Lakeside Hour

Our Impression of Au Lac for Women - by D Italie

On the Isolino, a tiny island in the heart of Lake Maggiore in Northern Italy, lies an elegant nineteenth-century villa surrounded by a luscious garden amid placid lake waters. It was in the golden years of the early 20th century that this garden was the setting for one of the most intriguing love stories, that of the ravishing princess Vittoria Colonna and Umberto Boccioni, the vibrant young painter who was among the founders of the artistic movement of Futurism. Theirs was a short, intense love affair that embodied the cultural upheaval of the times and the encounter of two aesthetic concepts: the tradition of romanticism expressed by Vittoria, whose romantic spirit led her to create the beautiful garden on the shores of Lake Maggiore, and the iconoclast and avant-garde artist Boccioni, whose paintings and sculptures express the dynamic innovation at the heart of Futurism. Nearly a century later, when the time arrived for Eau d’Italie to create its first feminine floral fragrance, there was no doubt: it had to be a real Italian floral with the qualities of a classic, but with an innovative contemporary twist: an avant-garde romantic flora