Nobile 1942

Everything start with Umberto Nobile, Massimo’s grandfather, a name that has always been synonymous with luxury fragrances. Since the early 30s he represented Nina Ricci perfumes and in 1942, at the heigh of Second World War, he decided to open a perfumery for his wife in Rome. It became a family tradition: Massimo’s father did the same for his wife in Naples and also Massimo’s brother, who fell in love with a woman from Tuscany, opened a perfumery for his wife. Moved by love of beautiful things and by passion handed down from father to son, Massimo did something different. In 2004, he decided to create with his wife Stefania Giannino a brand that represents the italian elegance worldwide. We’ve never followed trends: the main example is that in 2011, when the western world of perfumery went crazy for agarwood, we launched "La Danza delle Libellule", a vanilla perfume, that became our best seller worldwide. What is important is to keep our sober elegance, that can stand up over time, to meet our customers’ expectations. The first fragrance was Pontevecchio, created in 2004 and distributed in 2005, which marked the beginnig of Nobile 1942’s in the new millennium.
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La Danza Delle Libellule
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La danza delle Libellule Exceptional Edition
Nobile 1942
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Cafe Chantant Exceptional Edition
Nobile 1942
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La Stanza Delle Bambole
Nobile 1942
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IL Capriccio Del Maestro
Nobile 1942
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Shamal
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1001
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Sandlo Nobile
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Rudis
Nobile 1942
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La Danza Delle Libellule
Nobile 1942

La Danza Delle Libellule

$223.00
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The fragrance that makes you smile. It’s created according to aromatherapy for a pampering effect for hardest days. “The dance of dragonflies” is an operetta by Franz Lehar and it’s a kind of invitation to take life a little bit less seriously. A fragrance to devote to yourself, when femininity cries out, clai-ming some time for frivolousness, cuddles and the gentle insouciance that all women deserve. With this spirit, La danza delle libellule, brings all the light-ness necessary to soothe even the most troubled hearts.

Fruity, Gourmand

Fragrance Notes: 

  • Top Notes: Bergamot, Red Apple
  • Middle Notes: Cinnamon, Cocoa
  • Base Notes: Vanilla, Cedar, Musk

Nose: Robertet Perfume Code: afternoon 

La danza delle Libellule Exceptional Edition
La danza delle Libellule Exceptional Edition
La danza delle Libellule Exceptional Edition
La danza delle Libellule Exceptional Edition
Nobile 1942

La danza delle Libellule Exceptional Edition

$328.00
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It’s created according to aromatherapy for a pampering effect for hardest days. “The dance of dragonflies” is an operetta by Franz Lehar and it’s a kind of invitation to take life a little bit less seriously.
 Dukes, Counts, castels, lush gardens and magnificent dresses, jolly trips and idle pastimes, romantic encounters and love intrigues... 
A fragrance to devote to yourself, when femininity cries out, claiming some time for frivolousness, cuddles and the gentle insouciance that all women deserve. With this spirit, La danza delle libellule, brings all the lightness necessary to soothe even the most troubled hearts.
Fragrance Notes: 

  • Top notes: apple, bergamot 
  •  Heart notes: cinnamon, cocoa 
  •  Base notes: cedarwood, vanilla, musk

 Nose: Robertet 
 Perfume Code: afternoon
 Perfume Mood: a real cuddle!
Cafe Chantant Exceptional Edition
Nobile 1942

Cafe Chantant Exceptional Edition

$328.00
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La Stanza Delle Bambole
La Stanza Delle Bambole
La Stanza Delle Bambole
La Stanza Delle Bambole
Nobile 1942

La Stanza Delle Bambole

$279.00
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Let’s play pretending to be…
Children experience life with dolls and puppets. Attended, pampered and loved dolls, a projection of daily life placed in a fantasy world created ad hoc by a childish imagination. But in this relationship with the doll there is also the mischief of a little girl who explores the world of adults, who communicates with an inanimated thing, she acts like an adult and builds her personality by freely expressing of her unconscious thoughts, hidden visions, also exorcising her own inner monsters.

A strong connection that grows over time: time after time, the first doll is replaced by an other one with the features of an adult woman that becomes a model to imitate. So the doll can become for the adult, men and women as well, an object to pour on their love, something that fills their emotional emptiness...or paradoxically to go back to childhood, even if now they are adults!

