The Story
Why it exists.
The beginning
Camicia 113 arrived in 2016 from the house of Gianfranco Ferré. The fragrance was composed by Nathalie Lorson, and the name itself, Camicia, is Italian for shirt. The composition reads as an olfactory study of that garment: clean, tailored, deliberate. The 113 refers to a specific shirt model from the house's archive, shirt model 113, a 1982 creation inspired by the corolla of a calla lily and made of brushed silk, silk satin and taffeta. That garment logic carries directly into the bottle. Rather than dressing the scent in ornament, Lorson treated the perfume the way Ferré treated cloth, building from structure outward. The cotton flower accord, the brushed silk warmth, the crisp white undertone in the drydown, all of it points back to a single piece of fabric held at arm's length.
Cotton flower carries a softer, more tactile sensation than the sharper notes usually used to suggest freshness in clean florals. It feels less like a crisp surface and more like something pressed against the skin, with a faint warmth underneath that keeps it from reading as cold. Combined with red berry sorbet in the opening, a note that reads chilled and fleeting rather than syrupy, the fragrance holds an unusual tension between cool and intimate. The berry lifts on first spray, bright and slightly tart, then steps aside as the cotton flower takes hold, and the two never fully fuse.
The evolution
The opening belongs to the sorbet. Red berry arrives cold, sweet, and slightly tart, the kind of burst that registers as a smile rather than a statement. Sicilian bergamot cuts through it with a clean citrus edge, and magnolia lifts the whole thing into something airier, more luminous, almost sunlit before it settles. As the fruit fades into the background, cotton flower takes over alongside a peony that stays restrained, never crossing into soapiness or losing its composure. Jasmine threads through the heart quietly, adding a skin-like warmth that grounds the cotton's coolness and keeps the composition from drifting into something purely white and abstract. The middle stretch smells like warm laundry, specifically the kind that still holds a trace of the day it was washed, soft and familiar rather than freshly sharp. Later in the wear, iris begins to surface.
Cultural impact
Camicia 113 sits comfortably in the world of quiet Italian fragrance, the kind of composition that rewards attention rather than demanding it. It belongs to a category of scents designed to feel like an extension of personal style rather than a separate accessory, perfumes that prioritize tailoring over statement and clarity over abundance. Where many modern florals build complexity through sheer note count, Camicia 113 does the opposite: it builds clarity through subtraction.
