CORTE DI CATERINA
ESSENZA NOBILE MUSK, AMBER AND SPICES The Queen stands upon the deck of a big Portuguese sailing ship. On her side, the Captain back from the Indies with a precious cargo. Big sacks of pepper, cloves, nutmeg and cinnamon show their brightly coloured contents. A pleasantly pungent smell, a harmonious mixture of the single aromas, pervades everything. A sudden gust of salty wind fills the sails and a whirl of coloured powders soars in the air. The sailors quickly try to close the sacks, but a multi-coloured fog has already risen to the sky. Caterina deeply breathes in that exotic spicy aroma and let herself go, as if she was a child, to that scented whirl. The captain and the sailors disappear, while the sails soaked of aromas and colours push the ship through the immense Ocean and a rainbow of fragrances marks its path.