Beauty icon and muse of the greatest filmmakers, Claudia Cardinale died on Tuesday, September 23 at the age of 87. A few months earlier, a perfumer paid tribute to him through a flowery and fruity creation.
The cheetah, there was once in the west, eight and a half… We no longer present the Franco-Italian actress Claudia Cardinale. A true figure of cinema from the 60s and 70s, she marked her time both by her talent and her singular beauty. If she has inspired the biggest names in Italian cinema, she is also at the origin of the creation of a French perfume. Fresh, wooded and floral, it represents the whole spirit of the icon. Zoom.
We are in May 2025 and, in Grasse, the annual Expo Rose is held. It is an event that celebrates the Queen of Flowers through floral and artistic creations. More than 25,000 cut roses adorn the streets, squares and gardens and artistic exhibitions and performances are held everywhere in the city. On this occasion, the perfume brand Geodora had the mission of olfactory illustrating a photograph of Claudia Cardinale “whose grace and route deeply resonate with the brand’s universe“, she explains on her website. The house then reveals the swing neroli perfume extract, a thought fragrance”Like an ode to intense emotions, noble materials and sensory richness.“”
We find in this creation of the nose Gérard Gatti, founder of Geodora, orange blossom and tangerine for the luminous side, dates that bring a sweet touch, but also rose, loukoum, wood and musc. The key? A comforting, enveloping odor, which evokes the sun and the heat. For the perfumer, this composition mixing citrus of southern Italy and the Neroli of Tunisia is a real wink to the actress and its origins. Indeed, if the cinema legend was born from Italian parents, it was born and grew up between Tunis and La Goulette. The major detail: the touch of rose within Swing Neroli is also a reference to the variety of Claudia Cardinale roses, created in 1997 by French Dominique Massad, to honor the actress. “”This perfume pays tribute to its free, mutine and solar beauty“, Writes Geodora. Perfume extract is available on the brand’s website for a cost from € 15 per roll-on of 3 ml to € 185 for 100 ml or € 145 for 50 ml.
The icing on the cake? The fragrance is completely mixed. Thus, the essence of Claudia Cardinale is not content to exist on the big screen, it is now worn in the skin, captured in a bottle.
