Laboratorio Olfattivo and the Poetics of the Everyday
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Born in Italy and shaped by instinct rather than formula, Laboratorio Olfattivo is a brand that rejects the rigidity of traditional perfumery.
Under the creative direction of Roberto Drago, this is a house where inspiration strikes freely—where raw materials are not just ingredients but starting points for stories. Co-founder Daniela Caon ensures that each object carries the mark of intention, from the color of the label to the curve of a bottle. The result is a quiet kind of luxury—one not built on flash, but on texture, memory, and mood. At the heart of it all lies a principle that seems simple: perfume is emotion, suspended.
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The Home & Body Line: Scent as Surrounding
Laboratorio Olfattivo’s Home & Body collection isn’t interested in being merely pleasant. These are not accessories; they’re atmosphere. The line spans room diffusers, sprays, refills, candles, liquid soaps, body lotions, shower gels, fabric sprays, and minimalist accessories—each object crafted with the same respect for olfactive storytelling as their fine fragrances.
What sets these products apart is not just the quality of their materials—natural oils, handmade waxes, botanical infusions—but the way they inhabit space. A room spray becomes a kind of punctuation; a soap, a gesture; a diffuser, a quiet, continuous breath.
Below are a few selections we lived with—products that didn’t just sit on the shelf, but gently altered the rhythm of our days.
Che Fico! Room Spray: Fig, Unfiltered
There’s nothing coy about Che Fico!—its name might be playful, but the fragrance it delivers is strikingly honest. The opening is bright and green, almost shockingly so: fig leaves, galbanum, and bay oil hit with a bracing freshness that’s alive and just a touch wild. Unlike many fig scents that lean into sun-soaked sweetness, Che Fico! stays close to the tree—bark, leaf, and all.
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Then comes the heart: blackcurrant, petitgrain, more fig. A creamy, vegetal sweetness seeps in, like late afternoon light on warm stone. But it never drifts into gourmand territory. This is a fig that remembers its roots.
Spray it in a room, and suddenly you're in a garden—not an imagined one, but one you’ve walked through barefoot.
Zen-Zero Diffuser: Spice and Stillness
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Some diffusers scent a room; Zen-Zero seems to shape its tempo. With top notes of ginger, followed by dry cedar and supple sandalwood, this is a fragrance that begins in clarity and ends in calm. The name nods to a kind of Eastern minimalism, but the scent avoids clichés. It's not spa-like or soft-focus—it’s purposeful.
The diffusion is slow, steady, and ever so slightly addictive. After a few days, it becomes part of the architecture. You might not smell it every second, but you’d notice its absence. Like breathwork in a yoga practice, Zen-Zero reorients the space—and you inside it.
Arancio in Fiore Liquid Soap: The Sunlit Touch
Few products balance utility and beauty like Arancio in Fiore. This liquid soap, made with olive and coconut oils using an eco-friendly saponification process, turns the act of hand washing into a kind of sensory meditation. The scent is unmistakably Mediterranean: orange blossom, neroli, tangerine, flanked by a herbaceous chorus of myrtle, rosemary, and lavender.
The texture is fluid but rich, rinsing clean but leaving a whisper of perfume behind—a creamy, floral trace that lingers just long enough to soften the next moment. It doesn’t scream luxury, but it doesn’t need to. It simply feels right.
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Inspired: A Study in Sillage and Song
If Laboratorio Olfattivo’s home fragrances were a song, they might hum in the key of "Slip Away" by Perfume Genius. Not because of any overt similarity, but because of what the music and these scents quietly share: a sense of presence that unfolds over time. Che Fico! bursts into the room with the green pulse of fig leaves and sunlight; Zen-Zero curls slowly into the corners with the warmth of wood and spice. Neither overstay. Neither fade too fast. Like verses in a well-paced track, they reveal themselves in layers.
Perfume Genius sings of escape, of slipping the constraints of the body or a space—or even a version of the self. And that’s what these fragrances do in their own gentle way. They alter a room’s atmosphere just enough to shift your state of mind. Without spectacle. Without artifice. Just scent as mood, as memory, as invitation.
In a world that moves too quickly and asks too much, Laboratorio Olfattivo offers a kind of stillness. A reframing. A quiet rebellion in the form of perfumed air.
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