Bottega Veneta Signature

When Your Own Initials are Enough
Discretion, quality, and unsurpassed craftsmanship Bottega Veneta has established a new standard of luxury since its founding in Vicenza in 1966. Steeped in the traditions of Italy’s master leather craftsmen and renowned for its extraordinary leather goods, Bottega Veneta stands for individuality and self-confidence, a philosophy expressed in its famous motto, “When your own initials are enough.” The principles that define the brand are unchanging: outstanding craftsmanship, innovative design, contemporary functionality, and the highest quality materials. Also constant is Bottega Veneta’s commitment to its ateliers, where artisans of remarkable skill combine traditional mastery with breathtaking innovation. Indeed, there is an unusual and inspired collaboration between artisan and designer at the heart of Bottega Veneta’s approach to luxury, a partnership perfectly symbolized by the house’s signature intrecciato woven leather.

A Master of Understatement
Tomas Maier joined Bottega Veneta as Creative Director in June 2001. With long experience at the highest levels of fashion and design, he arrived hoping to spark a renaissance at the venerable Italian brand. He succeeded beyond imagination. Committed to craftsmanship, understatement, and refinement, Maier began by drawing upon the deep bench of artisanal talent in Vicenza to craft leather goods of unmatched quality. In the years since, he has established Bottega Veneta as one of the world’s top luxury goods houses, consistently matching exceptional workmanship to timeless design, tradition to innovation. Now Maier, together with the experts at Coty, has turned his attention to fragrance, the most understated and memorable of luxury goods. The result is again beyond imagination.

Visions of the Veneto
Tomas Maier, the creative force behind Bottega Veneta, conceived of Bottega Veneta’s first fragrance as a dream of the Venetian countryside. In this vision, suffused with warmth, sunshine, and the gentle sound of cicadas, sits an elegant and austere old villa. The interior is illuminated with shafts of sunlight, the wooden floors gently worn beneath faded frescoes. There’s a library lined with leatherbound books, its windows thrown open to capture a summer breeze redolent of hay, earth, forest, and flowers. This vision is a balance of nature and art, a synthesis of raw sensuality and subtle intellect that lingers in the mind like a memory.

Simplicity and Contradiction
Combining soft, rounded curves and powerful shapes, a smooth outside and an intrecciato texture on the bottom, the Bottega Veneta bottle is an object that reveals its complexity only over time. The colors are signature Bottega Veneta: a brunito cap and collar, an ebano logo, and a skin colored leather ribbon clipped with a brunito butterfly. The bottle itself, inspired by Venetian glasswork and the traditional Italian carafe, designed with an eye for timeless lines and resonant juxtapositions, is in every way a vessel of harmonious simplicity and perfectly balanced contradictions.

Crafting a Signature
Bottega Veneta, the eau de parfum, evokes the suppleness and sensuality of the house’s renowned leather goods. The fragrance, a leathery floral chypre, marries the olfactory language of the Venetian countryside—fresh meadows, mown hay, flowers, earth, and wood—with the gentle richness of leather in a creation crafted with the meticulousness of a master artisan.

The backbone of the fragrance is chypre with a combination of bergamot, patchouli and oak moss. Sensual floral and spicy components gesture toward the East, a recollection of Venice’s place at the end of the Silk Road. Natural ingredients trace a global path: there is bergamot from Italy, Jasmine Sambac picked in India, pink peppercorns from Brazil, and patchouli from Indonesia. Composed by renowned master perfumer Michel Almairac, the Bottega Veneta fragrance reveals its signature character from the start. The structure of the fragrance is unique, a fine mesh of extraordinary raw materials whose individual scents are woven together to create a supple and harmonious whole.

A Singular Style
Hers is a face you haven’t seen before. And yet, there is something intriguingly familiar about her. Perhaps it’s the warm smile, the easy gracefulness, the irreverent chic. Like Bottega Veneta, Nine D’Urso has a proud heritage, one she wears lightly but with respect. The daughter of French fashion icon Inès de la Fressange and Italian businessman and art dealer Luigi d’Urso, she reveals the virtues of her upbringing while radiating an elegance and individuality that is completely modern and wholly her own.

Seeing Beauty
The challenge was to picture the soul of a fragrance. For Bottega Veneta, the solution was to work with the legendary Bruce Weber. Weber possesses a unique and uncanny ability to capture the authentic moment. He sees more than others see, and so produces striking images of innocence and sensuality. Shooting on the beach in South Florida with minimal staging or artifice, Weber, Tomas Maier, and Nine D’Urso created a campaign that expresses the sensuality, refinement, and individuality of the Bottega Veneta fragrance.

Price List:
    -Signature 50ml: AED360
    -Signature 75ml: AED455

Point of Sale: 
Wojooh, Sephora, Debenhams and all major retailers