Cedro Virtuoso
Acqua di Parma is turning 110 this year, and Cedro Virtuoso is the house treating cedar like it hasn't already been done a thousand times. It pairs Virginia cedarwood with hazelnut, macerated together for thirty days, so the wood stays dry and architectural while the hazelnut goes soft and round around it.
Hazelnut
Calabrian Bergamot
Musk
Cedar
Sandalwood
Ambroxan
Calabrian bergamot opens things with the brightness Acqua di Parma is known for, then the cedar starts showing its spiced, balsamic side once the citrus fades. The hazelnut is doing textural work here, not sweetening the whole thing into a dessert, so what's left reads warm and elegant instead of edible.
This is the third Signatures of the Sun release we've covered, after Oud Ambrosia handled citrus and oud. Cedro Virtuoso is the wood-forward entry in that same family, and it comes with the full ritual treatment: body cream, wash, a candle, and a diffuser, if you want the whole room smelling like it.
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