22 Settembre 2007 ore 8 Vaporetto per il Lido Venezia was launched in 2007 by Memento Italian Olfactive Landscapes. Each fragrance in the collection is designed to capture a moment in time.

The name 22 Settembre 2007 ore 8 Vaporetto per il Lido Venezia   translates into 22 September 2007 at 8 Vaporetto for the Lido. It is designed to capture a moment in time – the journey by vaporetti to the Lido from the mainland at the end of summer.

The picture on the bottle shows a young woman on a vaporetti, facing forward, the wind in her hair. The boat is moving away from Venice, away from the tourist sites, early in the morning on the first day of autumn and moving towards the Lido, the strip of land that faces the Adriatic Sea, its hotels empty, its sandy beaches quiet.

It opens with the smell of the salty sea. It’s a wistful, aquatic note with a cool freshness blowing through it from bergamot. Star anise, a nod to the spice shops throughout Venice, warms the opening and adds a gentle sweetness with its licorice facet. The star anise has a powdery, floral aspect that calls forward a fresh, soft floral note of peony. Black Bog-rush, which grows on the edges of salt marshes, adds a subtle grassiness that wafts over a sand accord. I smell it, and, in my mind, I can see the deserted beach. Sandalwood, woody and a little green, leads to a base of earthy, woody patchouli and sweet amber smoothed by musk.

The drydown is delicate, evocative and elegant, but it’s the juxtaposition of aquatic and powdery notes makes this fragrance so haunting. 22 Settembre 2007 ore 8 Vaporetto per il Lido Venezia seduces with its ethereal beauty, just the way Venice does.

Cool, soft, serene and haunting any day you wear it.

Notes: salt, bergamot, star anise, peony, big rush, sand accord, sandalwood, patchouli, amber musk