Notte Wax Candle

Considered the oldest pharmacy in the world, Officina Profumo-Farmaceutica di Santa Maria Novella was founded in 1221 as a Dominican friars convent when the friars were granted the use of a small church just outside the city walls where they cultivated a botanical garden of herbs and plants to craft medicines, ointments and balms.

Notte, meaning night, completes the Candele delle Ore collection, a series of four candles structured around the hours of the day: morning light, midday heat, evening warmth and night's depth. Notte draws on incense and dark woods, referencing aromatic materials burned in the convent of Santa Maria Novella during evening prayer and nocturnal ceremonies in the early Dominican tradition.