Nobile 1942 - Petals And Swords

Virtues but also vices, courage and vulnerability: this is the inspiration for the Nobile 1942 Premium collection, which aims to tell the many nuances of the human soul through the olfactory portraits that led to the creation of the fragrances that make up the collection. If Rudis is dedicated to strength, Shamal to perseverance, and Malia to the art of knowing how to seduce—a vice that, in the end, is actually a virtue—the new fragrance Petali e Spade is dedicated to fragility, not as a synonym for weakness, but as the true inner strength within each of us. It is precisely recognizing one's own vulnerability and living it consciously that ignites our inner flame, the one that leads us to innovation, change, and full self-knowledge. And it is precisely this awareness of the vulnerability of things and the fragility of our emotions that makes us ready for anything. This powerful delicacy outlines the olfactory profile of a woman behind whose apparent fragility hides a fearless soul and a graceful ferocity. The inspiration comes from Xiao Mei, the blind dancer who is the protagonist of the film “House of Flying Daggers.” Suspected of being the missing daughter of the leader of the eponymous sect, she is imprisoned by the emperor’s soldiers and later helped to escape by the captain of the militia. Her dance of the water sleeves (or “the echoing dance step”), which almost defies the laws of gravity, is pure visual ecstasy but also the ultimate expression of her inner strength that surprises us all. These movements, although delicate, are actually endowed with explosive poise. A hypnotic dance can thus transform into a fight to the death, a branch become a deadly dagger, a bamboo forest an insidious prison as well as an improvised weapon. Petali e Spade is dedicated to all the Xiao Meis of the world: inside every woman there is a warrior, who walks with a firm step even on paths she does not know, who bends but does not break under the difficulties of life, who prefers to walk alone in the dark rather than in someone else’s shadow.