A meeting with Maria Candida Gentile
Yesterday's meeting with Maria Candida Gentile was an opportunity to learn more about a true artist of perfumery, whose works are among the most exciting you'll ever smell. Her fragrances radiate familiar feelings (like a walk in a botanical garden, a love for a certain blues voice, the longing for a child who moved into a far country) in an immediate and very direct way, without any apparent effort. In fact, behind such simplicity is a solid compositive technique obtained through decades of training, and a taste for raw materials which amazes me every time I smell her perfumes.