Monte Kush

In summer, at dusk, pure incense resin burns and flows through the breezy rooms and gardens like slow music.

The Castle of Montecucchi is a Tuscan villa hidden from the world, ringed by ancient olive groves and gardens of herbs, roses and rosemary. Royalty, bohemians, artists and intellectuals have gathered there.

Rosemary and cannabis both grow on the farm, extracted so the terpenes stay alive, and together they are balsamic and herbaceous. Omani royal green Ojari frankincense and vintage Cambodian oud are set over them, with Turkish and Damascus rose absolute of the finest provenance embracing all of it. The whole thing runs narcotic.

Extra Virgo's fragrances are formulated by H.H. Alex Postiglione, Prince Ne Min Gy of Limbin, grandson of Princess Yadana Nat Mai, Goddess of the Nine Jewels and heir to the last king of Burma. Postiglione was born in Florence and studied art history there, and spent a life cultivating a passion for plants and anthropology. All of the house's fragrances are made at the Castle of Montecucchi in Florence, chief among the family sanctuaries around the world where materials are grown and sourced.

Each one runs between seventy and eighty percent natural material, ages at least three months before blending, and cures another month before it is bottled by hand. The signature flacon is Italian crystal under a black Carrara marble cap. Continuing the family legacy passed on by Princess Yadana Nat Mai, Postiglione is involved with humanitarian and environmental projects aiding Myanmar, its natural biosphere and its people.