Besoin Parfum

The founder is Marianna di Palma, who spent many years working for luxury companies before creating her own brand, which grew naturally out of that passion and experience. The fragrances are made in Italy, in a long-established laboratory in Campania that works with experienced perfumers and looks after every step, from choosing raw materials to blending.

The first thing you notice is the packaging, designed like a book. You open the cover and find a sheet of fine paper describing the fragrance, like the first page of a chapter. It turns opening a perfume into a slow, personal gesture.

The collection has five 50 ml extraits de parfum. Zen Mind is the most gourmand and cocooning: spices and roasted chestnuts, then honey, heliotrope and chestnut, over a base of marron glacé, blue chamomile, vanilla, tonka bean, guaiac wood and sandalwood. Leo Rush is meant for anyone who wants to feel confident and driven. Green Onset, Ghost Anise and Babe Amber complete the line. Each fragrance, the brand explains, comes from research into olfactory trends and development work carried out with the laboratory.

Spezieri is an official retailer of Besoin Parfum and carries all five fragrances. 2 ml samples are the easiest way to find out which need is yours; if you would rather smell them in person, visit our shop in Treviso at Calmaggiore 54.