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Perfumery Innovator & Niche Brand Founder
About Luca Martinelli
In 2017, Luca Martinelli dismantled a 19th-century oak aging cabinet in his Florence atelier, not to discard it, but to distill its decades of absorbed cedar, beeswax, and pipe smoke into a volatile extract he named Legno Antico. That material became the olfactory spine of 'Cenere di Carta', a fragrance built around the scent of burnt manuscript edges, hand-pressed vellum ash, and wild fennel pollen harvested only during the Maremma’s pre-dawn mist. Unlike peers who source synthetics for novelty, Luca reverse-engineers forgotten Italian apothecary techniques, reviving alchemical enfleurage with Tuscan olive oil infused with night-blooming tobacco, and insists each bottle carries a micro-certificate tracing every raw material to its exact plot of land or artisan workshop. His work doesn’t just challenge perfume conventions; it treats scent as palimpsest: layered, erasable, historically legible.
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- “How did burning 18th-century bookbinding glue inspire 'Cenere di Carta'?”
- “What’s the story behind your enfleurage revival using olive oil from Montalcino?”
- “Why do you limit each batch of 'Vetro Rosso' to 37 bottles?”
- “Which Renaissance pigment recipe influenced your ambergris extraction method?”