Luciano Soprani
Late-1980s Milanese fashion-house perfumery.
Luciano Soprani's perfume line was started in 1987 by the eponymous Italian fashion designer, who had left his Reggiolo farming family in the early 1970s for Milan and built a reputation through freelance work for Basile, Gucci and his own label, founded in 1982. The first fragrance, Luciano Soprani, was a powdery floral-fruity chypre with cinnamon, patchouli, sandalwood, rose and amber that registered the late-1980s Milanese taste for warm, structured femininity. The brand widened in 1995 with Solo Soprani, marketed as a natural scent and successful enough to spawn a multi-coloured Solo collection, including Solo Blu, Solo Rose and Solo Musk, and later an emotional series with Solo Smile, Solo Love and Solo Dream. Soprani himself died in 1999, but the perfume catalogue was acquired in 2012 by the Italian group Coswell-Eurocosmesi, which has carefully reissued and maintained the line for an audience nostalgic for the bright, optimistic Italian fragrances of its era.
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.
