Carthusia

Selecting the purest natural ingredients from its flower-filled home on the island of Capri and from some of Italy’s other most scent-rich locales, Carthusia makes some of its country’s most admired fragrances. The story goes that in 1948, the Carthusian Monastery discovered perfume formulas written by a 14th century local monk who had accidentally created Capri’s first fragrance from a bouquet of flowers he had gathered for Queen Giovanna d’Angio. Whatever the truth, the house today makes everything by hand and produces all of its exquisite perfumes in limited quantities.