Paolo Gigli
Florentine perfumery in hand-blown Murano flacons.
A Florentine perfumery founded in 1948 by Nello Gigli and now run under the name of his son Paolo, working in the artisanal Tuscan tradition. The house composes small, distinct collections — I Quattro Elementi, Quattroventi, Caraibi, Alhambra, Excentrique — each grouped around a thematic conceit such as the four elements, the four winds, or specific places. What sets the house apart is less the juice than the presentation: bottles are hand-blown Murano glass, individually coloured and decorated with twenty-four-carat gold and inset gems, made in the Venetian glassmaking tradition. The compositions inside lean into Mediterranean materials — citrus, fig, iris, leather, oud, amber — in a recognisably classical Italian register. It suits wearers who treat a fragrance flacon as an object to live with rather than a vessel to be emptied.
Releases
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.
