Our history
It all began with Umberto Nobile, Massimo’s grandfather, a name that has always had great importance in the world of luxury fragrances. Since the early 1930s he has been the representative of Nina Ricci’s perfumes and in 1942, in the midst of the Second World War, he decided to open a perfumery for his wife in Rome. It became a family tradition: Massimo’s father, Benito, did the same for his wife in Naples and also Massimo’s brother, who fell in love with a Tuscan woman, opened a perfumery for his wife. Moved by the love for beautiful things and the passion handed down from father to son, Massimo has done something more. It all started with an idea that Massimo has had in his mind and heart for years, an idea that is getting stronger and bigger as time goes by: you can try to hide it but an idea must follow its flow. Thanks to the passion for the world of perfumery acquired in his family and his decades of experience in the great Chanel maison, in 2004, he decided to create with his wife Stefania Giannino a brand that fully represented Italian elegance all over the world. We have never followed trends: the main example is that in 2011, when the western world of perfumery lost its mind to agarwood, Nobile 1942 launched La Danza delle Libellule, a vanilla perfume, which became our best seller all over the world. What is important is to maintain our sober elegance, which lasts over time, to meet the expectations of our customers. The first perfume was Pontevecchio, created in 2004 and distributed in 2005, and marked the entry of Nobile 1942 into the new millennium.

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Nobile 1942 - Il Giardino delle Delizie ml.75 - Profumo

Nobile 1942 – Il Giardino delle Delizie ml.75 – Profumo

€160.00

Nobile 1942 – Il Giardino delle Delizie ml.75 – Profumo

The representation of human vices.
The second fragrance takes us to ‘The Garden of Earthly Delights’ by Hieronymus Bosh exhibited at the El Prado Museum in Madrid. This triptych is considered a masterpiece of surrealism due to its complex symbolism: humanity is represented, according to the Christian doctrine of the Middle Ages, with all its vices and perversions in a satirical depiction of human sins.

On the outer panels, visible when the triptych is closed, God appears at the top in the act of creation: the world is represented as a transparent sphere. When opened, the triptych is revealed in its grandiose beauty.

The panel that inspired the second fragrance of Paradise Lost is the central one, where pleasures and love are represented: exotic animals to represent lust, a multitude of naked figures, some in erotic abandon, others in chrysalis form, are fed by birds carrying cherries and strawberries in their beaks, fruits with aphrodisiac properties.

In the third panel, the scene is transformed into a demonic concert: musical instruments become means of inflicting suffering and pain.

An olfactory representation of the contrasts in the triptych.

HEAD: Rosewood, davana, saffron, plum, almond milk
HEART: Tuberose, sambac jasmine, osmanthus, rose, narcissus, immortelle
NOSE: Benzoin, myrrh, styrax, orris fusion, kashmir fusion, suede, vetiver, amber, musk

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Nobile 1942 - Profumo La Stanza delle Bambole ml.75

Nobile 1942 – Profumo La Stanza delle Bambole ml.75

€160.00

Nobile 1942 – La Stanza delle Bambole ml.75 – Profumo

Children experience life together with puppets and dolls, cared for and loved as a projection of everyday life embedded in a fantasy world, the fruit of children’s creativity. In the relationship with the doll, however, there is also the mischievousness of a child who explores and imitates the world of grown-ups, communicates with an inanimate being and builds her personality by freely expressing unconscious thoughts and hidden visions, also exorcising her own inner monsters. A strong bond that grows over time: the doll is replaced by a doll with the features of an adult woman that becomes a model to imitate. For the adult, the doll can become an object on which to pour one’s love, with which to compensate for one’s deficiencies… or to paradoxically become a child, just now that one has become an adult. Naso, Antonio Alessandria, said of his creation: ‘The clash between the real and the unreal manages to create a totally surreal world. This inspiration simply had to be transcribed into a formula. Thus was born Doll’s Room, a floral perfume, falsely innocent, softly sensual, bursting forth like a whispered scream’.

Top notes: Mandarin, bergamot, milk notes

Base notes: Hawthorn, orange blossom talc notes, ylang ylang

Base notes: Sandalwood, vanilla, tonka bean, musky notes

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Nobile 1942 - Il colore del vento Extrait de Parfum ml.75

Nobile 1942 – Il colore del vento Extrait de Parfum ml.75

€160.00

Nobile 1942 – Il colore del vento Extrait de Parfum ml.75
A unisex niche fragrance for those who embrace challenges, an olfactory metaphor for kite flying. The spicy and citrus top notes evoke resistance to headwinds. The heart, with champagne, coffee, caramelised sugar and bergamot, represents the lightness and adrenaline rush of flight. The base notes of vanilla, caramel butter, amber and white musk symbolise the sweet return and inner transformation.
The nose enjoyed recreating an unusual gourmand accord by playing with notes of butter and champagne. It is the fragrance of those who still have the courage to dream, to lift their feet off the ground, it is wind to challenge and always love, day and night.

