When Alessandro Gualtieri launches something new, this generally creates a stir. And in fact about Seminalis, the new fragrance composed under the brand Orto Parisi, I already heard everything and everything's opposite well before I could put my nostrils on it. I was prepared for something strange, controversial, even to the limit of brutal, but ...But I was caressed, instead! Cuddled, comforted, literally seduced by the scent of freshly baked butter cookies, sun-caressed skin caressed, warm vanilla milk.This Seminalis is a true frun frun scent (... please, do get me right, frun frun is the sound of a cat purring). Typically ,when I perceive the warm butter cookies it is because the fragrance contains natural sandalwood, and in this case I could swear it is. Then I also smell natural vanilla, cocoa, ambrette seed, patchouli, perhaps Florentine iris. And some white chalky and dusty musks strengthening iris and ambrette. If I'm right, this is one of the most expensive formulas I've smelled this year.Yet, in spite of vanilla, cocoa and cookies, Seminalis is not a sweet or gourmand scent at all; indeed, the feelings that dominate is dry, woody, dusty, twilight; maybe it's due to a rough woody and slightly metallic oud-type note which Alessandro often uses, and that perfectly balances any tenderness, adding that stimulus "Virile" (manly), "Duro" (hard), "Brutus" (brutal) which clearly defines Alessadro's idea of standardized virility. (these ...