Lorenzo Pazzaglia

Lorenzo Pazzaglia is a chef before he is a perfumer, and you can tell. His extraits are built like dishes: bold, generous and layered, made to be enjoyed rather than admired from a distance. One of them is even named after his signature dish, Carbonara.

Most of the line is fruity, boozy or sweet, and almost none of it is shy. Summer Hammer is a mango piña colada with white rum. Sun Gria is sangria: blood orange, peach and red wine. Van Py Rhum pours rum over soft vanilla, and Coffee Passion holds about as much coffee as a perfume can. When he goes darker, in Incenso Notturno or FOM, it turns to smoke, birch tar and whisky by the fire.

The Discovery Kit has 10 of the bestsellers as 2 ml sprays, and most scents also come as single samples. Or smell the full line in the shop at Badstuegade 16 in Aarhus C.