"No fiction of romance presents so awful a picture of the ideal tyrant as that of Caligula by Suetonius. His palace - radiant with purple and gold, but murder everywhere lurking beneath flowers."
- Thomas de Quincey, The Caesars
Decadent, fleshy, and a little pungent, with all the excess of imperial Rome. This is a very fruity, floral, feminine scent, with notes of frangipani, pomegranate, wine, white grape, grapefruit, strawberry, and blackberry.