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dpk161speagoessenda – :
I adore this perfume. Uplifting, pure energy. Though for me its difficult to describe how exactly does it smell (like joy 🙂
незем – :
Fragrance Review For Marescialla
Santa Maria Novella
Top Notes
Citrus Water Cress Nutmeg
Middle Notes
Rose Cedar Wood
Base Notes
Patchouli Oak Moss Sandalwood
Like a fine Italian wine, this fragrance from 1828, can only get better with age. This is a luxuriant chypre and rose perfume, unisex, continental but Middle Eastern-Turkish at the same time. It’s a 19th century noble family from northern Italy who reside in a stone castle surrounded by deep forests and mountains at the part where the Swiss Alps meets the border of Italy. This cologne is still a commercial hit and at the Santa Maria Novella fragrance house in Italy one of the more attractive autumn scents. I found this fragrance to be inspiring and beautiful. It has a simple arrangement of notes: a citrusy bergamot orange and lemon with spices of nutmeg and a watercress, fresh and spicy as it begins, a middle stage performance of beautiful soapy rose and woodsy cedar and a dry down of patchouli herb, sandalwood and moss. This is a chypre no doubt but rather simplified as a chypre. It’s a no nonsense and very straightforward elegant chypre.
The fragrance lasts for hours as most chypres tend to do and has super projection and sillage. The cologne has a unisex body and can be effectively worn by both sexes but it’s best worn in fall and winter. It’s a dark Gothic Romantic scent, with an operatic twist. It reminds me of Donizetti’s bel canto opera Lucia di Lammermoor in which the soprano character of Lucia is a woman who is forced to marry a man she does not love, stabs him to death on his wedding night and makes quite a Mad Scene in her blood stained wedding dress. The enchantment Gothic castles, of a dark green forest with pines, cedars, cypress and dark mysterious groves, and an autumnal melancholia sets in when you wear this perfume and allow your fertile imagination to run wild.
If you like ouds and chypres this is more or less like a beginner’s chypre. The woods are never too much. Everything is so well balanced. The right amount of cedar, the right amount of sandalwood, spices and green notes, and a unisex rose, the kind of rose that you can enjoy as a man who has enjoy rose notes in men’s colognes like Chanel Egoiste or a Turkish rose in Arabic rose oil. There is a kind of Moorish spirit to this perfume. It smells of a long ago time perhaps even outside of Italy – Spain under the Moors in Alhambra. Very sophisticated and regal. As a love of chypres the best thing about it is the note of oak moss. Oak moss is becoming rarer and rarer in today’s fragrance industry and I hope to never see it completely go extinct. This is a green masterful moss that is so evocative of moss on trees in the depths of forests that it makes me want to cry. So beautiful.
SwawIntaste – :
This is my “desert island” fragrance. The one I cannot do without having in my life. Want to time travel back to the 1800’s? Just wear this. It is indescribable. The notes description doesn’t do it justice. It’s not old lady perfume, it’s not a flower bomb. It’s a lovely old sachet found tucked away in an old dresser drawer full of linens, in an old Italian castle somewhere. Erilika said it best. I want to breathe this, sleep in it, have everything I live with, smell like this. Full bottle worthy, absolutely.
kanivect – :
My first wearing from a small decant I recently acquired. Interesting indeed! At first I was thrown, as everything kind of comes at you all at once…you have to wait a minute for your brain to figure it all out. Very herbaceous, yet there is a brighter smokiness to it as well. Very spicy and bright woody. This stuff needs to be worn on a day when you can really think about it, but not the office. Ends up a dense, earthy and herbaceous patchouli. Thumbs up!
Tatsy33506 – :
Santa Maria Novella Marescialla.
Un incroyable parfum tout droit sorti du XIXe siècle, Une ouverture stupéfiante, une eau d’apothicaire, herbeuse, quelque chose que l’on pourrait sentir dans de vieilles demeures de maître, avec parquets, lambris et la poussière dansant dans la lumière des grandes baies qui donnent sur le parc…
Puis tout cela s’adoucit, se sucre aussi, et se mue en l’odeur un peu crémeuse des produits de rasage d’un barbier des beaux quartiers.
Chef d’oeuvre dans cette jungle contemporaine de clones, de sucrailles de boites de nuit, sans souffle, sans histoire.
Faites une pause, respirez, méditez dans la lente coulée du temps.
