NOSTOS, where Achilles is more beautiful than Ulysses. Nostos in Greek means return—that which is eternally impossible, which speaks to the heart and the imagination; the return within the confused time and space where hope still remains. Nostos is the fundamental root of the piercing feeling called nostalgia, the pain of nostos. Here, perfume is the vehicle for the return to which one yearns in vain. Like a deep and intense incense that has burned for three thousand years, the perfume celebrates the Homeric epic of that beautiful hero, whose anger and its unpredictable consequences sparked the Trojan War. The totemic figure of the desired but unfulfilled nostos is Achilles. This is not the nostos of Ulysses and his Odyssey; here, it is Achilles, the emblem of perfume, conceived by the gods, born of love, like the Trojan War. Achilles is a complex hero with a dual essence: divine through his mother, the goddess Thetis, and human through his father, Peleus. He carries within him the beauty of duality, at times a fearsome warrior with powerful and penetrating musks—the extreme virility of Oud, without which Troy cannot be conquered—and at other times the femininity of the rose. Achilles is the violence and beauty found in the extraordinary diversity of humanity. Spear or shield, this perfume also has a dual nature, where the Greek hero is adorned with the allurements of jasmine and sandalwood. Whether it's the art of war or love, the perfume perfectly approaches the challenge of time, fighting our limited destinies, and ultimately triumphing over the ruthless Greek gods with amber, saffron, and incense. Achilles will never return to his homeland. He knows it, and he fights against that fate, always torn by the desire to return, tormented by that pitiful weapon against fate, by that nostalgia in which we see his humanity triumph. The fragrance of the most beautiful, fragile and dangerous Greek hero, forged by Hephaestus, the god of fire, to ensure victory.