Pantheon Roma - Donna Margherita

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The perfumes from Pantheon Roma were inspired by the most beautiful love story of the Italian Renaissance and tell this story in Extraits de Parfum.

The delightful story tells of the painter Raphael Sanzio, who is summoned to Rome by the Pope to decorate his chambers with murals. He suddenly finds himself among the highest nobility of his time and is betrothed to Maria, the niece of Cardinal Medici. But Raphael falls hopelessly in love with Margherita, a baker's daughter in the Trastevere district. Given the differences in their social status, it is a forbidden love affair – in the garden behind her father's bakery. Their passion is so great that Raphael falls ill after a wild night with Margherita and dies a few days later. He is buried in the Pantheon and is the only artist to have been accorded such an honour. Margherita enters the neighbouring convent to be near him and as a sign of her eternal love for him. This story is so wonderful and moving that it has been told through perfumes, as they have an incomparable ability to evoke memories and emotions.

The fragrances are highly unusual: they describe the characters and places in this story in a completely unexpected way. In ‘Notte d'amore’ – the night of love – there are not only deep notes of ambergris and oud, just as the fragrance ‘Il Giardino’ – the garden – almost completely omits flowers. ‘Raffaello’ – Raphael – contains absinthe and leather, and ‘Donna Margherita’ expresses its sensuality so deeply with tuberose that it almost seems like ambergris.