Rare. Magnifique. 10 / 10
pld266JeomiWogkig – :
Glory be!
This gem opens up with a very assertive Middle Eastern vibe, almost oudhish. This is a woody spicy stage.
The dry down becomes sweet-woody-softer spice with that shift shaper quality someone mentioned. It morphs from soft, dry floral to almost animalic to woods and everything in between.
It’s magical.
Note: This fragrance contains oakmoss which is being restricted in Europe effective spring 2015. This is making everyone across the pond nuts. What this means for Marescialla is a (no!!!) reformulation. Oakmoss is one of elusive notes coveted in the older, richer fragrances. Who knows if they’ll be able to find a true substitute. In short, if you can find Marescialla, buy it now, before reformulation purgatory or extinction.
defffpro – :
The other reviews are spot on: This is a most unusual, old-worldly, spooky fragrance, indeed. It smells old, woody, with some mold/rot. It is extraordinarily natural, yet eerie. I’d say it’s a unisex scent. There is this deep sort of shaving cream scent mixed in there with mildewy wood, spices and history. In the dry down it becomes is very smooth and amazing, the longer it lingers the more I adore it. I become more fond of Marescialla every time I wear it.
My moms opinion was that it smells musty, and like something from Williamsburg, Massachusetts. lolz.
This scent is extremely long lasting. A single spray lasts a really long time and still has at least a moderate silage a week later.
Preppy, teenage girls who tend to like fougere, gourmand, cheap sort of scents would probably hate this . . intensely. But if you have open taste to whacky/weird fragrances, you’ll like this.
9.5/10
levega – :
Most intriguing, uncommon, old-worldy, ambiental, introspective fragrance.
Smell of abandoned mansion in the outskirts; green moldy wallpapers reminding of long lost luxurious leisure, dusty antique furniture, huge windows with torn curtains opened to the surrounding trees and forest breeze, dry leaves and tall grass, a large pot in the kitchen, steel rusty wire bed, remains of someone’s muddy footprints on the parquetry… It’s all here – old, deserted, almost dead… and strangely beautiful.
Herbal liqueur opening announces further notes interwining, developing: dust, mold, distant breeze of citrus, soil, dry herbs. Drydown: serene freshness of clean bed linen. Colour scale: grey, moldy green, dark brown, golden and lemon yellow, to the purest white. Bewitching.
altestCooli – :
This is a difficult, sophisticated perfume (even though it’s officially an edt) of outstanding quality. It starts with outlandishly realistic concoction of dried Mediterranean herbs that evoke the image of deserted catacombs, caves, cellars and museum kitchens. Enchanting and twisted. Then it slowly moves on to a more palatable mixture of rottening or dried tangerines and ripe oranges. After a few hours it becomes a completely elegant day-to-day frag perfectly suitable for an Italian solicitor getting out of her/his medieaval house to go to work in an oak-panelled office in a different Reneissance building. Sillage is great and so is longevity. Great quality, incredible, high-brow fragrance. Totally thumbs up!
Namek – :
This is a love/hate fragrance without a doubt, and I’m one of its big fans. I don’t find the above note pyramid accurate, however. This is a MUCH spicier and intense fragrance than it depicts.
Marescialla is a major shape-shifter – shifting from brutally spicy in the beginning to creamy and aromatic in the drydown.
The first half hour is literally an attack on your sinuses. We’re talking head-on crash of what smells like Bay Rum blended with an overwhelming dose of nutmeg and mace. It’s truly brutal, astringent and caustic. I love this stage, but many will throw in the towel by this time.
After that, Marescialla (on my skin at least) becomes almost a barbershop scent. It smells like a very dark and spicy shaving cream, and is very unusual. Patchouli becomes a dominant note the longer you wear this, and it blends perfectly with the shaving cream aura. This is old school in the extreme.
Sillage is fierce and staying power is all day, so a mere 5 or 6 drops from the splash bottle is enough to fill a room with the scent of Marescialla, and all day too.
I agree with those who say this smells much more like a man’s fragrance than a woman’s one. SMN labels it as unisex, but I have a hard time imagining any but the most daring women wanting to smell like this.
MY RATING: 9/10
geka70 – :
I wanna roll on bed linens scented with Marescialla; I wanna read all my favourite books sprayed with Marescialla.
Not sweet, not foral, not even perfume-like.
This is the juice of a world of yesterday.
This is history.