History dominates everything, instead of surrendering to it. Fashion? Sure, a Prada store can live next to a monastery. Gucci can pay for a church restoration as thanks for being born in the neighborhood of such sanctified company. But it’s the perfumeries that are the ultimate Italian power move: the perfumeries are churches, or palaces, or both. Since I wanted to see the birthplace of perfume and politics, I had just one place to start.
— Arabelle Sicardi goes to Florence to explore the "connection between god and perfume and power". Read more at Perfume, Power, and God at Racked.
Arabelle’s entire piece on Racked is a worthy, fun read. I’d loved her less than sacred take on that gorgeous, old, scented city.
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