Any perfume house that traces its recipes back to a 16th century chemist can probably boast a fair bit of knowledge when it comes to developing timeless fragrances. Despite this storied past — not to mention its centuries of built-in R&D — Farmacia SS. Annunziata of Florence, Italy is woefully under-appreciated in North America.
This year, its perfumers set out to change that, expanding on their line of classic scents with ISOS, a men’s fragrance notable mostly for its bracing, pepper-loaded top notes which elevate that spice to dizzying heights.
