BRIONI Les Extraits
*Bottled Obsessions, Hammered Glass
written AMANDA MORTENSON
Brioni insists on elegance as if it were oxygen. The house has been tailoring Rome’s whisper of power since 1945, and now it has chosen to let that whisper linger on skin, in air, in the memory of whoever dared to stand too close.
Les Extraits de Parfum is not a collection in the ordinary sense, more a disciplined experiment conducted in glass and essence, four variations on purity staged like chapters of a book that doesn’t explain itself.
Iris Exquis is iris stripped of politeness, set against lavender, suede, and a shadow of black tea that behaves like a sly accomplice. Encens Minéral glows with incense that refuses to play temple, green edges cut with pepper, a molecule named Mystikal humming like neon behind a curtain. Labdanum Brut moves in velvet, rose liquored up, musk that knows the language of skin better than its owner, a suggestion of vanillin running through it like a signature you can’t quite forge. Papyrus Éternel wears its black tea like a dinner jacket still warm from last night, papyrus rising like smoke, cardamom and vetiver drafted in to remind everyone that refinement also knows how to smolder.
Brioni
Les Extraits Collection / Iris Exquis
The bottles are less containers than geological events, heavy, octagonal, faceted like minerals that decided they preferred couture to caves. A block of glass beaten with hammer-texture until it catches light like a restless pool, ready to sit on a shelf as if permanence were still possible. They are too solid for vanity, too sculptural for bathroom clutter, designed to exist as much as to hold.
Brioni calls the project a symphony of purity and elegance, but it feels more like a private performance never intended for applause, four compositions sealed in silence until released by the warmth of skin. The perfumes breathe in their own tempo, neither asking nor offering permission. They simply are, and that is the luxury.
The house still speaks of sustainability, though here it arrives without the megaphone of trend. Vegan, cruelty-free, responsibly sourced, recyclable—words that have been stripped of their PR costume and pressed back into service as part of the tailoring. Nothing about Les Extraits performs morality; it wears it, like a lining you only notice when you run your hand inside.
Brioni has always operated as if style were less an act than a condition, and Les Extraits extends that condition into air. A suit might command presence, but a scent occupies absence. It lingers where the body has moved on, in the folds of an evening, in the silence after the door closes. Four fragrances, four monuments, four ways of saying the same thing: elegance leaves evidence. Enjoy yourself!
Available from 1 November in Brioni boutiques and select stores, each 80 ml flacon of Les Extraits de Parfum is offered at EUR 290.
Brioni
Les Extraits Collection / Iris Exquis