

The floral bouquet is enriched by the refined powdery notes of iris and red lily, velvety and creamy, while a substantial woody and musky base evokes the Park and its most iconic tree, the beech, lending the fragrance as a whole a rugged, ancient accent.

To emphasize the close connection to the land that PARCO1923 represents, the bottle’s simple, understated design is topped with a beech wood cap and a ring of Pietra Gentile, a stone used for centuries in this region to build noble palaces and ancient churches. With each spray, the stone’s porosity carefully captures the molecules that would otherwise disperse into the air, and once the bottle is empty, the stone ring can be removed and kept, continuing to release the fragrance.