Santa Maria Novella

DESCRIPTION

Carta d’Armenia is paper soaked in a mixture of infusions of resins and oriental spices. It burns without flame and the vapor purifies the air by eliminating bad odors such as smoke and cooking smells. Developed in 1885, our renown Carta d’Armenia is one of the last remaining so called Medicinal Papers.

These sanitizing deodorants were widely used from the 17th to early 20th centuries to treat various respiratory ailments as well as acting as a digestive, a healer and a disinfectant. Its purifying smoke is said to dispel any type of adversity or negativity from any of environment.