Maria Candida Gentile

Maria Candida Gentile

“The best fragrances are able to induce deep emotions; they are authentic. We all grew up with Nature, for thousands of years we develop our instinct and emotions based on what we saw, touched, heard and smelled.” - Maria Candida Gentile

Maria Candida Gentile studied in Grasse in France under the guidance of master perfumer Carol André and is the only Italian and one of the few women who have earned the esteemed title of Maître Parfumeur. Signora Gentile creates fragrances that are created from the finest raw materials with a high percentage (between 80 and 98 percent) of essential oils and absolues. Each evokes a special moment, place, a work of music or cinema. Internationally acclaimed Fragrance expert and biophysicist, Luca Turin exclaims that Maria Candida Gentile’s fragrances are “rich, warm, versi-colored, joyful compositions that make you smile with pleasure..."

The fragrances are inspired by numerous trips Maria Candida Gentile makes all over the world in search of purest ingredients. Maria Candida passionately brings back to life a thousand years of French and Italian perfumery yet are sophisticated and contemporary and in harmony with nature.

  • Yazemeenah

    Maria Candida Gentile

    Yazemeenah

    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, shedding an important light on the world of holistic …

    $7.00 - $200.00
  • Lankaran Forest

    Maria Candida Gentile

    Lankaran Forest

    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 fascinated Alexander the Great that he declared it be.…

    $7.00 - $200.00
  • Elephant & Roses

    Maria Candida Gentile

    Elephant & Roses

    "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, almost fuchsia. The elephants were running and trampli…

    $6.00 - $200.00
  • Leucò

    Maria Candida Gentile

    Leucò

    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 Bumblebee. In the opera for which Rimsky-Korsakov...…

    $7.00 - $200.00
  • hanbury perfume by maria candida gentile

    Maria Candida Gentile

    Hanbury

    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 Winston Churchill who loved to come every year in spr…

    $7.00 - $200.00
  • Luberon parfum extrait

    Maria Candida Gentile

    Luberon

    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, located not far from Le Luberon .This aromatic per…

    $7.00 - $230.00
  • Gentile parfum extrait

    Maria Candida Gentile

    Gentile

    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 surprising floral and herb essences was created by Ma…

    $7.00 - $230.00
  • Lady Day parfum extrait

    Maria Candida Gentile

    Lady Day

    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 performance she burned her hair with a curling iron and f…

    $7.00 - $230.00
  • barry lyndon perfume

    Maria Candida Gentile

    Barry Lyndon

    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. He traveled all over Europe in this picturesque a…

    $7.00 - $200.00
  • Cinabre perfume by Maria Candida Gentile

    Maria Candida Gentile

    Cinabre

    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 door one can still read “the seed from which w…

    $7.00 - $200.00
  • Exultat

    Maria Candida Gentile

    Exultat

    Exultat is inspired from the fragrance that the Italian families used to give during the wedding ceremonies. The white linen prepared for the ceremonies are purified with ash and lavender. Maria Candida Gentile visited the San Lorenzo church in Rome,…

    $7.00 - $200.00
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    Olm - Extrait de Parfum

    Zoologist

    Olm - Extrait de Parfum

    Over millions of years, persistent rainwater gnaws at porous limestone, carving out karsts deep within the earth. Carried in droplets, sediment grows upon itself, forming misshapen statues. The...

    $7.00 - $200.00
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    Extreme Passion

    Lorenzo Pazzaglia

    Extreme Passion

    What ‘s the face of passion? Passion begins slowly, with curiosity. Then it grows, overwhelms, upsets every balance, and finally settles down, leaving us in a state of

    $7.00 - $175.00
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    Speachless

    Lorenzo Pazzaglia

    Speachless

    If Speachless were a song, it’d be pure rock: loud, unapologetic, and impossible to overlook. A wild wave of sound that crashes into your senses and hijacks your mood. This isn’t background music...

    $7.00 - $175.00
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    Que Chimba

    Lorenzo Pazzaglia

    Que Chimba

    Que Chimba: bold and sensual, capturing the essence of life, the essence of passion. A warm Colombian afternoon, the sun dancing among the palm leaves. A chalice of Aguardiente Colombiana rises,...

    $7.00 - $175.00
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    Ex Idolo Sample Pack

    Ex Idolo

    Ex Idolo Sample Pack

    Receive 1.5mLs of all four scents from Ex Idolo, supplied in 2mL glass vials with spray top:  Love & Crime, Lucid Dream, Thrty-Three and Ryder

    $25.00
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    The Abandoned Mansion

    Imaginary Authors

    The Abandoned Mansion

    Aimless twenty-somethings Calvin and Millie didn’t mean to drop off the face of the earth but when they stumbled onto an abandoned mansion while hiking in the Adirondacks, that’s just what they did...

    $5.00 - $115.00
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    Orchid Mantis- Extrait de Parfum

    Zoologist

    Orchid Mantis- Extrait de Parfum

    In the muggy shade of a tropical rainforest, an orchid sways seductively. Its glistening petals tremble in anticipation, inviting a passing butterfly to consummate the intimate act of pollination...

    $7.00 - $200.00
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    Rosa Raimunda

    Strangers Parfumerie

    Rosa Raimunda

    Rosa Raimunda emerges as a fragrant ode to the captivating narratives of the Spanish cinematic gem, Volver. Inspired by the kaleidoscope of colors that define each female character in the film, this...

    $5.00 - $90.00
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    Cornwall Rose

    Strangers Parfumerie

    Cornwall Rose

    Cornwall Rose is inspired by the picturesque garden of perfumer Prin Lomros's sister. It's nestled in the heart of Cornwall, England, where the land meets the sea in a stunning display of natural...

    $5.00 - $90.00