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An experience that begins with the nose and ends on a sheet of paper. A journey through materials, memory and writing — and, at the end, a letter that carries a perfume that did not exist before you.
Stop. Begin here — from what you feel before you understand it.
A perfume arrives before thought. We recognise it, often, before we know where it comes from; and in that instant something happens that words always chase a step behind.
Pineider has always worked in this space: between what is felt and what is written. Paper is where that distance closes. Where a sensation, to truly exist, must find a form.
This experience is born there: in the moment before the word, when there is still only a scent, and a hand that does not yet know what it will write.
Five dimensions woven through the workshop: scent, sight, listening, writing, signature.
Fragrances that accompany every chapter of the story, reaching memory before thought.
Works and colours that give body to what is perceived, chapter after chapter.
A discreet music that accompanies the path without ever overpowering it.
Posture, breath, the first gestures with the nib, up to a personal letter — dedicated to yourself.
The fragrances encountered are chosen and blended: a perfume that is yours alone is born.
The starting point is the city itself — its light, its paper, its history of artisans and travellers.
A material that does not describe: it welcomes. The place where a thought ceases to be yours alone.
An idea taking shape. The colour a thought chooses to become visible.
Pineider was born to accompany those who left. The movement — real or inner — that every letter holds.
The quietest chapter: what remains, even when the rest is forgotten.
A nib, a Pineider sheet, a brief guided moment of breath and posture. Then writing: not an exercise, a real letter, dedicated to yourself.
Among the fragrances encountered along the way, you choose those closest to what you have just written. They are blended. A perfume is born that did not exist an hour before — and it is yours alone.
What remains
You do not leave this experience with one more technique.
You leave with a handwritten letter, sealed in a Pineider envelope, and a perfume composed by the one who wrote it; the only one who will ever truly recognise it, every time they meet it again.
What remains is a different way of looking at a gesture rarely made: stopping, and writing something that is only for yourself.
A workshop of many hands, where scent and writing remain two distinct voices that intertwine without blending.
P. Pineider
Pineider was born in Florence as a place of paper, writing and leather — materials that accompany a thought and keep it through time, and of the people who carried them around the world.
Before the page, however, there is always something that asks to be told: a feeling, a memory, a scent we have not yet named.
This workshop makes that passage explicit: a new way into the Pineider world, starting not from writing, but from what precedes it.
E. Ephèmera
Ephèmera was born in Florence as a Scent Identity Design studio: it translates identities, stories and memories into bespoke fragrances, for brands and for people.
Their work comes from a simple idea: a perfume communicates before words, and can become the most direct language to tell who we are.
In this journey they bring the same care: every fragrance encountered is born in their studio, designed not to astonish, but to accompany, chapter after chapter, the gesture of writing.
C. Caterina Scardillo
Caterina Scardillo is a Florentine calligrapher and lettering artist. Specialised in palaeography, she has deepened over the years her passion for the universe of medieval letters and manuscripts.
Since 2022 she has collaborated with Pineider on multiple projects, workshops and events.
In her courses she always starts from the same principle: the gesture, the breath, a more conscious way of using writing. In this path too she guides participants from the first stroke with the nib to the personal letter.
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Practical information
How to join.
Where: Pineider Boutique, Florence
Duration: 2 hours
Dates & times: First date: 26 September 2026. Further dates TBC
Participants: Max 10 people
Language: Italian and English
Price: 290€
Kit for use during the workshop:
• Pineider paper and envelope
• Fountain pen
• Personal letter
• Custom perfume composition
There is no way of knowing, beforehand, what you will write. That is precisely the point.
A perfume, a blank sheet, and two hours to discover it.
A workshop of many hands, where scent and writing remain two distinct voices that intertwine without blending.
Pineider × Ephèmera × Caterina Scardillo.
You will also be able to have preview access to all the news and future promotions from the Pineider world. *The welcome code cannot be combined with other ongoing promotions.