Vespro 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.

Vespro, from the Latin vesper, is the third in the Candele delle Ore collection, a series of four scented candles structured around the hours of the day. It draws on woody and amber materials to capture fading light and cooling air, the transition between the warmth of the day and the stillness of night.