 “The clash between real and unreal creates a totally surreal world. The inspiration simply had to be transcribed into a definitive formula. Thus was born the doll’s room, a flowery perfume, falsely innocent, softly sensual, bursting like a whispered scream. ”

- Antonio Alessandria, the perfumer.

Fragrance Notes: 
  • Top: Mandarin, bergamot, milky notes
  • Heart: Hawthorn, orange blossom, powdery notes, ylang ylang
  • Base: Sandalwood, vanilla, tonka bean, musky notes
IL Capriccio Del Maestro
IL Capriccio Del Maestro
IL Capriccio Del Maestro
IL Capriccio Del Maestro
IL Capriccio Del Maestro
IL Capriccio Del Maestro
IL Capriccio Del Maestro
IL Capriccio Del Maestro
IL Capriccio Del Maestro
IL Capriccio Del Maestro
IL Capriccio Del Maestro
IL Capriccio Del Maestro
Nobile 1942

IL Capriccio Del Maestro

$328.00
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Il Capriccio del Maestro di NOBILE 1942 is dedicated to the figure of one of the most important composers that Italian Music has ever had: Giacomo Puccini.

Olfactive Family: ORIENTAL

The perfume reveals Giacomo's private sphere, highlighting his personality. “He loved dissolute companies. Lazy and brilliant, neurotic, arrogant and shy, goliardic and primitive: he loved being in company and, at the same time, he needed loneliness; he was bonded almost in a morbid way to the mists of his lake of Lucca, he loved the raids, the breaking of the quiet of a wild nature, the gunshots, the cursing and the cursing of his people - and yet he dreamed of escaping as soon as possible, going to Milan, where he could make a career , where fame and glory, wealth and beautiful women awaited him. Women and cigars, a constancy of his life ... Sensitive and cynical, extroverted and distressed (sudden and noisy joy, often boorish, followed by melancholy and restlessness, gloom), imaginative but discontinuous worker, willing to to love and suffer with a shameless passion, almost always above the rules, like his female characters, but shamelessly a liar, boastful and infidel. This was Giacomo Puccini. " From “Puccini e le sue donne“ by Augusto Benemeglio. An oriental and spicy fragrance whose notes apostrophe the character of the Master.

Orchid: sensual and persuasive; Rhum and Patchouli to highlight the male attitude of "tombeur de Femmes".Spices that highlight his burlesque and goliardic character; Tobacco and honey to underline his real whim: Women and Cigars.

The Exceptional Collection

Fragrance Notes: 

  • Top notes: Cinnamon, rum, orchid, spicy notes
  • Heart notes: tonka bean, honey, resinoid benzoin, tobacco
  • Base notes: Vanilla, white musk, labdanum, coumarin, patchouli.

Nose: Moellhausen

Perfume Code: evening Perfume Mood: exuberant and charming

Shamal
Nobile 1942

Shamal

$321.00
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Shamal is dedicated to perseverance. 
The inspiration came from the character of the pearls fisherman. 
There is a moment in the desert that leaves observer totally owe: when the night becomes day and the sky take on shades from black to blue. Breathtaking. 
The pearls fisherman is lying on his back and enjoying his view of the starry sky. It is his watch as lookout, pirates could attack in every moment, raiding this slender boat loaded with pears and cloths, undoing all the hard work of transporting the goods from Oman to Yemen. 
The fisherman is lulled by the lapping of the waves. A sound that takes him back to his childhood, caressed by the trade wind blowing, the Shamal, the wind that has relentlessly - over many years - shaped the dunes in the deserts. As the Shamal blows, among aromatic notes, gentle yet unceasing, bringing with it the fragrance of dates mixed with burning incense, the pearl fisherman lies there blissfully, tasting an apple as he resists that temptress, sleep. 
He lapses to daydreaming, relieving his body of the day’s tiredness and reviving his spirit.
Olfactive family: WOODY INCENSE
Fragrance Notes: 
  • Top notes: incense, aromatic notes, apple 
  • Heart notes, amber, velvet accord. 
  • Base notes: woody notes, musk
Nose: Christian Carbonnel
Perfume Code: evening
1001
1001
1001
1001
Nobile 1942

