Maria Candida Gentile

Barry Lyndon was inspired by the novel of the same name, written by W. M. Thackeray in the 19th century of an Irish rogue born to a poor but genteel family who rose to the heights of European society...

In Rome the door of Vittorio Piazza is one of the entrances of the Palombara Villa, where the Marquis Massimiliano conducted clandestine meetings during the Middle Ages dedicated to alchemy. On the...

"One late afternoon, while sitting at my desk writing my perfume formulae, I had a kind of vision: It merged the scent of the elephant’s image with a large field of intensely-colored roses,...

Gentile is modern take on a men’s fougere and also the surname of the perfumer. Translated from the Italian it means “gentle”. This uplifting and well-rounded fragrance, with its...

Inspired by visits to the Giardini Botanici Hanbury in Ventimiglia Imperia, Italy, a city located on the Northern Sea of Italy. Lady Dorothy Hanbury, entertained many notables of her day including...

Maria Candida Gentile created a fragrant homage to the famous blues singer Billie Holiday nicknamed Lady Day by her friend and musical partner Lester Young. Legend has it that one day before a...

Maria Candida created Lankaran Forest during her journey into Lankaran Park, near the border between Azerbaijan and Iran. Lankaran Park is a magic and mystical place, which so...

Maria Candida Gentile's collection of three new perfumes - Leuco, Kitrea and Syconium - takes its name from Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov's Flight of the...

The color, the texture, and the scent of a lavender field capture for many the essence of Provence. Maria Candida Gentile, is the only Italian Maitre Parfumeur whom studied for three years in Grasse,...

Yazemeenah is an olfactive collaboration with model and photographer Yazemeenah Rossi, who started her career in France. Yazemeenah's videos and photos have inspired poems about spirituality,...