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have you ever wanted to smell like you’ve been sitting inside of a 1953 Mille Miglia race car?  the smell of rolling into an italian pit stop with people screaming, putting on new tires, wearing leather gloves and the driver jumping in and out of the racing seat.  the smell of falling asleep inside a vintage 1960s alfa romeo parked on a side street of old Italy.  SMN Nostalgia recreates that feeling, in a fragrance!

santa maria novella have truly made a fragrance which is a masterpiece.  the first time i smelled this, it was with the knowledge that they have tried to recreate the smell of a vintage race car—something which i thought was basically impossible.  i didn’t, at first, understand the fragrance.  i thought it smelled like shoe polish, and then 15 minutes after applying—the most wonderful combination of leather, vanilla, and dare i say—liquid nostalgia rolled through my senses.  it truly does smell like a vintage sports car.

this stuff isn’t exactly cheap (even though the bottle borders on the verge of tacky….although i’ve actually started to like the bottle after spending some time with it in my wardrobe)….it’ll run you around $110.  If you’d like to order a bottle, you may do so at Lafco, which is the official US distributor of SMN fragrances. well worth it, and completely unique.  if you can’t own a vintage race car, you might as well smell like one!