1001

$328.00
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1..1 is dedicated to wisdom. 
The inspiration came from the the character of Sherazade, the heroine of Arabian nights, who managed to enchant the men who wanted to kill her with 1001 tales. This story fascinate entire generations who share the idea of the strength and seduction by words. 
Ingredients recall Orient with its colours, smells and tastes. The main player is Papyrus, the first writing medium, blendend with brigt top notes of ginger, elemi and red tea reflecting the patience and the optimism of this woman who tells wonderful stories, night after night. Heart notes are full of curcuma absolute and saffron, two spieces that were used to embellish the writing and evoke “gold”, with a carnal Turkish rose, that gives charisma. The dry down is made of leather because papyrus were kept in leather tubes called “capse”. 

The evolution of the fragrance need of its time because it’s like when you start reading a book and you feel involved in the story time after time. Pages after pages. Writing and reading are magic, introduce you into fantastic words and let you make fantastic journey, such as the progenitor of Italian writers (and language) Dante Alighieri. For this reason we write the first verses of ”La Divina Commedia” on the box, a tribute to the most important imaginary trip. 
Olfactive family: ORIENTAL SPICY
Fragrance Notes: 

  • Top notes: Bergamot, red tea, ginger, elemi, pink pepper 
  • Heart notes: papyrus, Turkish rose essence, jasmine absolute, iris, saffron curcuma ansolute. 
  • Base notes: patchouli, sandalwood, amber, vanilla, musk

Nose: Luca Maffei
Perfume Code: evening
Perfume Mood: wisdom
Sandlo Nobile
Sandlo Nobile
Sandlo Nobile
Sandlo Nobile
Nobile 1942

Sandlo Nobile

$223.00
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The heady fragrance of spices such as saffron and cumin seeds wafts from sacks piled in the storehouse, ready to fill wagons bound for the market, and hangs in the room barely lit by the faint light of dawn.
 Immersed in the heat of the water, steam infused with essence of sandalwood forms clouds, softened by siamese benjoin. 
 Feeling our muscles relax and tensions disappear, our mind yields itself to the beauty of our experiences, affections and emotions, linked as gurgjum links the flowery iris to the precious figue tree, like a fog that envelops us in a gentle embrace, filling our nostrils with pleasure. 
A brief moment that makes us one with Mother Nature and helps us face a new day with serenity.
Olfactive family: WOODY
Fragrance Notes: 
  • Top notes: saffron, cumin
  • Heart notes: iris, gurjan balsam
  • Base notes: Siam benzoin ,white sandalwood, cedarwood. 

Nose: Henri Bergia
Perfume Code: afternoon
Perfume Mood: like a cashmere scarf, soft and enveloping
Rudis
Nobile 1942

Rudis

$321.00
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Rudis is dedicated to a great virtue: Power.
Rudis is the name given as a trophy to victorious gladiators, a wooden sword, that was a tool but also a symbol of freedom: the gladiator is not a slave anymore! 
To overcome his fear before entering the arena, gladiator drunk a cider made of dried fruit and grape. 
But why are we talking about gladiators in 21th century? Massimo Nobile thinks that today, all professionists and business people have their own battle to win. That’s why we created a fragrance that give energy for their fight, in a mental and in a physical way. The scent inspired by this object, therefore, had to simultaneously consider strength and gentleness, battle and freedom, life and death, virility and weakness. 
The box is precious: only five artisans in the world can work leather in this way. 
The process of realization takes long time and it starts with taking leather and soaking it. Then, with a piece of wood with the same shape of the bottle used ad a guide, they take the still wet leather and wrap the first side around wood and bake it in a kiln. The next step is to soak leather again, following the same process for each side and curves that form the box. After this intricate process, you cannot see the joints or stitches, and leather is hard like a piece of wood. In the last step, it is lacquered and cut into salami- like slices before being worked internally. The box can only be closed in one way, depending on how it was cut. There are two points which form a guide to close the lid correctly.
Olfactive Family: WOODY LEATHER
Fragrance Notes: 
  • Top notes: bergamot, dried fruits, fruity notes, wine. 
  • Heart Notes: rose, geranium, cloves, saffron, cedarwood. 
  • Base notes: leather, patchouli, vetiver, incense, musk, helicrysium
2015 FIFI AWARDS WINNER IN RUSSIA

Nose: Antonio Alessandria