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Maria Candida Gentile Vis ~ new fragrance

Posted by Robin on 16 April 2025 Leave a Comment

Italian niche house Maria Candida Gentile has launched Vis, a new fragrance inspired by the Croatian island of the same name…

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The daily lemming

Posted by Robin on 15 December 2023 5 Comments

The perfect perfumista stocking stuffer: 7 ml miniatures from Maria Candida Gentile, €20 a pop. They've also got a gift set of four 15 ml (your choice!) Eau de Parfum travel sprays for €148, or a set of 16 for €592.

Maria Candida Gentile Viridarium ~ new fragrance

Posted by Robin on 30 November 2023 4 Comments

Italian niche house Maria Candida Gentile has launched Viridarium, a new fragrance inspired by the fresco painting from the Villa of Livia…

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11 Cheap Perfumes Beauty Outsiders Love

Posted by Robin on 21 July 2017 128 Comments

Prada Infusion d'Iris Absolue, Stash SJP and Donna Karan Gold adverts

Earlier this month, Marie Claire did a listicle on 10 Cheap Perfumes Beauty Insiders Love. I have no real objection to their list1 other than the inclusion of a $76 perfume and an $82 body oil — beauty insiders apparently have a different definition of “cheap” than I do, possibly because they don’t have to fork over cash for their beauty products — but I did note on Twitter that I did not love any of their picks. I’ll also add that none of their 10 show up very often in our daily scent of the day polls. So, here is a list of my own. I couldn’t make myself narrow down to fewer than 11, and of course I’ve cheated even more by adding alternatives. As always, do include your own picks in the comments!

Marie Claire included the old standby 4711. I know some of you probably love 4711, and I can’t scoff at it — it’s possibly one of the better fragrances on their list. Still, my old-school drugstore choice would be the venerable spicy carnation, Old Spice…

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Maria Candida Gentile Lankaran Forest ~ fragrance review

Posted by Robin on 10 January 2017 28 Comments

Lankaran Forest at the 2nd Buta Festival of Azerbaijani Arts

Italian niche house Maria Candida Gentile’s latest release, Lankaran Forest, was originally developed as the “bespoke fragrance” for the 2nd Buta Festival of Azerbaijani Arts, held in London in 2015. For that event, set designer Francisco Rodriguez-Weil created a scene inside the Royal Academy of Arts (see above) recalling forests near the Azerbaijan city of Lankaran. Maria Candida Gentile based her fragrance on a tour of Azerbaijan, including those forests (known for their ironwood trees), as well as the Yanar Dag fire mountain, the Absheron peninsula, and the tea and citrus plantations near Lankaran. At the festival, the scent was diffused in the “forest”, and was presented in two concentrations in Lalique bottles.

For the 2016 commercial release under the Maria Candida Gentile label, Lankaran Forest moved into the regular brand packaging…

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