Scientific Garden
THE HOME OF SUSTAINABLE BEAUTY
Experience our open-air lab, a place of inspiration and beauty inside the Davines Village.
A lush garden of 3,000 square metres frames the architecture of the Davines Village in Parma.Cultivated following the principles of organic farming and biodiversity, the Scientific Garden is not only an emblem of the values of beauty and sustainability that we have always advocated, it is also a true place of inspiration and study.
Here our researchers investigate the properties of plants, new essences and ingredients behind professional formulas created in Davines laboratories.
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The Scientific Garden gives us the possibility of having a direct contact with nature and its infinite resources, plants are a source of study and inspiration for our daily and future work.
Davide Bollati
Chairman of Davines Group
Scientific Garden
THE HOME OF SUSTAINABLE BEAUTY
Experience our open-air lab, a place of inspiration and beauty inside the Davines Village.
A lush garden of 3,000 square metres frames the architecture of the Davines Village in Parma.Cultivated following the principles of organic farming and biodiversity, the Scientific Garden is not only an emblem of the values of beauty and sustainability that we have always advocated, it is also a true place of inspiration and study.
Here our researchers investigate the properties of plants, new essences and ingredients behind professional formulas created in Davines laboratories.
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The Scientific Garden gives us the possibility of having a direct contact with nature and its infinite resources, plants are a source of study and inspiration for our daily and future work.
Davide Bollati
Chairman of Davines Group
From plant to product: circular research
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The scientific garden embodies Davines philosophy. It combines - and elevates - the two complementary forces that drive us: scientific background and humanistic vocation. This way, a model of circular research that is unique in the world comes to life.
Carlotta Del Canale
Head of Techincal Marketing
From plant to product: circular research
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The scientific garden embodies Davines philosophy. It combines - and elevates - the two complementary forces that drive us: scientific background and humanistic vocation. This way, a model of circular research that is unique in the world comes to life.
Carlotta Del Canale
Head of Techincal Marketing
Artichoke
Artichoke extract is known for its purifying properties. This is why we grow artichokes in our garden and use them in the Naturaltech Detoxifying line that takes care of scalp and hair stressed by external environmental factors.
Plant
Artichoke
Agastache
The extract of Agastache Mexicana has a strong anti-inflammatory effect with calming properties.
Davines uses Agastache for its super-active ingredient contained in the line for brittle hair Naturaltech Energizing, a line forumlated for fragile, thinning hair.
ENERGIZING Superactive
Plant
Agastache Mexicana
Echinacea
Native Americans considered echinacea a sacred plant for its numerous healing properties. Davines grows it in the Scientific Garden and uses it in the Naturaltech Well-being line: echinacea extract is rich in polyphenols known for their antioxidant properties.
WELLBEING Conditioner
Plant
Echinacea
Lemon
Freshly-scented lemon trees grow in our bistrot and in the Scientific Garden.
The phytoceuticals extracted from this plant are used in our Naturaltech Rebalancing shampoo, ideal to control an excessive sebum production.
REBALANCING Shampoo
Plant
Lemon
Artichoke
Artichoke extract is known for its purifying properties. This is why we grow artichokes in our garden and use them in the Naturaltech Detoxifying line that takes care of scalp and hair stressed by external environmental factors.
DETOXIFYING Scrub Shampoo
Plant
Artichoke
Agastache
The extract of Agastache Mexicana has a strong anti-inflammatory effect with calming properties. Davines uses Agastache for its super-active ingredient contained in the line for brittle hair Naturaltech Energizing, a line forumlated for fragile, thinning hair.
ENERGIZING Superactive
Plant
Agastache Mexicana
Echinacea
Native Americans considered echinacea a sacred plant for its numerous healing properties. Davines grows it in the Scientific Garden and uses it in the
WELLBEING Conditioner
Plant
Echinacea
Lemon
Freshly-scented lemon trees grow in our bistrot and in the Scientific Garden.
The phytoceuticals extracted from this plant are used in our Naturaltech Rebalancing shampoo, ideal to control an excessive sebum production.
