My taste of perfumes are still conservative. I found one of the oldest perfumes who was created specially for Marie Louise, Duchess of Parma, Napoleon Bonaparte’s second wife. It has a very simple, delicate smell of viollets that make timeless scent. The name of the perfume is: Borsari’s ” Violetta di Parma ”
In the store were I bought it, they told me so many stories, so if I hadnt said them in a very kind way that I had to get home to watch the match yesterday, I had been stuck up with them til now 🙂
SHORT STORY/
The recipe of the perfume was a jealously guarded secret until Italian perfumer Lodovico Borsari persuaded Parma’s monks to part with their techniques for distilling the violet’s escence and he started producing ” Violetta di Parma” at the end of the 1800s.
But the Italian perfumer industry really took off in 1400s centuries Venezia, thanks to the city’s role as a flouring and prosperous trading center with a ready supply of a raw ingrediets. Exotic spices, fragrant oils, unguents, and resins were brought to La Serenissima ( Venezia, was called like this in this century for the main transport to other continents by merchants and explores returning from the Orient. By the 1530s there was a flourishing perfume industry in Venezia.
I swear even if its 40 degrees outside you never can feel a bad smell from anyone. They know how to take care of themselves, it could be a shame if you smell bad. Its unbelievable, how everyone can manage it in this hot. Its in their blood, I guess.
Here is my little jewel, you can be sure to be alone with it, at least in the north of Europe 🙂
