Santa Maria Novella

Location
Home Fragrances
Year
2021

Case study on the rebranding of perfumes and home fragrance line, by Officina Profumo-Farmaceutica di Santa Maria Novella.

For Officina Profumo-Farmaceutica di Santa Maria Novella, Giò Forma developed a series of creative directions for a new home fragrance collection, translating scent into a visual and spatial language rooted in the history of the Florentine house.
The proposal explores three narratives: a journey through the five continents, expressed through marbled textures that bring distant botanical references into dialogue with Florence’s artisanal tradition; the four seasons, interpreted through floral compositions and shifting botanical palettes; and the four moments of the day, where architectural details from Florence and the historic Santa Maria Novella store form contemporary grotesque patterns, coloured by the changing light of the sky.
Applied across packaging, bottles and display concepts, the project extends the identity of each fragrance beyond the product itself. Custom graphics, materials and chromatic variations turn the collection into a sensorial system in which perfume, architecture, heritage and gesture become part of the same narrative.

Render of a candle in a marbled pink and orange box that opens like petals, beside a closed cream box – Santa Maria Novella Home Fragrances, 2021 – graphic design proposal
Render of pale grey diffuser boxes with arched door graphics, opened to show red-green marbled lining – Santa Maria Novella Home Fragrances, 2021 – graphic design proposalRender of the diffuser boxes with blue and green marbled lining and reeds in a glass bottle – Santa Maria Novella Home Fragrances, 2021 – graphic design proposal
Render of orange Acqua di Colonia boxes opened to reveal blue wave-patterned marbled lining – Santa Maria Novella Home Fragrances, 2021 – graphic design proposalRender of pale grey Acqua di Colonia boxes opened to reveal pink marbled lining – Santa Maria Novella Home Fragrances, 2021 – graphic design proposal
Render of a blue marbled gift box opening to hold a perfume bottle, with a reed diffuser beside it – Santa Maria Novella Home Fragrances, 2021 – graphic design proposalRender of a blue marbled desk set: tray with paper and pen, perfume bottle and diffuser – Santa Maria Novella Home Fragrances, 2021 – graphic design proposal
Moodboard for the Rosa Novella fragrance: pink peonies inside bottle silhouettes and a single rose – Santa Maria Novella Home Fragrances, 2021 – graphic design proposalRender of a Melograno bottle with crest label, beside burgundy and pink boxes in two colourways – Santa Maria Novella Home Fragrances, 2021 – graphic design proposal
Render of a candle in a marbled pink and orange box that opens like petals, beside a closed cream box – Santa Maria Novella Home Fragrances, 2021 – graphic design proposal