Andrea Cicogna

Perfumer · Rome · Est. 1585

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The Perfumer

Scent is not
created.
It is found.

Andrea Cicogna does not compose fragrances the way others do — working outward from a brief, a trend, a market expectation. He works in the opposite direction. He begins with the world as it is: raw materials of extreme quality, sourced where they grow, harvested when they peak, reduced to oils of singular concentration.

His process is one of subtraction. Layer by layer, he strips away everything unnecessary until what remains is the essential truth of a thing — a cedar forest at dusk, a stone room warmed by afternoon light, the first rain on dry Roman earth.

The result is not perfume in the conventional sense. It is liquid memory. Dense, quiet, and unmistakable.

"Every material holds a memory older than its name.
My work is to follow it back to the source."

— Andrea Cicogna

Raw Materials

Ingredients of extreme rarity

No synthetic shortcuts. No approximations. Each oil is built from primary materials whose provenance is known and whose quality is verified in person. This is the foundation of everything.

Oud

Assam, India · Aquilaria malaccensis

The rarest aromatic material in the world. Oud is the resinous heartwood that forms when the Aquilaria tree responds to infection — a wound that becomes precious over decades. Andrea sources his oud directly from Assam, where the oldest trees still grow. Dark, animalic, sacred. No synthetic approximation comes close.

Iris

Florence, Italy · Iris pallida

Iris butter — orris — is extracted from the dried rhizome of the Florentine iris after three years of curing. The result is one of the most complex and expensive materials in perfumery: powdery, violet, rooty, and something else entirely that resists description. Andrea uses it as structural architecture beneath the oil — invisible but essential.

Benzoin

Laos · Styrax tonkinensis

A balsamic resin tapped directly from the wounded bark of the Styrax tree. Benzoin smells of vanilla, incense, and something almost edible — a warmth that anchors other materials and extends their life on skin. In the Venetian spice trade it was listed simply as benjui, exchanged alongside pepper and silk. Andrea uses it as a closing note: a warmth that makes the fragrance remember itself.

Bespoke

Create your
own signature
fragrance

No two people smell the world the same way. Andrea Cicogna will guide you through an intimate olfactory journey — not to find a fragrance, but to reveal the one that was already yours.

Through a series of private sessions in Rome, you will explore raw materials, unlock memories, and trace the sensory map of who you are. The result is an oil composed exclusively for you — never replicated, never sold to anyone else.

It is not a product. It is a portrait.

Begin the journey

01

The Conversation

We begin with a long, unhurried conversation. Not about perfume — about you. Your memories, your spaces, your silences. The material comes later.

02

The Exploration

You will smell dozens of raw materials — resins, woods, flowers, earths. Your reactions, instinctive and unfiltered, become the vocabulary of your fragrance.

03

The Creation

Andrea composes your oil. You receive a single, numbered flask — yours alone. The formula is never shared, never repeated, never sold.

Lineage
1585

A name that carries
four centuries of history

The Cicogna family is among the oldest of the Venetian patriciate. In 1585, Pasquale Cicogna became the 88th Doge of the Serenissima — the elected ruler of the most powerful trading republic in the Mediterranean, a city whose wealth was built on the commerce of spices, resins, and aromatic materials from the East.

Andrea does not invoke this lineage as decoration. He carries it as a frame of reference: a sensibility toward materials, toward craft, toward the idea that things of true quality require patience and cannot be hurried. From Venice to Rome, from the Republic to the present, the instinct remains the same.

The signature on the label is not a logo. It is a continuation.

Enquiries

These oils are not bought.
They are chosen.

Each creation is produced in small quantity. Commissions, bespoke compositions, and architectural scenting projects by introduction only.

andrea@andreacicogna.com