PARADISO LIMITED EDITION 2025

Pigmentarium launches the third collector’s edition of its bestselling fragrance Paradiso on May 15. A scent that instantly transports you to the shimmering waters of a seaside pool and beneath the sun-drenched crowns of pine trees—Paradiso is a synonym for carefree holidays. As tradition goes, each limited edition invites an artist to reinterpret the Paradiso theme with complete creative freedom. Their canvas is the box and the bottle, and their inspiration is drawn from whatever the fragrance of grapefruit and juniper brings to mind. The first edition was guided by poetry. The second was wrapped in bold red illustrations of dragons, tigers, and herons. And this year? …

For the 2025 holiday season, Paradiso returns — once again reimagined by a woman artist, as with previous editions. This time, however, the transformation goes beyond the visuals. PARADISO LIMITED EDITION VOL. 3 debuts as a perfume, with enhanced intensity and a bolder composition. The grapefruit note has been amplified, preserving the scent’s signature cool bitterness, but now layered with more juiciness, optimism, and momentum. As the classic version of Paradiso remains in the collection, the artist approached this edition as an unexpected and welcome excess. Visually, she embraced the true essence of a "limited edition": something that won’t, and perhaps can’t, be repeated.

The design of this year’s limited-edition box and bottle was created by Eva Rampich. A graduate of Visual Communication in Bern and Graphic Design at UMPRUM in Prague, Eva has long captivated us with her distinctive style—where wit and a playful sense of humor always take center stage. Whether designing music and exhibition posters or gallery catalogues, she brings a sharp eye and unique perspective that often turns functional design into standalone works of art. Though, as Eva herself puts it: “I don’t see my work as art, but as a craft—a service that helps a client build their brand or guides a reader smoothly through a book.” It was this clarity, and our trust that she would place the fragrance into entirely unexpected contexts, that made her an obvious choice for the collaboration.

The message on the box? We don’t think it needs to be “understood.” But what the artist has to say about her own work? That’s something we all want to hear. Here it is:

“I wanted to play with the idea that the flacon slides out from an opaque outer box—offering the viewer a surprising moment even before they smell the perfume. We scrapped earlier ideas like placing the flacon as a sleeping vampire or a can of sardines nestled in red padding and instead focused on Paradiso’s core ingredient: grapefruit. The fruit appears only once the bottle is removed, at which point you realize you’ve just rescued it—at the last possible second—from an alien invasion. An extraterrestrial force, traveling through space in what appears to be a disguised citrus juicer, has come to claim it. As for the perfectly grapefruit-groomed poodle on the outer box—whether the poodle belongs to that same intergalactic civilization is unknown to the designer.

And there it is. Immersed in a geyser of bitter, refreshing grapefruit, rhubarb, juniper, and patchouli, you may find yourself counting how many grapefruits fit into a poodle—and wondering why a UFO would disguise itself as a toadstool in deep space. Here’s to a summer where nothing—and no one—needs to be taken too seriously.