Doris Brugger spent over a decade working with her close friend and mentor, the late Gianni Versace. Following his untimely death, she left her duties heading up the Versace boutique in Germany and found herself traveling the world. In Sri Lanka, she met a woman who taught her the secrets of using natural, aromatic oils in body products and Brugger was hooked. Dorissima released its first scented body oil in 2003, which lead to a meeting with Italian perfumer Lorenzo Villoresi. Inspired by her meeting with the master perfumer, Brugger returned to Germany and set out to create fragrances based on her all-natural beauty line. The fragrances take their names from Hermann Hesses Narziss und Goldmund, a pseudo-Medieval tale about an abbot and his worldly student.
