Elisabetta, Bosetti Tonatto: “Since yesterday her perfume no longer exists, I deleted the formula”

“Rose, jasmine, lavender and orange blossom were the scents that Queen Elizabeth loved so much and create a fragrance tailored to this extraordinary woman, with a great desire to live, fun, but also with great rigor, capable of putting everyone he met at ease was one of the most exciting and particular moments of my professional career “. So at Adnkronos, Laura Bosetti Tosatto, a professional ‘nose’ known all over the world who has created great fragrances since 1986, talks about her experience with Buckingham Palace when she was asked to create a perfume tailored to Elisabetta, a fragrance that has not been it exists more because the creator herself canceled it yesterday, after hearing the news of her disappearance. “The Queen – she says – knew that I had made the perfume for ‘The lute player’ by Caravaggio exhibited at the Hermitage in St. Petersburg and was very impressed because the combination of art and perfumes was something she had never seen before, so I was called to Buckingham Palace to talk about my working method. I explained that mine is always a philological work, from what I see inside a painting I extract the olfactory elements with which I create the fragrance. They asked me to create a custom perfume through an olfactory portrait of Elizabeth and they gave me very simple indications, I had to respect the fact that it recalled the joie de vivre and had a British style, without any opulent traits. “” The work lasted more than 2 years , I presented twelve fragrances, three per season, she chose one per season and from this her fragrance was born, which contains her favorite flowers set with amber that has always told her about nne of power. The formula is secret, obviously I know it by heart but since yesterday it no longer exists, I deleted it from where I had recorded it because it was her personal perfume, no one could smell it, and I believe this should be absolutely respected “, concludes Laura Bosetti Tonatto. remembering the meeting with the sovereign on the occasion of the Garden party at Buckingham Palace in the diplomatic tent. “Shortly before the party I met her personally with Prince Philip, it was raining outside and when she saw me she asked me how I was dry. I said that having to meet an important person I had arrived early. This this thing made her smile and that smile is what will remain of that encounter with a unique and extraordinary person “.