Vogue First! Meet Alta, Bottega Veneta’s New Fragrance Collection

Reported by Vogue.

Two years after Bottega Veneta introduced its first fragrance line — sculptural bottles on marble stands that felt more like objets d'art than anything meant to sit on a bathroom shelf — the house is back with something sharper. According to Vogue, the new collection is called Alta, and it arrives under the creative direction of Louise Trotter, who took over the brand and wasted no time reshaping its beauty vision.

Alta doubles the original lineup, launching with 10 distinct eau de parfums built around what Bottega calls the "Intrecciato duo" concept: each scent pairs one Italian-origin ingredient with one sourced internationally — a structural nod to the house's iconic woven leather. The stated ambition is to "tell a global story, distilling essences from every corner of the globe to create evocative scents that awaken the senses." Less Venice postcard, more passport stamped everywhere.

Wear It Like a Second Skin

Where the first collection announced itself — full-volume, trail-leaving — Alta is notably quieter. These are skin fragrances: intimate, warm, the kind you notice because someone leans in, not because they stepped back. Balliamo layers Italian white fig with American cedarwood into something almost body-temperature soft. Crepuscolo goes stranger and better, pitting unrefined Fior di Sale against South Asian oud — briny meets resinous, and somehow it works. Always Now brings Italian basil accord down to earth with Madagascan bourbon essence, while Montebello opens on blood orange before blooming into North African neroli. The through-line across all ten: opposites held in productive tension. Give any of them ten minutes on skin and you'll meet a different fragrance than the one you sprayed.

The bottles got a redesign too — taller, sleeker, crafted from recycled glass with the Intrecciato weave etched directly into the surface. They're still topped with a wooden cap and gold ring referencing Venetian architecture, and they're still shelf-worthy. All ten come in a 100ml size, with travel formats available for the compulsive reappliers among us.

Alta is the clearest signal yet that Trotter's Bottega is building something with longevity — a fragrance wardrobe, not just a launch moment, and one that gets more interesting the longer you wear it.

Read the original at Vogue.