If today’s beauty packaging is anything to go by, Pablo Picasso might have been onto something when he stated: 'Good artists copy. Great artists steal.' The latest launches are reminiscent of Italian objets d'art – found not in a museum, but in a boutique near you.
Dolce&Gabbana has produced six unique candles, each with a different name and scent: Il nostro Giardino, Neroli, Gentiluomo, Pino Mediterraneo, Incenso e Alloro (Our Garden, Neroli, Gentleman, Mediterranean Pine, Frankincense and Laurel).
The candles are set in Caltagirone ceramic vases, made and hand-painted by local artisans. They take the form of traditional moors’ heads, owls, vases of fruit, the faces of women and men decorated with crowns, lemons, exotic prickly pears, and delicate ornamental motifs. If you imagine the kind of collectables you might find in a flea market in Italy, you’ll get the idea. Touristy tableware never looked (or smelled) so good.
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The new Rossetti Collection is named after the Italian for ‘lipstick’. Each handcrafted item is adorned with the painted lips of Piero Fornasetti’s muse, Lina Cavalieri, and filled with the signature ‘Flora’ fragrance. The scent is inspired by the lush garden which surrounds the Fornasetti house in Milan, and is an elegant blend of iris, jasmine and tuberose, weaved effortlessly together with lily of the valley and trailing green ivy, making it the perfect scent for spring.
Candle from £140
Gucci’s latest luxury olfactory offering, The Alchemist’s Garden, is a collection of perfumes, scented waters, oils, and a candle, in the most OTT vintage-inspired apothecary bottles. Adorned with gold lettering, the Gucci animal personalities, petals, flowers and blooms delicately painted onto pretty-hued bottles, we think, signals an end to the millennial madness of sterile shelfies – although we’re wondering if you might need the Castello to match?
Each fragrance centres on a hero ingredient: Oud, Amber, Violet, Iris, Mimosa, Rose and Woods, but they’re designed to be layered – with over 48 possible combinations you really will be spoilt for choice. Gucci creative director Alessandro Michele partnered with master perfumer Alberto Morillas, who says, 'Each oil or floral water of the collection can be layered with each Eau de parfum – just play with the scent to find your favourite, as an alchemist would work to find the gold formula.'
Candle from £355
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