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Officina Profumo-Farmaceutica di Santa Maria Novella

Gift at the Gardner carries an assortment of perfumes, soaps, skincare, room fragrance, and candles by Officina Profumo-Farmaceutica di Santa Maria Novella, the world’s oldest apothecary. Started in 1221 by Dominican friars who cultivated medicinal herbs in their gardens to prepare medications, balms, and ointments for their convent’s small infirmary, Santa Maria Novella uses the same centuries-old traditions and scientific precision to create their products today. Santa Maria Novella does not test products on animals.