REBALANCING Shampoo
Plant
Lemon
Design: an encounter of scienceand humanism
The design of the Scientific Garden was entrusted to the London landscape architecture studio del Buono Gazerwitz, and drawing inspiration both from the Emilia-Romagna region's rural landscape that surrounds The Village, and from the sixteenth century geometry of the Garden of Simples of Padua (a UNESCO World Heritage site), the origin of all botanical gardens in the world. The garden geometry - a circular plan with an inscribed square - is reminiscent of the Vitruvian Man and subdivides sections dedicated to different botanical types.
The Scientific Garden plants
Plants have been selected according to the scientific properties useful to Davines Research and Development laboratoryor to the wellbeing of staff. The Scientific Garden is indeed both a place of research, and a natural space one can enter to enjoy the beneficial effects deriving from contact with green.
- Garden of aromatic plants: Host to basil, parsley, coriander, thyme and more. Some of these plants are used for cooking in our Bistrot.
- Garden of medicinal plants: It contains the plants present in our formulas like Echinacea, Agastache Mexicana, Mirabilis Jalapa.
- Garden of tinting plants: It hosts the plants used to produce natural colourants.
- Garden of perfumed plants: It is home to marvellous flowering plants and a wide variety of roses, including Boscobel, Vanessa Bell, Winchester Cathedral, Darcey Bussel, Munstead Wood, Buff Beauty and Wildeve.
Greenhouse
Our Greenhouse, designed and manufactured in England with the aim of containing species that would not adapt to the Emilia Romagna climate, but are useful for laboratory research. The central part of the Greenhouse will feature an orangery, for citrus fruit typical of the Mediterranean; and the two sides will host plants from humid tropical areas, such as banana trees, or cacti typical of dry tropical areas.
Arboretum
The Scientific Garden is surrounded by an Arboretum, a collection of trees from all over the world to represent our international community, so our cultural heritage and diversity can be symbolically present at the Davines Village.
Green Kilometre
The motorway is close to the Davines Village. So on the northern side we planted trees that can naturally counteract the emissions of cars. We are one of the promoters of the Parma Green Kilometre positive impact project.
Learn moreDesign: an encounter of scienceand humanism
The design of the Scientific Garden was entrusted to the London landscape architecture studio del Buono Gazerwitz, and drawing inspiration both from the Emilia-Romagna region's rural landscape that surrounds The Village, and from the sixteenth century geometry of the Garden of Simples of Padua (a UNESCO World Heritage site), the origin of all botanical gardens in the world. The garden geometry - a circular plan with an inscribed square - is reminiscent of the Vitruvian Man and subdivides sections dedicated to different botanical types.
The Scientific Garden plants
Plants have been selected according to the scientific properties useful to Davines Research and Development laboratoryor to the wellbeing of staff. The Scientific Garden is indeed both a place of research, and a natural space one can enter to enjoy the beneficial effects deriving from contact with green.
- Garden of aromatic plants: Host to basil, parsley, coriander, thyme and more. Some of these plants are used for cooking in our Bistrot.
- Garden of medicinal plants: It contains the plants present in our formulas like Echinacea, Agastache Mexicana, Mirabilis Jalapa.
- Garden of tinting plants: It hosts the plants used to produce natural colourants.
- Garden of perfumed plants: It is home to marvellous flowering plants and a wide variety of roses, including Boscobel, Vanessa Bell, Winchester Cathedral, Darcey Bussel, Munstead Wood, Buff Beauty and Wildeve.
Greenhouse
Our Greenhouse, designed and manufactured in England with the aim of containing species that would not adapt to the Emilia Romagna climate, but are useful for laboratory research. The central part of the Greenhouse will feature an orangery, for citrus fruit typical of the Mediterranean; and the two sides will host plants from humid tropical areas, such as banana trees, or cacti typical of dry tropical areas.
Arboretum
The Scientific Garden is surrounded by an Arboretum, a collection of trees from all over the world to represent our international community, so our cultural heritage and diversity can be symbolically present at the Davines Village.
Green Kilometre
The motorway is close to the Davines Village. So on the northern side we planted trees that can naturally counteract the emissions of cars. We are one of the promoters of the Parma Green Kilometre positive impact project.
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