Complimentary tasting
The consultation and local tester delivery are complimentary.
GELO opens sharp and cold — apple, blackcurrant and pineapple cut with bergamot — then drops into birch smoke and jasmine. What is left on skin hours later is oakmoss, vanilla and ambergris: dry, warm and close.
Story of our blend
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- Top notesApple
The first second of the wear — green, cold and just short of sour, the way a fruit tastes before it is ripe.
- Top notesBlackcurrant
Dark and resinous under the fruit, the note that keeps the opening from reading as sweet.
- Top notesPineapple
Sunlit and slightly fermented — the warmth that carries the citrus further than it would travel alone.
- Top notesBergamot
Calabrian rind, pressed cold. It cuts the fruit and sets the edge the whole composition is built against.
- Heart notesBirch
Tar and smoke from the bark. The turn where GELO stops being fruit and becomes a chypre.
- Heart notesJasmine
Picked at night, when the flower gives most. It rounds the smoke without softening it.
- Heart notesJuniper
Cold resin and needle. The material that keeps the heart dry and stops it turning floral.
- Base notesOakmoss
Damp forest floor. The oldest material here, and the one that makes the drydown read as a chypre at all.
- Base notesVanilla
Cured pods, not sugar. It warms the moss from underneath and keeps the base from going bitter.
- Base notesAmbergris
Salt, skin and warmth. What is still there the next morning, on the shirt rather than on the wearer.
Scent service
Taste the collection before choosing.
Book an online fragrance tasting with a VITON XIII guide. We compare the men’s and women’s scents together and help you choose the right full-size bottle.
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Order the complete men’s and women’s tester set; delivery is charged separately.
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Tester sets are not yet available outside the CIS. Full-size bottles can be ordered; the delivery option and cost depend on the destination and the address.
The kitchen test
Smell it before it arrives.
Three things from your kitchen, one for each stage of the perfume. Hold each under your nose for a few seconds, in this order.
- 1 · First minutes
Apple, blackcurrant, pineapple, bergamot
- Take
- A cut green apple, then blackcurrant jam or a crushed currant leaf.
- Notice
- Cold, almost unripe fruit with a dark resinous edge: GELO's opening is never sweet.
- 2 · First hours
Birch, jasmine, juniper
- Take
- Lapsang souchong or smoked paprika, then a few juniper berries from the spice rack.
- Notice
- Smoke and cold needle: the turn where GELO stops being fruit and becomes a chypre.
- 3 · The trail
Oakmoss, vanilla, ambergris
- Take
- A sheet of nori, then a pinch of sea salt, then a vanilla pod.
- Notice
- Damp forest and salty skin, warmed from below: what is still on the shirt the next morning.
A hint, not a copy: on skin the composition sounds rounder than any single ingredient. Smell, never taste, and keep ground spices a hand's width away.