Krizia
Krizia is the Italian fashion house founded in Milan in 1954 by Mariuccia Mandelli (1925–2015), one of the central figures of postwar Milanese ready-to-wear. Mandelli took the name from Plato's dialogue Critias and built the label across knitwear, eveningwear and animal-print prints, with her husband Aldo Pinto serving as chairman. The perfume line opened in 1980 with K de Krizia, an aldehydic chypre composed by Maurice Roucel around hyacinth, narcissus and oakmoss that has become a quietly admired classic of late-disco-era Italian perfumery. Krizia Uomo followed in 1983, and subsequent decades produced Teatro alla Scala and Krazy Krizia among others. After Mandelli sold the company in 2014, the fashion line wound down, but the fragrance archive remains in circulation through licensees.
DNA over time
Each column is an era. Each colored band shows that family’s share of accord weight across every perfume the house released in that window. Bigger band = the house leaned harder on that family.