Top notes: Lemon, Coriander, Cardamom, Black Pepper, Ginger
Middle notes: Bergamot, Champagne Accord, Caramelised Sugar, Sweet Notes, Coffee
Base notes: Vanilla, Amber Notes, White Musk, Caramel, Butter Note

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Nobile 1942 - Il Capriccio del Maestro 75 ml Extrait De Parfum

Nobile 1942 – Il Capriccio del Maestro 75 ml Extrait De Parfum

€205.00

Nobile 1942 – Il Capriccio del Maestro Exceptional Edition 75 ml Extrait De Parfum
He loved wild company. Lazy and ingenious, neurotic, boisterous and shy: he loved to be in company and, at the same time, he felt the need for solitude… he loved … the raids among the falaschi, the disruption of the quiet of a wild nature, the swearing and blasphemy of his people. However, he only dreamed of escaping as soon as possible, of going to Milan, where a career could be made, where fame and glory, wealth and beautiful women awaited him. Women and cigars, a constancy of his life… Sensitive and cynical, extroverted and anguished (the sudden and noisy gaiety, often boorish, was followed by melancholy and restlessness, gloom), an imaginative but discontinuous worker, willing to love and suffer with an unashamed passion, almost always above the rules, like his female characters, but a shameless liar. This was Giacomo Puccini.
Top notes: Cinnamon, rum, orchid, spicy notes
Middle notes: Tonka bean, honey, benzoin resinoid, tobacco
Base notes: Vanilla, white musk, labdanum, coumarin, patchouli

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Nobile 1942 - Shamal ml.75 - Extrait

Nobile 1942 – Shamal ml.75 – Extrait

€230.00

Nobile 1942 – Shamal ml.75 – Extrait

Shamal is dedicated to perseverance.
The inspiration comes from the character of the pearl fisherman. There is a moment in the desert that leaves the observer totally in awe: when night becomes day and the sky takes on shades from black to blue. Breathtaking.
The pearl fisherman is lying supine and enjoying the view of the starry sky. It is his turn as lookout, the pirates can attack at any moment, raiding that nimble boat laden with pearls and precious cloths, undoing all the hard work of transporting the goods from Oman to Yemen. The fisherman is lulled by the lapping of the waves, a sound that takes him back to his childhood, caressed by the Shamal, the wind that relentlessly – for many years – shaped the dunes in the deserts. As the Shamal blows, gentle but incessant, carrying with it the scent of dates mixed with burning incense, the pearl fisherman lies there blissfully, savouring fruit as he resists the tempting sleep. He finds himself daydreaming, relieving his body of the day’s weariness and reviving his spirit.
Top notes: incense, aromatic notes, apple.
Middle notes: amber, velvet accord.
Base notes: woody notes, musk.

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Nobile 1942 - Rudis ml.75 - Extrait

Nobile 1942 – Rudis ml.75 – Extrait

€230.00

Nobile 1942 – Rudis ml.75 – Extrait

Rudis is dedicated to a great virtue: strength. Rudis is the name of the trophy given to gladiators who won in the arena, a wooden sword, which was a tool but also a symbol of freedom: the gladiator was no longer a slave! To overcome his fear before entering the arena, the gladiator would stun himself with ciders made of dried fruit and marc. The perfume inspired by this object, therefore, must have been a play on contrasts that alternated simultaneously: strength and sweetness, battle and freedom, life and death, virility and weakness. The box is precious: only five craftsmen in the world are able to work leather in this way. Then, with a piece of wood of the same shape as the bottle used as a guide, they take the leather still wet and wrap the first side around the wood and bake it in the oven. The next step is to soak the skin again, following the same process for each side and for the curves that form the box. After this complicated process, you do not notice the seams of the points and the leather is as compact as a piece of wood. In the last step, it is lacquered and sliced before being processed internally. The box can only be closed in one way, depending on how it was cut.

Top notes: bergamot, dried fruit, fruity notes, wine.

Middle notes: rose, geranium, clove, saffron, cedarwood

Base notes: leather, patchouli, vetiver, incense, helichrysum, musk

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